Financial Analyst III – Commerce Finance

About the job

Day-to-day responsibilities of this position: Responsibilities may include: Serve as the primary Finance analyst for assigned divisions, programs, appropriations, and funds. Monitor budgets, expenditures, revenues, available balances, encumbrances, commitments, and other financial activity. Maintain an understanding of the financial condition of assigned programs and identify emerging issues, risks, and funding pressures. Analyze financial activity and identify trends, discrepancies, unusual transactions, and potential financial concerns. Develop expenditure and revenue forecasts and provide supporting analysis and recommendations. Prepare recurring and ad hoc financial reports for Finance leadership, division management, and department executives. Review financial data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and compliance with applicable policies and requirements. Research and resolve discrepancies between financial systems, reports, supporting documentation, and program records. Analyze appropriated funds, dedicated credits, restricted funding, enterprise activity, and other funding structures as assigned. Monitor purchase orders, encumbrances, commitments, and other obligations affecting available funding. Support fiscal year-end closing, reconciliations, carryforward analysis, and fiscal-year transition activities. Develop and maintain budget execution tools, spreadsheets, dashboards, financial models, queries, and management reports. Perform revenue, fee, cost, workload, and cost-recovery analysis. Support development and review of legislative fiscal notes and other legislative financial analysis. Assist with budget requests, funding analyses, legislative information requests, and financial taskings from statewide and department leadership. Research statutes, appropriations, financial records, historical activity, and other information necessary to answer complex financial questions. Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, strengthen controls, reduce manual work, and improve the quality and timeliness of financial information. Develop procedures, documentation, templates, and analytical tools that improve consistency and efficiency. Provide financial guidance and technical assistance to department employees and program managers. Coordinate with accounting, purchasing, budget, division administration, and other state financial partners. Perform advanced financial analysis and special projects with limited supervision.