Departmental Analyst 9-P11 - Charitable Gaming

State of Michigan • Lansing, MI

2h

About The Position

The Michigan State Lottery is seeking a dependable, honest, motivated, and hardworking individual with a positive attitude and strong ethical standards to join their team. The Michigan State Lottery was established to generate funds for Michigan's public-school system through the sale of Lottery tickets and online sales. Profits from lottery revenue supplement state education programs. This position is responsible for researching, analyzing, and evaluating software applications, programs, and business processes for the Charitable Gaming division, including CGWP and Content Manager. This includes conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to identify and resolve issues, designing, implementing, and evaluating new applications, programs, and business processes, and making recommendations for efficiency. The role serves as a liaison with IT and program developers regarding testing, implementing program modifications, and identifying issues. Additionally, this position will conduct charity game ticket audits to verify sales and prizes paid by licensees, analyze invoices from licensed suppliers against licensee financial statements, and manage data collection and analysis for CG annual reporting and licensee financial reporting. The role also involves disseminating technical information (gambling statute, charitable gaming statute) and non-technical information (CG Annual Report) to various stakeholders including legislators, regulatory agencies, law enforcement, attorneys, licensees, and prospective licensees.

Requirements

• Possession of a bachelor's degree in any major.
• Departmental Analyst 10: One year of professional experience.
• Departmental Analyst P11: Two years of professional experience, including one year of experience equivalent to the intermediate (10) level in state service.
• Submit to an initial background check.
• Pass a pre-employment drug test.
• Provide a urine sample for a drug test within the allowed time.
• Undergo a criminal history background check.

Responsibilities

• Researching, analyzing, and evaluating software applications, programs and business processes for the Charitable Gaming division.
• Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to identify and resolve issues.
• Designing, implementing, and evaluating new applications, programs and business processes.
• Making recommendations to ensure efficiency.
• Serving as liaison with IT and program developers as it relates to testing, implementing program modifications and identifying issues.
• Conducting charity game ticket audits to verify and validate sales and prizes paid by licensees.
• Analyzing invoices submitted by licensed suppliers with financials statements reported by licensee.
• Managing data collection and analysis used in the creation of CG annual reporting, and licensee(s) financial reporting to the bureau.
• Disseminating technical information such as the gambling statute and charitable gaming statute, and non-technical information such as the CG Annual Report to legislators, city, state, and federal regulatory agencies, law enforcement agencies, attorneys, licensees, and prospective licensees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level