APD Budget and Financial Analyst

Role Overview

This position serves as the Advanced Planning Department’s Budget and Financial Analyst within the Office of Advance Planning. The position is responsible for independently applying general accounting principles and practices to the development, analysis, verification, monitoring, reconciliation, and reporting of financial activities associated with Maryland’s Advanced Planning Document (APD) portfolio and federally funded Medicaid enterprise initiatives.

What You Will Do

The position develops and reconciles APD budgets and supporting financial records; monitors expenditures, funding utilization, award balances, procurement related expenditures, implementation spending, reimbursables, pass through funding, and budget variances; and prepares State budget documentation, including State Fiscal Year (SFY) Budget Notes and Project Activity Description (PAD) finance documents for the APD Program Cost Accounts (PCAs).

Why It Might Be a Fit

The desired candidate should possess professional accounting experience applying general accounting principles and practices, including account reconciliation, review and analysis of financial transactions, expenditure verification, financial reporting, maintenance of supporting financial documentation, and identification and resolution of accounting discrepancies.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by three credit hours in auditing.
• Two years of experience examining, analyzing and interpreting accounting systems, records and reports by applying generally accepted accounting principles.

Benefits

• STATE OF MARYLAND BENEFITS