Government Operations Consultant III

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the florida department of children and families (dcf)isthe state of florida’s social services agency. The agency oversees services for child safety, fostering, adoption, domestic violence, adult protective services, refugees, homelessness, mental health, substance abuse, childcare providers, human trafficking and public assistance. The agency’s mission is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

within dcf, thesubstance abuse and mental health (samh) program office is recognized as the single state authority for substance abuse and mental health services. The office of samh is statutorily responsible for the planning, evaluation, and implementation of a comprehensive statewide system of care for the prevention, treatment, and recovery of children and adults with serious mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

to be considered for this position responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

this is a highly responsible and professional position that will serve as the government operations consultant iii (financial monitor) within the samh program office. This position will collaborate with each section within the program office and be required to use independent judgement, take initiative in carrying out duties and responsibilities and should be extraordinarily detail oriented.

specific duties and responsibilities include:

• reviews financial transactions related to the programs.
• reconciles records of expenditures to ensure all invoices and supporting documents are accurate in the florida accounting information resource (flair), financial information system (fis), and myfloridamarketplace (mfmp).
• work collaboratively with staff on development of new and annual budgets and budget revisions.
• provide monthly budget updates to program managers to ensure efficient utilization of all funds.
• develop and manage state and federal grants budgets in collaboration with program managers.
• manage budget compliance and financial activity to assure compliance with funding requirements and efficient utilization of funding.
• provide ongoing tracking of expenditures; develop and maintain programmatic expenditure tracking tools and spreadsheets.
• works with budget and accounting to resolve issues that impact program budget to include identifying and resolving errors.
• assist with creating reports, visualizations, executive briefings, and other management summaries to support program operations and management decisions.
• completes all required financial reporting in accordance with federal and state rules, policies and procedures.
• performs other duties as assigned.

knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position:

• knowledge of basic management principles and practices.
• knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis.
• ability to coordinate a consultative program designed to ensure the resolution of managerial and operational problems.
• ability to determine work priorities and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• ability to communicate effectively.
• ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• ability to assess budgetary needs.
• ability to formulate policies and procedures.
• ability to understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures relating to operational and management analysis activities.
• ability to organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents and other written materials.
• ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document work and other activities relating to the improvement of operational and management practices.
• ability to conduct fact finding research.
• ability to work independently.
• ability to solve problems and make decisions.

minimum qualifications:

• a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in accounting or business administration and…