DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION
TITLE: Director Finance and Accounting
ORGANIZATIONAL CENTER: The position reports to the Chief Financial Officer.
GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES: Incumbent is responsible for planning, developing, managing, and supporting business policies and systems for the efficient and equitable financing of the states comprehensive Elementary and Secondary educational system.
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND COLLABORATION: The functions of leadership, management and collaboration are to be integrated so as to achieve both product and process objectives. Teamwork and mutually supportive methods are ascribed as successful outcomes and are necessary for providing high quality service and achieving high standards of performance. Work must be conducted in ways that include and involve those who have a stake in the outcome and must ensure that issues related to equity and special needs are addressed in a comprehensive fashion. The context for this work must be strong advocacy for students and schools and a positive commitment to the role of the Department of Education as a central state level advocate.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Works in cooperation with colleagues with considerable latitude for the exercise of initiative and independent judgment; work is reviewed upon completion of results obtained and on collaborative process used in achieving results. The Director is subject to an annual performance assessment.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED: Facilitates, directs, coordinates and assesses the work of professional, technical, and support staff. Work is reviewed in process, as necessary, and upon completion for achievement of desired results and on collaborative processes used in achieving results.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF WORK PERFORMED AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Develops budget policies and strategies for the optimum protection, investments, and allocations of the Departments state and federal resources.
- Establishes and maintains a procurement system in accordance with State purchasing rules that effectively and efficiently expedites the work of the Department.
- Prepares the Departments budget, including tracking and projecting expenditures throughout the fiscal year that incorporates the Departments strategic goals and objectives to ensure a sound financial plan.
- Establishes and implements financial information systems to assure accountability and accurate reporting, as well as to provide key state and local stakeholders with adequate and predictable information.
- Provides oversight and technical assistance to State schools related to policy and procedure development for the planning, preparation, and monitoring of State school budgets to ensure uniformity throughout the State system.
- Performs related work as assigned.