DWDAL Budget Specialist

State of Maryland•Baltimore City, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Division of Workforce Development and Adult Learning, DWDAL, Fiscal Team is recruiting for a vacant Agency Budget Specialist II position to join our team at our Downtown Baltimore location. The purpose of this positions is to retrieve, prepare and reconcile fiscal data for the completion of financial reports, grant projections, grant closeouts, appropriation budgets and personnel actions for the entire division and for all programs and offices within the division.

Requirements

Seven years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution.
Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and three years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution for the required experience.
Candidates may substitute graduate education from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, political science or public administration at a rate of 30 credit hours for five years of required experience.
Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Budget Officer classifications or Financial Management specialty codes in the Budgeting field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Nice To Haves

Advanced excel skills.
Experience with FARS and FMIS.
Experience with policy and procedure implementation.
Experience with FMIS requisitions and purchase order

Responsibilities

retrieve, convert, scrub, prepare and store data for reporting, invoicing, review, budgeting and projections
prepare financial reports and closeouts
prepare monthly requests and quarterly invoices
review monthly files for accuracy and trends
prepare budget requests as needed
ad hoc assignments as needed

Benefits

Our generous leave package for permanent State employees includes from ten to 25 days of annual (vacation) leave per year, depending on seniority, as well as six personal days each calendar year.
In addition, the State offers eleven paid holidays and fifteen days of sick leave per year.
We also offer paid parental leave to eligible permanent State employees to care for and nurture children within 6 months of birth or within 6 months of an adoption of a child under 6 years of age.
Our leave policies also adhere to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Maryland State employees are eligible for participation in a contributory defined benefit pension plan in which they are vested after ten years.
State employees are also eligible to participate in two supplemental retirement plans: the 457 Deferred Compensation Plan and the 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan.
Employees of the State of Maryland typically work a forty-hour work week.
Many State agencies offer their employees flexible work schedules.
The Teleworking Program enables eligible state employees to work at home, at a satellite office, or at a Telework Center.
Employees with the State of Maryland are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Permanent State employees are entitled to use the Baltimore Light Rail, the Baltimore Metro Subway, the Baltimore Bus Service (Local Bus Service and Express Bus Service), as well as the following Baltimore Region Commuter Bus Routes:
There is no charge to the permanent State employee with a valid State ID card.
When you come to work for the State of Maryland, as a permanent State employee (or a contractual employee who works at least 30 hours per week or an average of 130 hours a month for a period greater than 90 consecutive days), you and your family may benefit from our medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage.
You also may be eligible for life, accidental death and dismemberment insurance plans at low group rates.
Working for the Maryland State Personnel Management System entitles permanent State employees to participate in Healthcare and Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Accounts.
These plans allow eligible employees to save, on a pretax basis, for healthcare and dependent care costs incurred during the plan year.