Fiscal Accounts Technician Ii Statewide

Position: FISCAL ACCOUNTS TECHNICIAN II STATEWIDE
Introduction

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

This Statewide recruitment is opened to allow candidates to apply and establish a list of eligible candidates to fill current and future vacancies occurring throughout Maryland Department of Human Services, including in our Local Department of Social Services and regional Offices of Child Support throughout the State.

GRADE

ASTD
12

LOCATION OF POSITION

STATEWIDE

Current Vacancies At

• Baltimore County Department of Social Services
• Finance
• 6401 York Rd.
• Baltimore, MD 21212
• Howard County Department of Social Services
• 9780 Patuxent Woods Dr.
• Columbia, MD 21046

Main Purpose of Job

A Fiscal Accounts Technician II is the full performance level of work reconciling agency accounting systems to fiscal control systems or developing automated spreadsheets, ledgers and reports or identifying budget trends and recommending budget realignments. Employees in this classification do not supervise other Fiscal Accounts Technicians or Fiscal Accounts Clerks.

POSITION DUTIES Examples Of Work

• Examines financial data to identify interrelationships and trends and devises procedures to increase the reliability and usefulness of the data.
• Designs report formats and summarizes financial data in periodic and special reports.
• Meets with professional fiscal staff and program managers to discuss and resolve accounting and budgetary issues.
• Provides technical guidance and direction concerning fiscal policies and procedures to fiscal clerical staff in various units of an agency.
• May reconcile agency accounting systems to fiscal control systems on a periodic basis by comparing the reports of the two accounting systems, locating and researching differences, tracing discrepancies to source documents, making necessary adjustments and maintaining an audit trail.
• May develop, update and implement automated spreadsheets, ledgers and reports for use by other fiscal staff including layout and user instructions using accounting software packages.
• May assist in budget preparation by compiling prior necessary data and calculating current funding requests based on agency needs and adjustments for inflation and other variables.
• May review budget submissions or financial statements from other agencies or grantees for completeness, accuracy and compliance with established procedures and regulations.
• May maintain appropriations ledgers or grant ledgers and approve expenditures based on compliance with established guidelines and fund availability.
• May recommend and process budget modifications, budget supplements and budget amendments.
• May prepare budget projections by compiling and reviewing past and current budget data and estimating future budget needs.
• May prepare grant status of funding reports and request the drawdown of funds.
• May assist in the training of subordinate Fiscal Accounts Clerks and clerical support staff.
• Performs other related duties.

Minimum Qualifications

Applicants must meet all minimum (and selective) qualifications to be considered, and to appear on the list of people eligible for hire. Please read all requirements before applying.

Education:

Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.

Experience:

One year of experience…