Location
Indianapolis, IN | United States
Job description
Work for Indiana
Grow your career with the State of Indiana! With more than 50 executive branch agencies, the State of Indiana is a diverse workforce offering employees stimulating and challenging projects across a broad scope of career opportunities. As a State of Indiana employee, you impact the well-being of Indiana’s communities every day.
At the State of Indiana, we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion - Our goal is to create a welcoming, accessible, and equitable workplace, with a workforce that is representative of the State of Indiana population. As a proud equal opportunity employer, reasonable accommodations may be available to enable individuals with disabilities to complete the application and interview process, as well as perform the essential functions of a role.
Next Level benefits at the State of Indiana are here! Be sure to review our expanded benefit package offerings below.
About the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE):
The Indiana Department of Education provides innovative support to Indiana schools, teachers, students, and parents. We proactively work with educators, policymakers, business leaders, and community-based organizations to build student success. Our strategic priorities include:
- Delivering quality, purposeful educational opportunities for each student
- Elevating and supporting Indiana’s educators
- Increasing partnerships and delivering aligned, effective, and efficient support
Salary:
This position traditionally starts at an annual salary of $59,800. Salary for this position may be commensurate with education and job experience.
Role Overview:
The Fiscal Analyst supports the Office of School Finance in preparing financial data and reports for submission to the U.S. Department of Education. The analyst utilizes various tools, including scripts, Excel, and analytical techniques, to compile, analyze, and review financial data for both state and federal reporting requirements. In addition to formulating new processes and reports to align with evolving legislation, the analyst must communicate these changes effectively to school business officials.
A Day in the Life:
The essential functions of this role are as follows:
- Assist school corporation business officials to ensure the accurate submission of financial data, conducting regular reviews of accounts, funds, and objects. Utilize manual and automated analysis methods, such as scripts, pivot tables, and spreadsheets to verify data accuracy. Guide accounting practices and submission procedures to ensure timely and precise reporting. Support fellow analysts in reviewing school corporation financial data submissions.
- Compile and analyze school corporation data using scripts and Microsoft Excel for federal reports. This involves gathering report data, analyzing results, and identifying anomalies or outliers. Communicate with school corporation business officials to understand variations in financial data and cross-check the output against system results or previous reports.
- Develop new processes and reports to comply with state and federal legislation requirements. Continuously assess and update methodologies to ensure compliance and efficiency in financial reporting.
- Effectively communicate new processes and legislative requirements to school corporation business officials through presentations and guidance documents, ensuring clarity and understanding.
- Apply approved methodologies for calculating indirect cost rates to financial data, reviewing rate calculations to ensure accuracy before finalizing rates for school corporations.
- Maintain knowledge of the calculations associated with state tuition support and verify the accuracy of system outputs.
The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.
What You'll Need for Success:
You must meet the following requirements to be considered for employment:
- Through knowledge of the theories, principles, and practices of public finance.
- Extensive knowledge of federal and state laws, policies, and procedures as they pertain to public finance programs.
- Extensive knowledge of agency organization, function, and purpose.
- Specialized knowledge of automated fiscal systems.
- Advanced knowledge of computer and software programs and the ability to utilize these skills in assigned job functions.
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Dependability, attention to detail, good time management and multi-tasking skills.
- Flexibility and adaptability to respond quickly to issues and needs.
- Ability to communicate effectively with agency (non-agency) Finance staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage workflow.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Ability to accurately review, track, and analyze financial data.
- Ability to understand and write reports, data collection, and reporting procedures.
- Formulate sound recommendations and make appropriate decisions with the consideration of potential impact on agency programs.
- Ability to analyze and audit fiscal accounts, contracts, records, claims transactions, and financial reports.
- Ability to coordinate the workflow of subordinate employees.
Supervisory Responsibilities/Direct Reports:
This role may serve as a team lead for an assigned work group.
Benefits of Employment with the State of Indiana:
The State of Indiana offers a comprehensive benefit package for full-time employees which includes:
- Three (3) medical plan options (including RX coverage) as well as vision and dental plans
- Wellness Rewards Program: Complete wellness activities to earn gift card rewards
- Health savings account, which includes bi-weekly state contribution
- Flexible work scheduling options, including the potential for hybrid remote work for employees whose work may be performed outside state facilities
- Deferred compensation 457B account (similar to 401k plan) with employer match
- Two (2) fully-funded pension plan options
- A robust, comprehensive program of leave policies covering a variety of employee needs, including but not limited to:
- 150 hours of paid new parent leave
- Up to 15 hours of paid community service leave
- Combined 180 hours of paid vacation, personal, and sick leave time off
- 12 paid holidays, 14 on election years
- Education Reimbursement Program
- Group life insurance
- Referral Bonus program
- Employee assistance program that allows for covered behavioral health visits
- Qualified employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Free Parking for most positions
- Free LinkedIn Learning access
Equal Employment Opportunity:
The State of Indiana is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to recruit, select, develop, and promote employees based on individual ability and job performance. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunity to all people in all aspects of employer-employee relations without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, or veteran status. We will comply with the spirit as well as the letter of all applicable state and federal laws.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, you can request assistance by contacting the Indiana State Personnel Department at [email protected].
The State of Indiana has established a culture that welcomes equity, inclusion, and opportunity for all employees and applicants. We encourage you to apply if you feel you have the transferrable skills to be successful in this position and we look forward to reviewing your application.
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