Fiscal​/Administrative Officer

Looking to advance in your career with the State of Connecticut? Check out this recruitment below!

The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is looking to hire a Fiscal/Administrative Officer based out of Central Office in Wethersfield.

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• This position is full-time, 40 hour per week position on first shift, Monday-Friday.
• A hybrid (telework) schedule may be available after the completion of the working test period. These positions are considered Central Office positions, and are based out of Fiscal Services Division in Central Office in Wethersfield, CT.

This position is critical to ensuring the Department’s compliance with statutory and federal requirements for the timely and accurate financial reporting of federal grant funds. The position provides comprehensive financial management and oversight of federal grants awarded by other State agencies, including preparation and submission of financial reports, maintenance of supporting documentation, transfer invoices, fund balance tracking, and Notices of Intent for departmental receivable grants.

The role requires close coordination with other departments, Contracts, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, and program staff to ensure the accurate reconciliation, monitoring, and reporting of federal funds. Given the volume and complexity of the grants managed, the position is essential to safeguarding federal funding, maintaining fiscal accountability, meeting reporting deadlines, and minimizing the risk of noncompliance, delayed reimbursements, or loss of grant funding.

The Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is a diverse agency with a wide variety of employees from Correction Officers, to Educators, to Managers and Skilled Professionals. We value differences that make us stronger as a team and support our mission statement.

The Connecticut Department of Correction is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. State of Connecticut. The agency operates 13 correctional facilities. It has its headquarters in Wethersfield. The DOC protects public safety by ensuring offenders serve their sentences of imprisonments in facilities that are safe, human, and provide re-entry programming.

The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction is a unified system; all sentenced and unsentenced offenders are supervised by the DOC. The Department also provides supervision for offenders on parole, community release, and other discretionary release programs.

In order to be considered for this job opening, you must be a current State of CT employee, who has worked for the state for at least six (6) months of full-time service or full-time equivalent service, absent any applicable collective bargaining language, and meet the Minimum Qualifications as listed on the job opening. You must specify your qualifications on your application.

In a state agency, facility or institution this class is accountable for independently performing a full range of tasks in professional level fiscal and administrative functions.

• Performs a variety of professional fiscal and administrative functions;
• Assists head of fiscal/administrative operations, division head or agency head in budget preparation by compiling and consolidating data and projecting expenditures;
• Maintains budget control by reviewing and authorizing expenditures and monitoring expenditures against appropriations and allotments;
• Prepares budget reports;
• Prepares various financial statements and statistical or narrative fiscal/administrative reports;
• Assists in planning and implementation of financial aspects of EDP systems;
• Utilizes EDP systems for financial records, reports and analyses;
• Pr…