Financial Manager

Job Posting Title

Financial Manager

Agency

345 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Supervisory Organization

Comptroller Administration

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

January 24, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

$85,600/year

Job Description

This position handles the Field District Office approval of requisitions for available funding, auditing p-card purchases, auditing claims and invoices for compliance with OMES and ODOT policies, auditing travel reimbursements, and receiving and banking agency funds.

Basic Purpose

Positions in this job family are responsible for planning and directing financial accounting, budgeting, auditing, investments, cash management, and other fiscal operations and functions. This includes directing staff activities in maintaining, analyzing, and reporting financial accounting data; developing appropriate accounting systems; establishing necessary financial controls; approving various expenditures and obligations; planning and conducting internal and external audits; developing budget work programs and recommendations concerning appropriations; and similar functions. Some positions may also direct other agency functions, such as Administration, Personnel, or Procurement and Supply.

Typical Functions

• Plans, directs, and coordinates fiscal operations and financial accounting functions or assists in the planning and directing of such functions.

• Develops accounting systems and procedures for recording revenues and expenditures; directs the maintenance of accounting records concerning appropriations or other revenues, payroll expenses, supply and equipment purchases, travel expenses, contracting costs, and other financial transactions.

• Plans and directs operational or financial audits and reviews to ensure financial accountability and compliance with established standards and enhance agency operating procedures.

• Directs the preparation of financial statements and reports.

• Reviews and approves obligations and expenditures as needed.

• Establishes necessary fiscal controls to ensure appropriate accountability for revenues and expenditures.

• Directs the review and preparation of budget work programs; reviews and approves agency budget requests and makes recommendations concerning the state budget.

Level Descriptor

At this level employees are assigned responsibility for planning and directing the fiscal operations of an agency which is limited in size and scope. This may include those with between 50 and 200 authorized FTE, a budget or financial accounting or management responsibilities of less than five million dollars or a financial accounting staff of five or less FTE. It also includes positions which are assigned responsibility for assisting in the direction of the financial operations of an agency of moderate size and scope as an assistant comptroller or in a large agency as the director of a major section within the Finance Division.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level consist of knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles and theories; of governmental accounting principles; of budgeting and auditing theories and techniques; of financial statements and reports; of accounting ledgers and journals; of cost accounting; of procurement laws and regulations; of computer technology related to accounting systems; and of supervisory principles and practices. Ability is required to direct the work others; to review and analyze financial records; to prepare financial reports and statements; and to communicate effectively.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor's degree in accounting, business, public administration, or a closely related field and five years of experience in professional accounting or auditing or closely related work, including two years in a supervisory or administrative capacity; substituting one additional year of professional accounting or auditing experience for each year of the required education or an equivalent combination of education and experience OR a master's degree in accounting, business, public administration or a closely related field and five years of experience in professional accounting or auditing or closely related work.

Note: If you do not have a master's degree, you must have the required two years of supervisory or administrative experience.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

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