Financial Manager II, DCFS, State Office (Salt Lake City)

Salary: $32.01 - $50.77 Hourly
Location : Salt Lake County, UT
Job Type: Full Time
Remote Employment: Flexible/Hybrid
Job Number: 44284
Agency: 250 Health & Human Services
Unit: 7110 DHHS DCFS STATE OFFICE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
Opening Date: 02/26/2025
Closing Date: 3/9/2025 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Exempt
Recruiter: Tammy Alfaro (talfaro@utah.gov) (801-538-4221)
# of Openings: 1
Background Check: You must successfully pass a criminal history check.
Location: This position is open to remote work/teleworking options. However, the employee may be required to attend events and meetings at the DCFS State Office, 195 N 1950 W, Salt Lake City, UT. The State of Utah requires all employees to physically work inside the State of Utah Boundaries.
Schedule Code: AX - Employees in supervisory positions - This is a career service exempt at will position.
Benefits: This position is eligible for a full benefits package. See benefits tab below for details.
EEO Statement: The State of Utah is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. For accommodations, dial 711 or TTY: 800-346-4128.

Job Description
Would you like to have a career where you can help make a difference for children and families in the State of Utah? This may be the position for you.

The Division of Child & Family Services (DCFS), is looking to fill a Financial Manager II position, within the DCFS state office team located in Salt Lake City. The Financial Manager II directs multiple fiscal activities for a large complex division and advises division directors regarding fiscal operations, develops and implements division procedures and controls to manage budgeting, accounting, contracts, and other financial services; and assists division executive management by providing detailed financial analysis, monitoring budget and expenditures and supporting strategic decision making and resource optimization. The Financial Manager II also supervises a professional level accounting team including: hiring recommendations; determining workload and delegating assignments; training, monitoring, and evaluating performance; and initiating corrective and disciplinary actions including terminations if necessary.

This position is open to a hybrid work option. The State of Utah requires all employees to physically work inside the State of Utah Boundaries.

Principal Duties

• Managing accounting or budget activities and providing fiscal information.
• Serving as the fiscal lead for Division monthly financial forecasting.
• Developing budgets including fund allocation, revenue allocation and monitoring, budget projection, expenditures, etc.
• Working collaboratively with the Division Administrator Service Director and the finance team on the monthly forecasting, budget monitoring and year-end closeout process.
• Managing a team of Financial Analysts.
• Managing special fiscal projects or activities of a highly specialized nature (i.e. Social Service Building Grant report, Year-end closeout report, etc.).
• Developing and/or updating internal guidelines, financial processes, policies, and/or standards, etc.
• Performing statistical and/or actuarial analysis by applying appropriate protocols in analyzing data and reaching accurate conclusions.
• Interpreting, clarifying, explaining, and applying agency policy and procedures, business practices, federal and/or state laws and regulations, etc.
• Analyzing, summarizing, and/or reviewing data; reporting findings, interpreting results, and/or making recommendations.
• Reviewing fiscal operations to ensure integrity, accuracy, and control of data.
• Supervising subordinate personnel including: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective and/or disciplinary actions.
• Representing the agency with federal, state, and local government units, in the media, and/or with private organizations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with financial modeling, financial forecasting and reporting.
• Strong understanding of government accounting and federal programs.
• Foundational understanding of the principles, theories, and practices of budget management.
• The ability to come up with unusual or creative ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Preference

Preference may be given to candidates who have:

• A Bachelors or higher degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, or closely related field, with at least three years of professional experience in the field of finance, OR seven or more years of professional work experience in Financial Management OR a combination of education and professional work experience.
• Experience in managing a multi-million dollar complex budget.

Why You Should Join Our Team

Become an integral part of a Utah Division working together to keep children safe and strengthen families in our communities. Experience a sense of achievement for a job well done and enjoy work life balance! We offer great health benefits and retirement plans, generous paid time off, and a balanced work schedule to afford quality time spent with your family. Click here to see what makes working for the State of Utah awesome: Compensation & Benefits.
The Agency

The goal of the Utah Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) is to have communities where children grow up safe from abuse, neglect and dependency, where adults are protected from domestic violence, and where parents can be strengthened in their capacity to keep their family safe.

For more information about DCFS, Click Here
Qualifications
These are the knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with this position:

• Strong understanding of government accounting and federal programs
  
• Advanced Excel users and extensive experience with financial modeling, financial forecasting and reporting
  
• Foundational understanding of the Principles, theories, and practices of budget management
  
• Using logic to analyze or identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts associated with information or data to draw conclusions
  
• Prior supervisory experience in leading a team of financial staff
  
• Making a decision or solving a problem by using logic to identify key facts, explore alternatives, and propose quality solutions
  
• Speaking clearly, concisely and effectively; listening to, and understanding information and ideas as presented verbally
  
• Effective communicator on financial information and ideas in a clearly, and concisely
  
• Composing and producing reports, documents and related material
  
• Finding, gathering, and collecting information or data
  
• Reading, interpreting, and applying laws, rules, regulations, policies and/or procedures
  
• Developing and/or implementing new policies/procedures/standards and/or rules/regulations
  
• Evaluating information against a set of standards
  
• Controlling or directing the operation of a program or function
  
• Performing statistical data analysis
  
• Supervising others by assigning/directing work; conducting employee evaluations, staff training and development, taking appropriate disciplinary/corrective actions, making hiring/termination recommendations, etc.
  
• Principles, theories, and practices of the legislative process
  
• Dealing with people in a manner which shows sensitivity, tact, and professionalism

Supplemental Information
All DCFS job offers are contingent upon passing a Background Screening Application (BSA).
Physical Requirements

• 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.

Working Conditions

• 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.

Benefits:
The State of Utah offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, as well as a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for a detailed information page: To access a Total Compensation Calculator in Excel format click

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In the interest of professionalism, public trust and safety for families and individuals, Utah code, outlined in UCA 26B-1-211 (https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title26B/Chapter1/26B-1-S211.html?v=C26B-1-S211_2022050420220701), requires that all persons who have been offered a position with the Department of Health and Human Services or associated with a licensed facility (owner, director, governing body, employee, agent, provider, contractor or volunteer) who has or will have direct access as defined in UCA 26B-2-101 (https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title26B/Chapter2/26B-2-S101.html?v=C26B-2-S101_2022050420220701) must pass a criminal background check. Until the Office of Background Process has approved the screening, an applicant shall have no direct access. Do you acknowledge any offer of employment is contingent on successfully passing the employee background check?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have professional work experience in finance at the managerial level?

• No experience
• Less than 1 year
• More than 1 year, less than 2 years
• More than 2 years, less than 3 years
• More than 3 years, less than 4 years
• More than 4 years, less than 5 years
• More than 5 years

03

Describe your experience working in finance at the managerial level. Please include the names of employers, dates of service, job titles and job duties.
04

Have you obtained education in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field?

• No
• Diploma/GED/No Degree
• Associates Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master Degree or higher

05

Please describe your educational background and/or areas of study/achievement.
06

Do you hold one or more of the following certifications: CPA, CGFM or CMA? Select all that apply.

• CPA
• CGFM
• CMA

07

Do you have professional work experience developing budgets?

• No experience
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 2 years
• 3 to 4 years
• 5 or more years

08

Describe your experience developing budgets, including:The size of the budget you were responsible for;what authority you had approving budgets;the names of employers, service time, your duties, and job titles.
09

Do you have professional work experience in financial forecasting?

• None
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 2 years
• 3 to 4 years
• 5 or more years

10

Describe your experience in financial forecasting, including:The reports you prepared, and the users of these reports;the names of employers, service time, your duties, and job titles.
11

Do you have professional work experience monitoring budgets?

• No experience
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 2 years
• 3 to 4 years
• 5 or more years

12

Describe your experience in monitoring budgets, including:Activities you have used to monitor revenues/expenditures to ensure they are within fiscal restraints;the names of employers, service time, your duties, and job titles.
13

Do you have professional work experience working with federal revenue?

• No experience
• Less than 1 year
• 1 to 2 years
• 3 to 4 years
• 5 or more years

14

Describe your experience working with federal revenue, including names of employers, service time, your duties, and job titles.
15

Please check all the Excel functions below you have used regularly, on a monthly basis.

• Creating graphs
• Generating tables
• Inserting charts
• Developing formulas
• Using pivot tables

16

Please list the employers you worked for to gain your experience with the Excel functions you checked in the question above. Include employer names, dates of service, job titles, duties and describe in detail the type of reports/documents you have written using these functions.
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Please rate your level of expertise in using Microsoft Excel when creating graphs.

• Limited experience
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

18

Please rate your level of expertise in using Microsoft Excel, when generating tables.

• Limited experience
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

19

Please rate your level of expertise in using Microsoft Excel when inserting charts and developing charts.

• Limited experience
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

20

Please rate your level of expertise in using Microsoft Excel when using pivot tables.

• Limited experience
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

21

Do you have experience directly supervising others in the performance of their duties?

• Yes
• No

22

Describe where you gained your experience in direct supervision, including names of employers, dates of service, and the number of people you directly supervised.
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#Please indicate how you heard about this specific job posting.

• State of Utah job site (www.governmentjobs.com/careers/utah)
• Referred by a Friend or Family
• Indeed
• Other External Job Board or Site
• LinkedIn
• Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
• DWS job website (www.jobs.utah.gov)
• Advertisement (Digital Ad, Billboard, Print, etc.)
• Professional Network (Association, Membership, Work Colleague)
• University Network (Handshake, School Job Board, Career Center, etc.)
• Contacted by a Recruiter
• Career or Job Fair
• Internship
• Interviewed for different position
• Internal communications (Agency/Division, etc.)
• Other (not listed above)

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