Fiscal Advisor V

Summary

As Fiscal Advisor V, you will be providing high‑level fiscal, operational, and supervisory support, which includes preparing grant and financial reports, supervising staff, ensuring proper approval of invoices and timecards, developing annual fixed‑expense budgets, monitoring spending, and ensuring compliance with all applicable state and federal requirements.

Additional duties include monitoring financial operations, supporting grant/contract preparation, maintaining effective communication with internal and external stakeholders, and 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.

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

Applicants who do not possess the preferred qualification will still be eligible to compete for this position if job requirements are met.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The State of Delaware Executive Branch participates in the Federal E‑Verify system where the State will provide the federal government with each new hire’s Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information refer to our job seeker resources.

All new hires are required to report to the Statewide New Employee Orientation (SNEO) on their first day of employment. Sessions are held at designated locations in Kent or New Castle County.

A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire. The recruiting agency may require the applicant to pay for the criminal background check as part of the conditional offer of hire.

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Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities in all phases of the application and employment process.

The State of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity employer and values a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage and seek out a workforce representative of Delaware including race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.