Job Responsibilities:

Supervises, guides, and/or instructs the work assignments of subordinate staff. Oversees, develops, prepares, analyzes and/or revises large or complex budgets and supporting schedules for assigned organizations or program areas. Performs review and analysis of budget program and policy issues, analyzes financial trends or proposed legislation and recommends appropriate courses of action to management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises and plans work of assigned staff.
• Analyzes agency budgeting and accounting reports/requests to maintain expenditure controls
• Analyzes or develops policy and budget-related initiatives; makes recommendations based on analysis.
• Assesses financial data to determine the resources required to implement a program, or to analyze trends.
• Examines budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.

• Prepares comprehensive analytical reports to present to leadership.
• Requests budgetary codes, track physical inventory or record/audit expenses, or document use of funds and adherence to budget allocations.
• Reviews, interprets and writes policies and procedures associated with budget and other financial matters.
• Serves as budget expert for agency or multiple programs and develop reports for agency, OPB or other government entities.
• Supervises the budget preparation, auditing, records management and related operations.
• Develops, procedures and forms utilized in the agency's improvement budget process.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in public administration, business administration, accounting, finance or related filed from an accredited college or university AND Three years of fiscal analysis experience OR Associate's degree in public administration, business administration, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited college or university AND Five years of fiscal analysis experience. Note: An equivalent combination of education and job specific experience that provided the knowledge, experience and competencies required to successfully perform the job at the level listed may be substituted on a year-over-year basis. Associate’s degree in public administration, business administration, accounting, finance or related field from an accredited college or university or two years of fiscal analysis experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working for Georgia State Agency Budget Office.

• Three years managing a team or supervising employees.

• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the use of it to identify budget variances and complete financial analysis.

• Experience in TeamWorks Peoplesoft Financials and Oracle Planning and Budget Cloud Service (PBCS).

• One or more years’ experience in expenditure analysis and forecasting utilizing Excel and reporting databases to analyze financial data.

• Experience coordinating budget activities between various departments, programs, or external customers as appropriate.

• Strong proficiency in using Excel to include pivot tables, filtering, formulas, ability to identify budget variances.

• Experience in identifying and explaining expenditure trends and program projections.

• Experience with Tableau is advantageous but not required.

Comments:

This position is part of the Budget Services Department and is located in the City of Forsyth, GA (Monroe County), at State Offices South at Tift College. Due to the high volume of applications, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Open to internal and external applicants.

13 paid holidays per year, Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, 401(k), Vision Insurance, On the Job Training, Life Insurance.

About the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC):

The Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) has one of the largest prison systems in the U.S. and is responsible for supervising approximately 47,000 state prisoners. It is the largest law enforcement agency in the state with approximately 9,000 employees. For more information on the GDC, please visit https://jobs.gdc.ga.gov.

REGAINING MOMENTUM

The Georgia Department of Corrections protects the public by operating safe and secure facilities through the development of professional staff and effective offender management.