Description
Performs specialized financial, accounting or planning activities following general project or departmental guidelines, procedures and precedents in support of various financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, financial planning, taxes, consolidations and the like. Conducts assigned financial studies and surveys to collect, summarize and analyze financial actions. Assists in preparing recommendations for policy, procedure, control or action. May assist in interpreting and applying corporate or division level policy and accounting theory. Evaluates and analyzes standard capital expenditures proposals, investment opportunities, profit plans, operating records, financial statements and the like. Assists in the preparation of special studies, reports, analyses, and recommendations in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans, governmental requirements, statistical reports, and business forecasts. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree in a financially related field and 1 to 3 years of experience. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.