GOVERNMENT ANALYST I - 43003274

State of Florida; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Florida's Department in Tallahassee seeks a Government Analyst I to support the Workers’ Compensation division with data analytics and process improvement. The role requires strong analytical abilities, background in business or data analytics, and proficiency with MS Excel/Word or similar tools.

Responsibilities include conducting analyses, documenting requirements, and supporting public records requests. Salary ranges listed; relocation and veteran preferences may apply.

Qualifications

• Four years of equivalent work experience in a relevant field.
• One year of experience eliciting and documenting business processes.
• Knowledge of data analysis software (Tableau, R, MS SQL).

Responsibilities

• Provide management consultant services and guidance based on established practices.
• Establish timetables for specific tasks and conduct regular meetings.
• Conduct studies to analyze problems and recommend corrective actions.
• Support public records requests and data queries for publication.

Skills

Work experience 4y

Requirements analysis 1y

Data analysis tools

Education

Post-secondary degree may substitute years

Tools

Tableau

R

MS SQL

SharePoint

Job description

Requisition No: 887571

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: GOVERNMENT ANALYST I - 43003274

Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43003274

Salary: $43,417.63 - $50,000.00

Posting Closing Date: 11/20/2026

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CLASS TITLE: GOVERNMENT ANALYST I

DIVISION: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

BUREAU: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

Requirements

• Four (4) years of equivalent work experience in a relevant field (business, data analytics, accounting, training, customer service, software development is required. A post-secondary degree may be used as an alternative for years of experience on a year-for-year basis.


• One (1) year of experience eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business processes, software requirements, and specifications.

Preferences

• Experience with any kind of data analysis software, for example Tableau, R, or MS SQL Management Studio’s tools


• One (1) year of experience writing business reports and user/process owner documentation


• Intermediate or advanced proficiency with MS Excel.


• Intermediate or advanced proficiency with MS Word.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing; the ability to communicate technical and data related information effectively; proofread/edit written content to meet grammatical standards;


• Ability to create and evaluate content for DWC websites; knowledge of SharePoint; Change Management and its best practices; and software/content release life cycles (develop, test, promote);


• Ability to process and organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents, and other written materials;


• Excellent time management skills: ability to plan, organize and coordinate work assignments; to identify and define tasks to complete assignments and projects, to determine work priorities and ensure proper completion of work assignments by planning, prioritizing, and coordinating work assignments;


• Experience working in team oriented, collaborative environments, establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with others;


• Knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis. Ability to collect, evaluate, and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document workflows and other activities relating to the improvement of management practices.

OTHER KSAs (Incumbent May Learn On Job)

• Ability to collect, evaluate, and analyze data to develop recommendations, solve problems. Ability to execute and modify data queries, having the ability to adjust parameters to meet business users’ requests. Conduct fact find-solving techniques.


• Knowledge of basic management principles and practices.


• Support public records requests by (interacting with the people placing the request, knowing which queries to run that satisfy most of the request and be able to run those routines, bundle it, QA it, and provide it)


• Seek ways to improve the efficiency of high traffic web pages.

Special Notes

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.

The salary range for this position is between $43,417.63 - $50,000.00.

In regard to anticipated starting salary, the Division of Workers’ Compensation typically hires at or near the minimum, unless an incumbent possesses direct and relevant experience in the job, they are a candidate for.

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

Brief Description Of Duties

Provides management consultant services & assistance based upon well-established, accepted practices, theories, techniques, & methodology.

• Establishes timetables for completion of specific tasks. Conduct or participate in regularly scheduled meetings.


• Conducts special studies, inquiries or investigations to analyze problems and issues stemming from management practices and recommends corrective action to agency officials; research and investigate technology to make recommendations/improvements.


• Assisting in preparing manuals and cross-training others in use of new forms, reports, procedures, or equipment, per organizational policy.


• Provide business & technical recommendations for system improvements by analyzing users’ contributions and 3rd party information.


• Support public records requests; present identified data discrepancies and outliers to the appropriate bureaus when collecting the DWC data for publication; execute routine processes to query DWC data in order to provide refreshed data sets for DWC web sites (internal & external);

Provides assistance to agency officials and their staff.

• Promote the most efficient and effective operating objectives for the integrity of the solutions and their related communications


• Perform quality assurance of changes so ensure the solutions meet the requesters’, DWC, and DFS requirements and expectations before publishing or sending the changes to the DWC stakeholders. The content should not contain any objectionable content.

Evaluates and measures the effectiveness of systems against desired program objectives.

• Work with programmers to analyze & test changes for applications by reviewing the requirements, writing test plans/scenarios/cases, as well as coordinating and overseeing the testers’ activities;


• Prepares reports recording results of work performed, technical writing, and operations manuals or procedures guides


• Confers with management officials on studies or recommendations affecting the agency.

Participates in enhancing, refining, and/or creating the Division’s information systems;

• Report on the users' experience using the WC Internet web solutions; Gather and present web analytical statistics for the division and bureaus about web traffic for their specific web pages or web applications;

Make recommendations to improve the efficiency and functionality of the web-based solutions through analysis work

Perform related work as required.

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here . All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.