Financial Specialist 13

Full Job Description

This position serves as the financial specialist for Field Operations Administration (FOA) in the Financial Operations Division and works closely with BOA and FOA Deputy Directors and FOA Managers and staff, providing ongoing communication regarding the budget, financial status, reports, and information for FOA appropriation and programs. This position is responsible for managing purchases, contracts, encumbrances, expenditures, and revenue for FOA, including Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) and grants. This position is responsible for and has oversight of all budget and financial reporting including the preparation of annual FOA spending plans, monthly projections, and various financial analysis which encompasses over $232 million in funding, 1,800 FTEs, and 105 parole and probation field offices. This Financial specialist is responsible for all financial activities including but not limited to performing complex revenue and expenditure analysis, monitoring, projecting and forecasting; researching, compiling, analyzing, and interpreting a variety of complex financial, legislative, and policy information; developing annual spending plans for some of the departments most complex appropriations; assigning and monitoring FOA’s annual budget; monthly financial projections for all FOA related appropriations. This position serves as a point of contact for DTMB on funding request and billing issues. This position is responsible for complex financial information requested by Executive leadership, and legislative requests.

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Work Location: This position is located in Lansing, Michigan and will require reporting in person for the first two weeks. After the initial training period, a hybrid work schedule may be approved that will allow work to be performed remotely up to 50% of the time with the other 50% of the work being performed in-person in Lansing.

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New hires to the MDOC along with previous MDOC employees that are returning after being away from the department for more than two years will complete Non-Custody New Employee Training (NCNET) either 40 hours or 80 hours of initial in-person training based on their level of offender contact and job classification. All new employees will complete additional online training to successfully complete their non-custody new employee training.

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