Senior Fiscal Advisor: Budget & GAAP Lead

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is seeking a Fiscal Advisor IV to supervise accounting staff and manage financial operations within the Office of Budget and Finance. The role involves overseeing Accounts Payable, ensuring GAAP compliance, and preparing financial documents and reports.

The position emphasizes providing accounting guidance, developing SOPs, and training staff while monitoring contracts, end dates, and regulatory requirements across agency budgets.

Qualifications

• Three years’ experience in compiling, analyzing and reporting on financial data to ensure effective and efficient accounting of funds or to make projections for financial planning.
• Two years' experience in ensuring compliance of financial transactions with budgets, applicable agreements, grants or contracts, and state or federal laws, rules, and regulations.
• One year of experience in analyzing financial problems, developing alternatives, recommending and advising management on solutions.
• Coursework, training and/or work experience in staff supervision which may include performing as a lead worker overseeing the work of others.

Responsibilities

• Reviews and analyzes financial transactions and records to determine accuracy and monitors adherence to agency budget, applicable agreements, grants, or contracts, as well as state or federal laws, rules, and regulations.
• Analyzes, reconciles, and consolidates data to the general ledger from journals, records, and documents; takes trial balances and makes corrections, updates, and adjustments to bring funds into balance and maintains an audit trail.
• Maintains internal controls and applies accounting principles, practices, and standards.
• Provides advice and technical guidance on matters in assigned fiscal function(s).
• Compiles, analyzes and prepares a variety of statements and reports of financial health utilized in financial, budget, and personnel planning.

Skills

Accounts Payable

GAAP

Financial reporting

Data analysis

Staff supervision

Tools

Excel

Accounting software

Job description

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control is seeking a Fiscal Advisor IV to supervise accounting staff and manage financial operations within the Office of Budget and Finance. The role involves overseeing Accounts Payable, ensuring GAAP compliance, and preparing financial documents and reports.

The position emphasizes providing accounting guidance, developing SOPs, and training staff while monitoring contracts, end dates, and regulatory requirements across agency budgets.