Duration: 3 months to start
Job Description:
General Statement of Duties:
To be responsible for fiscal/financial management functions within a state agency; to control expenditures and perform, or provide budgetary and cost control expertise for the performance of, specialized and technical budgetary and accounting activities; to plan, organize, supervise and direct the work of a staff primarily engaged in field management operations; and to do related work as required.
Supervision Received:
Works under the administrative direction of a superior with wide latitude for the exercise of initiative and independent judgement; work is subject to review for results obtained and conformance to established goals and policy
Supervision Exercised:
As required, plans, organizes, supervises and reviews the work of subordinates; reviews work in process and upon completion for accuracy and compliance with prescribed procedures and directives.
Illustrative Examples of Work Performed:
- To be responsible for fiscal/financial management functions within a state agency.
- To control expenditures and provide budgetary and cost control expertise.
- To perform specialized and technical budgetary and accounting functions.
- As required, to plan, organize, supervise and direct the work of a staff primarily engaged in fiscal management operations.
- To set overhead rates and formulate indirect cost proposals.
- To maintain accurate records of regular and overtime payroll expenditures, mileage allowances and equipment control records.
- To determine and verify balances in various agency accounts.
- To be responsible for the supervision of a central fiscal file system including accounts receivable, payroll records and accounts outstanding.
- To be responsible for the compilation, analysis and presentation of statistical and financial reports reflecting expenditures, unencumbered funds and projections of future requirements.
- To exercise administrative direction over programs that are essentially financial in nature.
- To prepare, or assist in preparing, a yearly budget and review divisional budget.
- To function in a liaison capacity between various state agencies.
- As required, to supervise subordinates engaged in departmental personnel functions.
- To do related work as required.
Required Qualifications for Appointment:
Knowledge, Skills, and Capacities:
- A thorough knowledge of fiscal/financial management practices and techniques
- A working knowledge of federal guidelines for utilizing federal grant monies
- A working knowledge of principles and practices of governmental budget formulation
- A working knowledge of the principles, practices and methods involved in maintaining records in a centralized filing system
- The ability to plan, organize, supervise and direct the work of a staff engaged in fiscal management operations
- The ability to identify pertinent information from a mass of data
- The ability to determine overhead rates and formulate indirect cost proposals
- The ability to prepare and submit special and reoccurring reports, including departmental budgets
- The ability to deal with the public and state agencies in a tactful and courteous manner; and related capacities and abilities.
Education and Experience:
Education:
- Such as may have been gained through: graduation from a college of recognized standing with specialization in Accounting, Business Administration, or Public Administration; and
- Such as may have been gained through: employment in a responsible capacity involving fiscal or business management in the private sector or with a state or governmental agency.
- Any combination of education and experience that shall be substantially equivalent to the above education and experience.
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