What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Manager position at State of North Carolina?
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This position is part of the Division of Child and Family Well-Being. The Division of Child and Family Well-Being is a new division at the NC Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) that focuses on supporting whole child and family health and well-being for North Carolinians with several sections, including the Community Nutrition Services Section (CNSS) where this position is located. The primary purpose of this managerial position is to provide fiscal, business, and systems analysis for the federal nutrition programs managed by the CNSS including the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and subsidiary programs with a cumulative budget of approximately $380,000,000 annually. The position is responsible for understanding and assuring compliance with federal and state administrative regulations/policies across program/grant areas as well as directing all administrative activities. Duties include: financial forecasting, grants management, federal reporting, budget management, contracts management, reconciliation of all grants and activities, establishing internal controls, oversight of accounts payable activities, financial systems (requirements, testing, interfaces, and reporting), and ensuring Standard Operating Procedures are maintained. The position serves as the fiscal contact with programmers/technical contractors, business office, contracts office, human resources, auditors, contractors, and various offices at the DHHS Controller’s Office.
This position serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the finance modules for the WIC management information systems (MIS), eWIC (EBT) system, Aid to County, and will serve as the primary contact for CNSS for the State’s new accounting system. This position is responsible for financial forecasting, aligning funds, and developing budget plans. This position is also responsible for invoicing receipt based contractors according to the terms of contracts.
This position is responsible for directing and coordinating all day-to-day administrative activities, in addition to special projects, for the programs administered by CNSS. The position manages a team that has unique roles and responsibilities.
About the NC Division of Child and Family Well-Being:
The Division of Child and Family Well-Being (DCFW) brings together complementary NC Department of Health and Human services to support North Carolina’s children growing up safe, healthy, and thriving in nurturing and resilient families and communities.
Compensation and Benefits:
The State of North Carolina offers excellent comprehensive benefits. Employees can participate in health insurance options, standard and supplemental retirement plans, and the NCFlex program (numerous high-quality, low-cost benefits on a pre-tax basis). Employees also receive paid vacation, sick, and community service leave. In addition, paid parental leave is available to eligible employees. Visit website for benefits.To receive credit for all of your work history and credentials, you must list the information on the application form. Any information listed under the text resume section or on an attachment will not be considered for qualifying credit. Qualified applicants must document on the application that they possess all of the following:
- Considerable knowledge of accounting practices, grants management, human resources, purchasing, budget, and accounting practices and procedures.
- Ability to select, train, supervise, and develop employees to ensure operational excellence.
Ability to analyze and interpret regulations/policies (state and federal) and implement policies and procedures to ensure program compliance. - Ability to demonstrate initiative, apply critical thinking skills, problem solve, act independently, and exercise judgement to produce results under time constraints and with multiple competing priorities.
- Experience with performing financial modeling and/or forecasting and developing financial documents/reports independently.
Employee’s decisions directly affect funding at the State and local agency levels, system integrity, and ability to operate statewide programs effectively. Errors could directly result in the State Agency being put in a payback situation. All work, issues, and problem resolution require documented justification in order to assure a sound decision has been made. The Section is heavily audited by USDA both fiscally and programmatically, State Audit, and Internal Audit. Errors caused by this position could result in audit findings, under or over payments, and potential payback situations.
Management Preferences
- Three years of comprehensive experience with North Carolina Accounting Systems.
- Developing administrative processes and procedures, as well as evaluating their effectiveness.
- Three years of recent supervisory experience of a diverse team.
- Experience with developing business requirements, system testing, or reconciling financial data across systems.
- Master’s degree in a related area from an accredited institution with 3 years of progressive related experience.
- Sedentary office position
Bachelor s degree in accounting, business, finance or other discipline related to the area of assignment from appropriately accredited institution and three years of progressive related experience, in which, two years should be in a supervisory role.
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An equivalent combination of education and experience.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) selects applicants for employment based on job-related knowledge, skills, and abilities without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, political affiliation or political influence. Pre-Employment criminal background checks are required for some positions.
Division of Public Health (DPH) main locations, including their grounds, are tobacco-free as outlined in the Tobacco-free Campus Policy. All tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, e-hookahs, “vape products” and all smokeless tobacco products, may not be used in the indicated areas. For more information, please see the policy and FAQ posted here:
http://publichealth.nc.gov/employees/
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For technical issues with your application, please call the NeoGov Help Line at 855-524-5627. Applicants will be communicated with via email only for updates on the status of their application. If there are any questions about this posting other than your application status, please contact HR, 919-707-5450.
Please refer to the link below for additional information:
https://oshr.nc.gov/work-nc/how-do-i-get-job
Salary : $64,621 - $113,088
