Alameda County Looking for Financial Services Director, SSA at Oakland, CA Full Time

Introduction

THIS IS A NEW ASSEMBLED EXAMINATION. The eligible list resulting from this examination will cancel any existing list and may last approximately one year, but can be extended. Applications must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Applications will only be accepted on-line.

Supplemental Questionnaire: A properly completed Supplemental Questionnaire must be submitted with each application. Applications and Supplemental Questionnaires must be in the possession of the Human Resource Services Department by 5:00 p.m. on the Last Day for Filing. Applications will only be accepted on-line. Postmarks are not accepted. Failure to submit the Application or Supplemental Questionnaire will result in disqualification.

DESCRIPTION

Alameda County Social Services Agency is searching for a Financial Services Director to oversee and direct the financial operations of the Agency. This responsibility includes planning, developing, implementing and monitoring over a $900 million dollar budget that funds over 40 programs, directing and supervising proper accounting and fiscal monitoring systems; oversight of recipients’ payroll operations; contract services; and grant administration and welfare claims.

The Social Services Agency consists of the following four departments whose mandated services include:

• Workforce and Benefits Administration administers the eligibility and disbursement of mandated assistance programs and provides the required employment and support services for public assistance recipients. · Children and Family Services provides emergency response and shelter services as well as investigative, maintenance, reunification, and permanent placement services and administer the Foster Care Program.
• Adult and Aging Services provides Adult Protective, Public Guardian/Conservator/Administrator, and Older American/Californian Acts services. AAS also administers in Home Supportive Services (IHSS), Regular Medi-Cal and Long Term Care programs and operates the Area on Aging and Veteran Services Office.
• Administration and Finance provides support to Agency departments and staff through various administrative areas such as Government and Community Relations, Human Resources and Training, Finance and General Accounting and general Office Support Services.

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THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications, the Financial Services Director will have a solid history of:

Overseeing budget preparation, including planning, organizing, and directing a large organization’s budgeting process, line-item budgeting systems and a thorough understanding of current trends in health and welfare fiscal operations, including utilizing computer applications related to financial analysis and accounting.

Practicing techniques of financial analysis, including conducting budgetary, contract and grant administration and financial recordkeeping and reporting practices and performing cost/benefit analyses.

Researching, compiling and summarizing varied information, evaluating alternatives and reaching sound conclusions.

Understanding fiscal impacts of legislation and state memoranda related to state and county allocation formulas.

Effectively implementing management principles and practices when providing employee supervision. Effectively plan, supervise, review and evaluate the work of others either directly or through subordinate supervision.

Communicating effectively, including the ability to write complex technical reports and conduct effect meetings and representing the department and the County in meetings with others.

Being a politically astute leader, possessing the skills necessary for identifying, navigating and successfully interacting within the dynamics of the organization while maintaining sensitivity to the competing needs of a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders with strong interpersonal skills required to develop an effective, cohesive accounting and fiscal team.

Performing as a strong collaborator, adept in identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships to help achieve agency goals and building effective collaborative environment with internal and external stakeholders.

Being an innovative thinker who combines ideas in unique ways and can explore situations from multiple perspectives.

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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
Possession of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a degree in accounting; business administration, public administration, or a closely related field.

AND

Experience:
The equivalent of four years of progressively responsible experience in a management or administrative capacity which included fiscal and budget activities, two years of which required considerable independent judgment in financial policy development and interpretation. (Additional professional financial or administrative experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree on a year for year basis.)

NOTE: The Civil Service Commission may modify the above Minimum Qualifications in the announcement of an examination.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

The most suitably qualified candidates will possess the following competencies:

Knowledge of:

• Health or welfare funding sources.
• Budget preparation, including line item budgeting systems and current trends in health or welfare fiscal operations, including legislation and state memoranda influencing state to county allocation formulas.
• Management principles and practices including employee supervision.
• Principles of accounting.
• Practices and techniques of financial analysis.
• Budgetary, contract and grant administration and financial recordkeeping and reporting practices.
• Computer applications related to financial analysis and accounting.

Ability to:

• Write and speak effectively, including the ability to write complex technical reports and conduct effective meetings.
• Administer a large staff performing technical accounting functions.
• Perform cost/benefit analyses.
• Research, compile and summarize varied information, evaluate alternatives and reach sound conclusions.
• Provide leadership to the planning, organization and direction of the budgeting process of the appropriate agency.
• Plan, supervise, review and evaluate the work of others either directly or through subordinate supervision.
• Represent the department and the County in meetings with others.

EXAMINATION COMPONENTS

The examination will consist of the following steps:
A review of candidates’ application to verify possession of minimum requirements. Those candidates who possess the minimum requirements for the class will move on to the next step in the examination process.

A review of candidates’ supplemental questionnaire to select the best qualified applicants to continue in the process.

An oral interview which will be weighted as 100% of the candidates’ final examination score. The oral interview may contain situational exercises.

Candidates must attain a qualifying rating on each portion of this recruitment.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCED EXAMINATION STEPS.

Alameda County utilizes a Civil Service Selection System founded on merit. Such a system is competitive and based on broad recruitment efforts and equal opportunity for qualified applicants to test in an examination process designed to determine the qualifications, fitness and ability of competitors to perform duties of the vacant position. Many of our recruitments are targeted and specific to the needs of a current vacant position, in which case, the eligible list may be exclusively used for that current vacant position. Other recruitments may be more broadly used for both current and future vacancies, or for other alternate jobs with comparable scopes of work.

To learn more about our recruitment and selection process, please visit the “What You Need to Know” section of our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.

Selection Plan

Applicants will be informed via email with reasonable notice in advance of any examination process which will require their attendance. The following dates are tentative and subject to change based on the needs of the Agency:

TENTATIVE SELECTION PLAN

Deadline for Filing:
5:00 PM, Friday, February 10, 2023

Review of Applications for Minimum Qualifications:
Week of February 21, 2023

Review of Supplemental Questionnaire for Best Qualified:
Week of March 6, 2023

Oral Examination*:
Week of March 20, 2023

• If designated as a combined oral examination/hiring interview, in addition to establishing an eligibility list, the oral interviews may serve as the final selection interview for vacancies in this classification.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE ANNOUNCED RECRUITMENT & SELECTION PLAN.

Alameda County and the Human Resource Services Department will make reasonable efforts in the examination and/or selection process to accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities and/or medical conditions in accordance/compliance with the State Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Alameda County’s Reasonable Accommodation Policy and applicable statutes. To request an accommodation due to a disability/medical condition during this or other phases of the examination/selection process, please contact the assigned Human Resources Representative listed on the job announcement before the last date of filing. Alameda County requires applicants to provide supporting documentation to substantiate a request for reasonable accommodation. In order to qualify for a reasonable accommodation, applicants must have a disability/medical condition pursuant to the ADA, FEHA and applicable statutes.

For more information regarding our Reasonable Accommodation procedures, please visit our website, www.acgov.org/hrs.

BENEFITS

Alameda County offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that affords wide-ranging health care options to meet the different needs of a diverse workforce and their families. We also sponsor many different employee discount, fitness and health screening programs focused on overall well being. These benefits include but are not limited to*:

For your Health & Well-Being

Medical – HMO & PPO Plans

Dental – HMO & PPO Plans

Vision or Vision Reimbursement

Share the Savings

Basic Life Insurance

Supplemental Life Insurance (with optional dependent coverage for eligible employees)

Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

County Allowance Credit

Flexible Spending Accounts – Health FSA, Dependent Care and Adoption Assistance

Short-Term Disability Insurance

Long-Term Disability Insurance

Voluntary Benefits – Accident Insurance, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Services

Employee Assistance Program

For your Financial Future

Retirement Plan – (Defined Benefit Pension Plan)

Deferred Compensation Plan (457 Plan or Roth Plan)

For your Work/Life Balance

11 paid holidays

Floating Holidays

Vacation and sick leave accrual

Vacation purchase program

Management Paid Leave**

Catastrophic Sick Leave

Group Auto/Home Insurance

Pet Insurance

Commuter Benefits Program

Guaranteed Ride Home

Employee Wellness Program (e.g. At Work Fitness, Incentive Based Programs, Gym Membership Discounts)

Employee Discount Program (e.g. theme parks, cell phone, etc.)

Child Care Resources

1st United Services Credit Union

• Eligibility is determined by Alameda County and offerings may vary by collective bargaining agreement. This provides a brief summary of the