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FINANCIAL MANAGER

Posting Begin Date: 2025/11/21

Posting End Date: 2025/11/30

Category: Accounting and Finance

Sub Category: Management

Work Type: Full Time

Minimum Salary: 40.00

Maximum Salary: 0.00

Pay Rate Type: Hourly

Description

State of Idaho

Tax Commission Career Opportunity

Financial Manager

Applications will be accepted through 4:59 PM MST on the posting end date.

The position is in the Boise Office on the Chinden Campus, 11321 West Chinden Blvd, Building 2.

Summary:

Are you a strategic leader with a deep understanding of public budgeting and a talent for empowering teams? This role calls for someone who can guide complex financial planning, align spending plans with agency priorities, and monitor budget performance with precision. As Financial Manager, you'll lead the agency's budgeting function, mentor staff, and drive fiscal strategy through data-informed decision-making. Your ability to interpret financial trends, forecast resource needs, and evaluate budget execution will be key to ensuring accountability and impact. While accounting expertise is a plus, success in this role hinges on your leadership and FP&A skills - bringing clarity to spending plans and helping the agency stay on course.

Job Responsibilities:

+ Direct supervision of Financial Specialist Principals in Management Services Revenue Accounting and Accounts Payable/Procurement

+ Facilitate accounting and financial controls by applying accounting principles and practices (GAAP and GASB) to accounting business processes

+ Develop and facilitate presentations on budgeting and accounting procedures including the presentation of complex accounting problems and solutions to agency staff and leaders as well as external stakeholders to include the State Controller's Office, Treasury, etc.

+ Prepare support documents for budget, e.g., B-4, Performance Management Report (PMR).

+ Build and maintain dashboards for the operational leadership team to provide at minimum monthly updates on deliverables (an example would be a dashboard for spending plans)

+ Reporting responsibilities (Comparative, Division Leaders Support, Budget Tracking)

+ Internal Audit - Review work of accounting staff, e.g., reports, adjustments, comparative

+ Create OE Process Documentation and ensure compliance with laws, policies, standards, regulations, and recommend process improvements for agency financial procedures

+ Monitor the GL and budget to actual for the refund fund and spending plan for cash flows

Minimum Qualifications:

+ Good knowledge of supervisory practices. Typically gained by at least two years of supervisory experience that required work assignment, direction and monitoring with responsibility (or with significant input) for hiring employees, preparing performance evaluations, and handling grievances or discipline; or successful completion of course(s) or seminars that included all five elements of management: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling.

+ Good knowledge of accounting principles and practices. Typically gained by at least four years of professional work experience as an accountant, or equivalent, applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) OR a bachelor's degree in accounting OR a master's degree in business OR a current professional certification such as a CPA or CGFM.

+ Experience analyzing financial and auditing data. Typically gained through one or more years of experience using financial systems and tools to detect irregularities, explain variances, and ensure accuracy in financial reporting.

+ Experience auditing or designing financial systems. Typically gained by at least one year of professional experience performing financial system audits or working with internal controls in a finance or accounting environment.

+ Experience establishing internal financial or auditing controls. Typically gained by at least one year of professional experience developing, implementing, or evaluating internal control systems within a financial, accounting, or auditing environment.

+ Experience preparing and making oral presentations. Typically gained by at least one year of professional experience delivering presentations in meetings, training, briefings, or public forums, including preparing materials and communicating complex information clearly to diverse audiences.

Minimum Qualification Specialties:

+ Experience: Budget development and budgetary control. Typically gained by at least one year of professional experience preparing, monitoring, and managing budgets, including forecasting expenditures, analyzing variances, and ensuring compliance with financial policies and procedures using Luma (State Enterprise Resource Planning) or a similar system.

+ Experience: Forecasting and cash management in an enterprise accounting environment. Typically gained by at least one year of professional experience preparing cash flow projections, managing liquidity, and analyzing financial trends within a large-scale or complex accounting system.

Why Join Us?

+ OUR VISION: Great people. Helping you. Serving Idaho.

+ OUR MISSION: Benefit Idaho through courteous customer service, education, and fair tax administration.

+ OUR VALUES: Fairness, Accountability, Integrity, Respect.

What Do Our Employees Say About Us?

+ "I love the work-life balance at the Tax Commission because our managers and supervisors are awesome with flexibility."

+ "We work a flexible schedule, Monday through Friday, 40 hours a week. So this schedule has allowed me to do other things in my life."

+ "My favorite part about working for the Tax Commission are the people I get to work with. It's become a family, and I've made lots of lifelong friends."

Follow us on LinkedIn or Facebook to learn more about us! Questions? Contact us at [email protected] or 208-334-0478.

What's In It for You?

+ Affordable benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance

+ PERSI defined benefit retirement plan

+ Paid sick and vacation leaves start accruing your first day

+ 11 paid holidays per year

+ Paid Parental Leave covering the birth or adoption of a child for up to 8 weeks

+ Permanent, full-time classified employment status after successful completion of an entrance probation

+ Working in an office environment with other talented and highly motivated individuals

+ Beautiful state campus with lots of free parking, walking paths, and centrally located in the valley on Chinden Blvd. in Boise

+ The State of Idaho is a qualifying employer for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

EEO/ADA/Veteran:

The State of Idaho is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, political affiliation or belief, sex, national origin, genetics, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The State of Idaho is committed to access and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities, auxiliary aids and services are available upon request. If you require an accommodation at any step in our recruitment process, you are encouraged to contact (208) 334-2263 (TTY/TTD: 711), or email[email protected].

Preference may be given to veterans who qualify under state and federal laws and regulations.

Supplemental Information:

+ The starting rate for this position $40.00 per hour.

+ Applicant resumes must demonstrate how they meet both the Minimum Qualifications AND the Minimum Qualification Specialties listed on this job announcement.

+ When completing the online application, be sure to be thorough and complete all of it. For example, be sure to complete the Reference Section (professional references preferred).

+ Current State of Idaho Employees: Please apply through Luma Opportunities to avoid duplicate profiles and delays in processing.

+ As mentioned above, this position is located at the Boise Office on the Chinden Campus located at 11321 W. Chinden Blvd, Building 2.