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Fiscal Analyst

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Fiscal Analyst

Salary

$65,749.00 - $101,920.00 Annually

Location

Durham, NC

Job Type

Full time with benefits

Remote Employment

Flexible/Hybrid

Job Number

25-05427

Department

Finance

Opening Date

04/24/2025

Closing Date

Continuous

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Position Description

Work, Serve, Thrive. With the City of Durham

Advance in your career while making a real difference in the community you serve.

Hiring Range: $65,749.00 - $82,000.00

Work Day/Hours: M-F 8-5

Join one of the highest fiscally rated entities in the country. The City of Durham’s Finance Department (http://durhamnc.gov/456/Finance) promotes sound management and stewardship of taxpayer dollars by helping the City Council, City Manager and City departments manage their financial resources and leading risk management administration and training. If sound fiscal management is what you’re about, join our team!

Devoted to providing paraprofessional fiscal support and professional fiscal analysis and management for the City’s accounting, treasury, budget, payroll, and accounts receivable/payable support. Perform fully proficient journey-level accounting, financial analysis or grant administration that requires independent evaluation and analysis of issues and the exercise of judgment, education and experience to select and apply criteria to resolve problems and make recommendations. Decision-making includes selecting the method to address a problem or issue, subject to the constraints established by management objectives and direction. Decision-making involves assisting with development of operational policies and procedures, providing direction to lower level staff in the execution of operational tasks, and ensuring quality control activities.

Responsible for oversight and correction of transactions; development of financial tools; analyzing financial transactions, trends, cost and expenditure and revenue information; producing and maintaining complex analytical reports and spreadsheets; and adhering to and monitoring financial deadlines.

Performs journey-level accounting, financial analysis, and/or grant administration, including overseeing and correcting transactions, developing financial tools, maintaining and monitoring financial portfolios, setting up and managing accounts, preparing correspondence, maintaining the general ledger, preparing salary allocations, assisting with identifying funding alternatives, and ensuring compliance with financial practices, procedures, and deadlines, and applicable regulations, policies, and procedures.

Duties/Responsibilities

+ Prepares, reviews, maintains, and/or submits complex financial, analytical, and other reports, spreadsheets, records, files, and other documentation; processes checks, purchase cards, invoices, and other financial information and materials; maintains databases and online systems; researches and analyzes financial transactions, trends, cost, expenditure, revenue, and related information; and makes recommendations based on financial data.

+ Coordinates with, and/or serves as a liaison to, contractors and City departments and/or external agencies; provides professional assistance; trains and/or monitors staff and contractors; assists with or coordinates projects; and plans and improves department business processes.

+ Assists with American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) processing and review

+ Researching complex financial issues.

+ Creating and maintaining financial models and analyzing and interpreting financial information.

+ Assisting with financial planning and projects.

+ Assisting with the annual budget process and comprehensive audit.

+ Perform professional accounting work including maintaining the general ledger for an assigned area.

+ Analyzing financial data including calculating, preparing, and submitting journal entries, setting up and monitoring grant and capital project accounts; financial statement reporting.

+ Assisting with creating desk procedures and providing expertise to lower level accounting staff.

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

+ Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or public administration or a directly related field

+ Two years of experience in area of assignment

Additional Preferred Skills

Proficiency with MS Excel

Proficiency with MS Office applications

Proficiency with Financial Systems (such as WorkDay, Tyler MUNIS, Oracle Fusion, and Microsoft Dynamics)

Benefits – General Full-Time Employees

+ 12-13 paid holidays per year

+ 13 standard work days of vacation per year

+ 13 standard work days of sick leave per year, which accumulates indefinitely; sick leave may be used toward early retirement

+ 2 weeks paid military leave per year

+ Medical, dental, vision, and supplemental life insurance plans

+ State and City retirement plans

+ Short and long term disability plans

+ Paid temporary disability leave for specified conditions

+ City contribution of 13.6% into the N.C. State Retirement System

+ Paid funeral leave

+ Employee Assistance Program - personal and family counseling

+ Paid life insurance equal to annual salary

+ 48 hours for volunteer work each year*

+ 4 hours parental leave each year

+ Workman's Compensation Insurance

+ 457 Deferred Compensation Plans

Benefits - Part-Time (1,000 hours or more per year)

+ 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)

+ State retirement plan

Benefits Part-Time (Average 30 hours per week over 12 month period)

+ 401(k) retirement plan (5.0% of salary)

+ State retirement plan effective first day of the month following date of hire

+ Health insurance effective first day of the month following date of hire

+ Dental and life insurance, after one year of service

+ Pro-rated vacation, pro-rated sick, pro-rated floating holiday, parttime holiday pay (based on scheduled hours for that day) after one year of service

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Where did you first hear about this opportunity?

+ City of Durham Website

+ Walk in

+ Job fair

+ Employee referral

+ Professional organization ***Please list the organization in "other" box below***

+ Internet posting ***Please list the specific web site in the "other" box below***

+ Craig's List

+ Facebook

+ LinkedIn

+ GlassDoor

+ governmentjobs.com

+ Monster.com

+ Indeed.com

+ Employment Security Commission

+ Magazine/Newspaper

+ Other

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If you listed "other" above please give specific web site, organization, or publication.

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Please select your highest level of COMPLETED education.

+ Less than a High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED, HiSET, TASC)

+ High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED, HiSET, TASC)

+ Associates Degree

+ Bachelor's Degree

+ Master's Degree

+ Doctoral Degree (PhD, Juris Doctorate)

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How many years of related Finance experience do you have?

+ No related experience

+ Less than 1 year of related experience

+ 1 year but less than 2 years of related experience

+ 2 years but less than 6 years of related experience

+ 6 years but less than 10 years of related experience

+ 10 or more years of related experience

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How would you rate your experience level with MS Excel?

+ No experience

+ Beginner level

+ Intermediate level

+ Advanced level

+ Expert level

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How would you rate your experience level with Financial Systems? (such as WorkDay, Tyler MUNIS, Oracle Fusion, and Microsoft Dynamics )

+ No experience

+ Beginner level

+ Intermediate level

+ Advanced level

+ Expert level

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How would you rate your experience level with MS Office applications such as Outlook, Teams, Word, and PowerPoint?

+ No experience

+ Beginner level

+ Intermediate level

+ Advanced level

+ Expert level

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