FiscalAdministrative Assistant
Middletown, DE - USA
Job Summary
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- This position is full time following a first shift schedule 40 hours per week Monday through Friday and will be based atDESPP Headquarters 1111 Country Club Rd Middletown CT 06457.
- This position also offers partial teleworking and a flexible/alternate schedule in accordance with State of Connecticut policies.
- The ideal candidate is motivated enjoys working in a range of fiscal and administrative functions and takes pride in maintaining strong fiscal control and accurate reporting.
- This role offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with internal fiscal and program staff as well as partner agencies while contributing to the oversight of the Agency Inventory.
- Making decisions through the thoughtful and informed use of data
- Challenging the thats the way its always been done constructi.e. thinking outside the box as to how we can improve
- Constantly seeking better results
- Recognizing our collective responsibility to steward the agencys resources
- Realigning planned budgetary actions to ensure that they are in taxpayers interests
- Preparing together for potential budget stresses and fiscal challenges
- Critically and constantly measuring our practices against our policies
- Performing quarterly performance evaluations agency-wide to measure success and flag areas needing improvement
- Regularly engaging external partners for feedback and assessments
- Opening our doors to Connecticut students and workers for apprenticeships internships and career pathways
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- Meet Minimum Qualifications: Ensure you meet the Minimum Qualifications listed on the job opening by the job closing date. You must specify your qualifications on your application. The minimum experience and training requirements listed must be met by the close date on the job opening unless otherwise specified.
- Educational Credits: List your earned credits and degrees from accredited institutions accurately on your application. To receive educational credits towards qualification the institution must be accredited. If the institution of higher learning is located outside of the U.S. you are responsible for providing documentation from a recognized USA accrediting service which specializes in determining foreign education equivalencies to the contact listed below.
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- Two (2) most recent performance evaluations
- Completed CT-HR-13
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- Performs paraprofessional level work in fiscal and administrative activities;
- Independently performs bookkeeping and basic accounting activities such as maintaining balancing and reconciling an interrelated group of accounts;
- Independently accountable for an accounts receivable or accounts payable process including varied and complex procedures and activities;
- Prepares simple financial statements and assists in preparation of complex financial statements;
- Calculates rates involving complex arithmetical formulas;
- Gathers and consolidates payroll and expenditure data for budget preparation;
- Ensures that expenditures plus encumbrances are within appropriation limits;
- Reviews routine expenditures for compliance with itemized budgets;
- Utilizes EDP systems for financial records and reports;
- Independently performs purchasing functions including preparing and processing purchase orders and requisitions authorizing routine purchase orders and preparing requests for proposals;
- Independently prepares renewal or new contracts based on awards;
- Ensures that routine payments are in compliance with contract provisions;
- Performs related duties as required.
- Knowledge of
- bookkeeping financial record keeping and basic governmental accounting principles and practices;
- basic procedures of budget preparation and control;
- payroll procedures purchasing procedures and contract preparation;
- Skills
- interpersonal skills;
- oral and written communication skills;
- Considerable ability in arithmetic computations;
- Ability to
- audit financial documents;
- understand and apply statutes and regulations;
- utilize EDP systems for financial management.
Four (4) years of experience in complex clerical work in one or more fiscal/administrative functions such as accounting accounts examining budget management grant administration payroll or purchasing.
NOTE: Complex clerical work is defined as generally routine fiscal/ administrative work such as financial record keeping or examining bookkeeping requisitioning or payroll preparation at or above the level of Financial Clerk. Descriptions of these fiscal/administrative functions are attached
- College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of two (2) years.
- One (1) year as a Pre-Professional Trainee in fiscal/administrative work may be substituted for the General Experience.
- Experience with CORE-CT Financials for Asset Management Purchasing and Accounts Payable;
- Experience conducting annual inventory to include tracking capital and controllable assets in compliance with state statutes and regulations;
- Experience with EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) and STARS (State Analytical Reporting Systems);
- Experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel Word Teams Outlook); and
- Experience in surplus procedures and disposition of equipment.
AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women minorities and persons with disabilities.
Required Experience:
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