State of Utah

Compensation

Full Description

DFCM is hiring for a new Finance Director who will function as the chief fiscal officer for the Division of Facilities Construction and Management (DFCM). The director provides guidance regarding fiscal operations; develops and implements DFCM's budget procedures and controls; manages and reviews the formulation of the Divisions appropriation and budget requests; estimates and analyzes program needs, priorities, revenue sources, federal matching money and legislation; manages the allocation of federal, state or other; evaluates and applies guidelines for budget preparation and process; identifies and assists in the development of automated financial processing applications; assists DFCM's operations by providing detailed analysis of requests, and assists in presenting budget proposals to the Legislature. Principle Duties As the Finance Director, you will: • Direct the financial programs for the Division; establish operational guidelines, goals, priorities and work schedules; determine organizational structure and deploy resources to accomplish Division goals and priorities. • Develop and/or approve department fiscal processes, procedures, and internal controls consistent with State Finance policy and the needs of the Division. • Function as a member of the Division's management staff; provide recommendations regarding budget priorities of the department and alternatives to offset revenue shortfalls and cutbacks. • Direct the preparation of the Divisions budget; develop the appropriation requests consistent with the legislative guidelines; assist the Division Director in presenting the budget to the legislature. • Assess the effectiveness of fiscal programs and controls; develop and implement enhancements to remedy problems and improve effectiveness, including electronic solutions. • Review legislation to determine impact on the operations. Provide recommendations regarding implementation of passed legislation. • Analyze, summarize and/or review data; report findings, interpret results and/or make recommendations. Review fiscal operations to ensure integrity, accuracy and control of data. • Review accounting policies and procedures and serves on statewide accounting manual committee. • Supervise subordinate personnel. • Assist in responding to inquiries and requests made by individual legislators, committees, or subcommittees. Perform related duties as assigned. Minimum Qualifications The best candidate for this position will have: • A bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or business administration or six years of full-time professional related employment. • Experience supervising subordinate personnel. About Us The Department of Government Operations provides support to, and enables other state agencies to fulfill their core missions. DFCM is the building manager for all State owned facilities and is responsible for all aspects of construction and maintenance of State Buildings. Our mission is to provide professional services to assist State entities in meeting their facility needs for the benefit of the public. (includes knowledge, skills, and abilities required upon entry into position and trainable after entry into position) • The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. • Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. • Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. • Talking to others to convey information effectively. Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. • Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. • Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. • Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. • Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. • Actively looking for ways to help people. • Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. • Managing one's own time and the time of others. Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. Using mathematics to solve problems. • Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. • Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. • Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. • Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. • Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. • Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data. • Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. • Knowledge of laws, legal codes, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. • Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. • Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. • Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. Knowledge of applications and programming. • The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. • The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. • The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. • The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. • The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). • The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. • The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. • The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). • The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). • The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. • The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. • The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. • The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). • The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. • The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. • The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. • Risks found in the typical office setting, which is adequately lighted, heated and ventilated, e.g., safe use of office equipment, avoiding trips and falls, observing fire regulations, etc. • Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work; however, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying light items; driving an automobile, etc. Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.