Financial Analyst

Description

Location: Las Vegas, NV
Employment Type: Full-Time
Category: Finance

About Workforce Connections:
Workforce Connections, Southern Nevada’s Local Workforce Development Board, oversees the One-Stop Delivery System for the Local Workforce Development Area. We are committed to fostering a collaborative, innovative, and impactful work environment. As a Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada (PERS) agency, we offer excellent employer-paid benefits and a strong company culture.

Position Overview:
The Financial Analyst is responsible for planning, organizing, and conducting a variety of fiscal, budgetary, analytical, and liaison functions to support Workforce Connections. This role includes maintaining financial records, monitoring financial activities of service providers, and ensuring compliance with financial guidelines. The Financial Analyst will also provide training, verify invoices, reconcile grants, and prepare financial reports to support the organization's operations and initiatives under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).

Key Responsibilities:

Essential Job Functions

• Perform financial functions for the Workforce Development Board, including maintaining financial records and preparing operational and budget reports.
• Review invoices from service providers, analyzing and reconciling contract expenditures.
• Conduct desk and on-site monitoring reviews of service providers' financial activities, reporting findings and documenting corrective actions. Serve as a full member of the fiscal monitoring team.
• Process, code, and pay accounts payable invoices.
• Track expenditures on all professional service contracts.
• Process, verify, and run payroll as needed.
• Analyze and approve service providers' employment, training, personnel, and operational invoices for payment; reconcile related grants and contracts.
• Conduct technical, operational, and analytical studies related to Workforce Development Board's financial activities.
• Organize, process, and maintain payment documentation and service provider remittance data.
• Provide support for the year-end audit.
• Process electronic vendor and service provider payments via ACH; research and resolve any exceptions.
• Compile and review budget figures for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with policies and procedures.
• Analyze and interpret budget documents relating to Workforce Development Board grants.
• Support non-WIOA grants by providing reporting, invoicing, supporting documentation, and fulfilling grant-related requirements.
• Provide technical assistance and training to service providers on financial support activities, including compliance with rules and regulations related to government budgeting, expenditure and revenue projection, cost controls, and contract administration.
• Ensure office attendance and regular and consistent attendance as required.
• Manage confidential information.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Work Activities

• Provide fiscal support and oversight to funded partners.
• Perform internal accounting duties, including financial analysis and reconciliation.

Requirements

Abilities

• Knowledge of Budgeting and Accounting: Understand the principles and practices of budget development, grant accounting, and financial record-keeping. Ability to apply fiscal principles and explain applicable laws, codes, and regulations.
• Grants and Contract Administration: Knowledge of accounting for grants and principles of contract administration.
• Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with federal and state laws, statutes, policies, and regulations related to workforce investment boards and the Workforce Investment Act.
• Problem Solving and Analysis: Ability to analyze problems, identify and evaluate alternatives, and develop sound, effective approaches.
• Planning and Review: Ability to plan, direct, and review the work of others, implement goals and objectives, and evaluate their achievement.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, and to explain complex financial information clearly.

Work Environment

• Requires working indoors in an office environment with controlled conditions.
• Exposure to sounds and noise levels that may be distracting or uncomfortable.
• Job tasks are performed in proximity to others.
• Essential and marginal functions may require walking, standing, sitting for prolonged periods, and occasional travel.
• Requires repetitive movements, face-to-face discussions, use of electronic mail, phone conversations, and coordination with others.
• Requires being highly accurate, meeting strict deadlines, and making independent decisions.

Experience and Education

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field preferred.
• Experience: At least four years of experience in public or private finance or accounting, with at least two years of experience with a public agency administering grants.
• Equivalent Experience: A combination of formal education and directly related work experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position may substitute for the degree.

Skills

• Basic Skills: Active learning, data entry, active listening, reading comprehension, speaking, and strong writing skills. Maintain mental capacity for sound decision-making.
• Social Skills: Effective interaction and coordination with others. Ability to maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations.
• Problem Solving Skills: Ability to solve complex problems and maintain effective visual and audio perception.
• Systems Skills: Judgment, decision-making, and demonstrating intellectual capabilities.
• Resource Management Skills: Time management and prioritization.
• Desktop Computer Skills: Advanced proficiency in spreadsheets, presentations, internet navigation, word processing, and writing skills.

Knowledge

• Required: Knowledge of accounting, including general ledger, accounts payable, journal entries, budgeting, payroll, accounts receivable, financial statements, and reconciliations. Ability to monitor and audit service providers.
• Computer Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Knowledge of data entry, accuracy, and use of financial software.
• Tools: Ability to operate calculators, desktop computers, scanners, copiers, fax machines, and phone systems.

Other Requirements

• Must possess and maintain a valid state driver’s license throughout employment.

 What We Offer:

• Employer-paid benefits, including healthcare, dental, vision, short/long term disability, term life insurance.
• Enrollment in the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada (PERS).
• Opportunity to make an impact with Southern Nevada’s workforce development system.