COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYST IV (WT: TREASURY, AR, CONTRACT, AND GRANT (TRCG) LEAD) - 43002057

About the role

This position assists in the execution of the Department of Financial Services’ responsibilities for the Florida PALM Project and serves as a state subject matter expert and exercises discretion and independent judgement with respect to matters of significance in one or more of the following Process Areas: Accounts Management and Financial Reporting (AMFR); Accounts Receivable (AR); Asset Accounting and Management (AAM); Budget Management (BM); Cash Management (CM); Disbursement Management (DM); Payroll Management (PM); Project and Grants Management (PGM); Revenue Accounting (RA); or Treasury Management (TM).

Responsibilities

• Working with supervisor and leadership to establish priorities and due dates for work assignments and keeping them up to date on key work items.
• Communicating concerns and executive contact immediately to your supervisor and/or project director.
• Managing all deadlines in an organized manner to ensure timely completion of fully developed work products.
• Applying critical thinking (e.g., don’t just solve the problem at hand, solve the core problem).
• Adhering to DFS policies at all times (e.g., security, dress code, ethics).
• Preparing presentation materials and leading meetings with state agencies and other stakeholders.
• Presenting at executive steering committee meetings and or advisory council meetings as requested.
• Attending conferences, conventions, etc. to extend knowledge of accounting and ERP principles, processes and changes.
• Reviewing and providing input on current and proposed state and federal statutes and rules, and regulation changes (e.g., GASB standards) to determine impacts to the Florida PALM solution.
• Serving as the subject matter expert in the accounting and financial management functions of the Florida PALM solution.
• Addressing the accounting and financial management functions, responsibilities, and needs of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and of the state agencies.
• Working collaboratively with Florida PALM team members, DFS business owners, state agency business owners and other stakeholders to ensure functional designs and configurations are developed and maintained to meet business needs and result in the development and maintenance of a user-friendly and comprehensive solution.
• Consulting with subject matter experts, business users, and stakeholders of the financial management solution, researching statewide problems and recommending solutions.
• Making decisions on design functionality.
• Conducting in depth analysis and documentation for system configuration.
• Completing system configuration where assigned.
• Leading functional reviews for design, testing and other related activities for assigned system modules.
• Developing and executing test scripts for assigned system modules to ensure system functionality meets the functional and technical requirements.
• Assisting with user-acceptance testing sessions with state agencies and enterprise partners.
• Developing articles and proposing modifications to existing articles to ensure the Florida PALM Knowledge Center provides end-users with accurate, up to date content.
• Assisting agencies and enterprise partners in understanding business process change impacts.
• Assisting in training state agencies and enterprise partners.
• Identifying risk and issues, design requirements, or otherwise, for assigned system modules.
• Creating, managing, triaging and resolving Tickets within the Florida PALM Ticket Management System for issues identified at all stages (e.g., development, testing, production) of the System Design Life Cycle for the Florida PALM Solution.
• Troubleshooting and fully analyzing identified problems within the Florida PALM Solution, identifying the appropriate action to resolve the problem and leading the action to resolution.
• Analyzing enhancement requests that impact the Florida PALM Solution and making a recommendation on the appropriate action for the enhancement.
• Leading design changes to the functional design portion of Application Development documents as changes are identified.
• Working with the technical resources to update and ensure accuracy of Application Development documents as bug fixes and enhancements are identified and implemented.

Qualifications

• Four (4) years of professional experience in relevant discipline (i.e., Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science is required. A post-secondary degree in those fields may be used as an alternative for the years of experience on a year-for-year basis.
• Two (2) years of experience performing business analysis functions, including working with subject matter experts, business users, or stakeholders to gather information, document expectations, and achieve the desired outcome.
• Four (4) years of experience in accounting or in the management of State financial management processes: accounts receivable, revenue, assets, budget, cash, grants, payroll, disbursements, contracts, projects, financial reporting, or treasury.