Bureau Financial Manager 14 - Food Safety And Animal Health

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About this Position:

The Bureau of Food Safety and Animal Health of MDARD has a mission to protect public health by ensuring both food safety and animal health. The Financial Manager 14 position is responsible for the bureau's overall budget, spending oversight and fiscal stewardship, including direct supervision of the staff who support bureau and division business and financial functions. The position advises management staff on all administrative activities pertinent to their area of responsibility; provides input on program planning and policy development; and provides representation at meetings.

The ideal candidate for this position will have knowledge and experience of State of Michigan budget and financial processes, procedures and systems including procurement, contracts and grants and beyond. Equally important, the candidate will need to possess effective verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to coach and evaluate staff, with above-average inter-personal and decision-making skills. A successful candidate would also demonstrate the ability to function successfully as part of the Bureau's management team, exercise professional management-level discretion and judgment, and to maintain favorable, effective relationships overall.

This position is Lansing-office based with remote work options. This position is also required to meet quantity, quality and timeliness standards for assigned work.

Position Description

About MDARD:

Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) partners with the food and agriculture industry to assure a safe, wholesome, and abundant food supply; grow our state's economy; and improve the lives of Michigan citizens. These are the primary reasons we do the work we do, and we take great pride in doing our jobs well.

More About MDARD:

MDARD is comprised of four bureaus that use a customer-driven, solution-oriented approach to cultivate and expand new economic opportunities for the food and agricultural sector; safeguard the public's food supply; inspect and enforce sound animal health practices; control and eradicate plant pests and diseases threatening the $101.2 billion food and agriculture system; preserve the environment by which the farming community makes their living and feeds consumers; and protect consumers by enforcing laws relating to weights and measures.

Education

Possession of a bachelor's degree in any major with at least 24 semester (36 term) credits in one or a combination of the following: accounting, finance, or economics.

Experience

Four years of professional experience providing a systematic review, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of budgets, mortgages, loans, or other financial data equivalent to a Financial Analyst, including two years equivalent to a Financial Analyst P11 or one year equivalent to a Financial Analyst 12 or Financial Manager 12.

Please attach a cover letter, resume and official college transcripts to your application.  For our purposes, "Official Transcripts" must contain the college/university name and address, the degree conferred and date granted, coursework completed (especially if no degree granted), and the Registrar's signature and/or seal.

Information provided in your application, resume, cover letter, transcripts, and any other documentation provided will be used to verify responses to the supplemental questions.  Unsupported responses may not be considered further.

Your application for any position does not guarantee that you will be contacted by the Department/Agency for further consideration.  Only those applicants interviewed will be notified of the results. 

View the job specification at:  http://www.michigan.gov/documents/FinancialManager_12662_7.pdf