Fiscal Advisor V

State of Delaware•Dover, DE

11h•Hybrid

About The Position

As Fiscal Advisor V, you will be providing high-level fiscal, operational, and supervisory support, which includes preparing grant and financial reports, supervising staff, and ensuring proper approval of invoices and timecards. Responsibilities will revolve around developing annual fixed-expense budgets, monitoring spending, and ensuring compliance with all applicable state and federal requirements. You will oversee multiple full-time employees, offer expert guidance on complex issues, manage workflows to meet deadlines, and notify leadership when corrective action or deadline extensions are necessary. Additional duties include monitoring financial operations, supporting grant/contract preparation, maintaining effective communication with internal and external stakeholders, and completing required ETA reporting.

Requirements

Four years’ experience in compiling, analyzing and reporting on financial data to ensure effective and efficient accounting of funds or to make projections for financial planning.
Two years’ experience in analyzing financial problems, developing alternatives, recommending and advising management on solutions.
Coursework, training and/or work experience in budget management and control such as managing a budget for the purpose of keeping expenditures within the limitations of available appropriations and available revenue and maintaining, monitoring, projecting and controlling a budget within set policies and procedures.
Coursework, training and/or work experience in staff supervision which may include performing as a lead worker overseeing the work of others.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Satisfactory criminal background check.

Nice To Haves

6 months experience in using the First State Financials System (FSF) to enter, update, modify, delete, retrieve/inquire and report on data.

Responsibilities

Preparing grant and financial reports.
Supervising staff.
Ensuring proper approval of invoices and timecards.
Developing annual fixed-expense budgets.
Monitoring spending.
Ensuring compliance with all applicable state and federal requirements.
Overseeing multiple full-time employees.
Offering expert guidance on complex issues.
Managing workflows to meet deadlines.
Notifying leadership when corrective action or deadline extensions are necessary.
Monitoring financial operations.
Supporting grant/contract preparation.
Maintaining effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Completing required ETA reporting.
Reviews and analyzes financial transactions and records to determine accuracy and monitors adherence to agency budget, applicable agreements, grants, or contracts, as well as state or federal laws, rules, and regulations.
Analyzes, reconciles, and consolidates data to the general ledger from journals, records, and documents; takes trial balances and makes corrections, updates, and adjustments to bring funds into balance and maintains an audit trail.
Reviews financial transactions, classification and codes to ensure accuracy and recommends changes.
Maintains internal controls and applies accounting principles, practices, and standards.
Provides advice and technical guidance on matters in assigned fiscal function(s).
Compiles, analyzes and prepares a variety of statements and reports of financial health utilized in financial, budget, and personnel planning.
Researches and provides data, reports and other documentation to state, federal and independent auditors and for other requests for financial information.
Uses commercial and proprietary automated information systems and computer software to research, review, evaluate, and report on financial data.
Delivers excellent customer service to internal and external customers and the public in person, electronically, or by written communication.
Communicates and interacts effectively with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, ages, and races.
May be responsible for purchasing, disbursement, and inventory of equipment and supplies.