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Senior Program Analyst

This open competitive advertisement is for a Career Service position located at Central Office in Tallahassee, FL in the Office of Information Technology. The mission of the Office of Technology in the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) is to provide innovative, reliable, and secure technology solutions that support the Department's operations and enhance its efficiency.

Job Duties:

• Prepare and manage spend plan for Office of the CIO.
• Track expenditures, reconcile planned against actual spend, report variances weekly.
• Track spending and record information to deliver weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports of spending progress towards goals.
• Forecast recurring cost for monthly services.
• Prepare LBR Schedule IV-B and clearly present supporting documents in easy-to-read format for executives and legislative staff members.
• Assign and collect LBR Schedule IV-B content from team members and identify tangible benefit savings that are measurable and reportable.
• Perform cost benefit analysis to calculate return on investment.
• Prepare cost estimates for future projects and assist agency directors with estimates for IT costs that are part of non-IT LBRs.
• Assist the IT Purchasing team and the Project Management team within the Office of Information Technology by reviewing project spend plans and large quotes for products and services.
• Provide guidance for preparing, tracking, and reporting expenditures for projects.
• Review and recommend lifecycle costs for quotes requested by agency directors.
• Review of vendor proposals for calculation of Total Cost of Ownership and identify missing components of the proposals.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to understand budget request from the technical IT staff and translate into plain language the requests when communicating with the accounting and budget staff.
• Ability to translate complex IT budget strategies into easy-to-understand graphical presentations.
• Detailed knowledge of IT purchase components including products and services with understanding of state budget categories for expense, OCO, and contracted services.
• Ability to arrange spending request into easy-to-read summaries with supporting documentation when needed.
• Ability to read and understand vendor proposals for delivery of IT products and services; and translate payment schedules into formats used for spending plan tracking and MFMP purchasing.
• Ability to reconcile invoices against spend plans and contract deliverable payment schedules.
• Expert Microsoft Excel skills with working knowledge and the ability to apply knowledge to scenarios using pivot tables, conditional formatting, and formula such as, SUMIF, VLOOKUP, IF, SUBTOTAL, COUNTIF, VALUE, NETWORKDAYS.
• Ability to collect and analyses data using logical formulas and data analysis tools.

Benefits:

• Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays.
• Comprehensive health insurance and life insurance with accidental death and dismemberment benefits.
• Supplemental Dental, Vision, Life, Disability and Hospitalization insurance.
• Tuition-Free college courses.
• Retirement Plans with the Florida Retirement System: Pension Plan (Traditional Retirement Pension Plan) Investment Plan (401(K)-Type Retirement Plan) Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) Deferred Compensation.

Requirements:

• Must possess a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Must have prior experience preparing two or more LBR Schedule IV-B documents, with specific reference to the submission each Schedule IV-B.
• Must have experience with the DMS Telecommunications billing system, CSAB.
• Expert Microsoft Excel skills with working knowledge and the ability to apply knowledge to scenarios using pivot tables, conditional formatting, and formula such as, SUMIF, VLOOKUP, IF, SUBTOTAL, COUNTIF, VALUE, NETWORKDAYS.
• Must have fifteen (15) years of experience with the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for this position. Postsecondary education may substitute for up to four (4) years of the required experience.
• Support of knowledge, skills, and abilities should be demonstrated on the application, in the education, in the work experience, in the work sample, in the interview and/or during reference checks.

Additional Information:

• Background Screening Requirement: The Florida Department of Corrections requires all job applicants and volunteers to pass a Level 2 background check as per Chapter 435, Florida Statutes. This check must be completed before they can start working or volunteering.
• Employment Eligibility: The Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) only hires U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. FDC uses E-Verify to confirm an employee's eligibility to work after completing the I-9 form. The Florida Department of Corrections does not currently support H-1B Visa Sponsorship.
• For online application issues, call the People First Service Center at 1-877-562-7287. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM EST on the closing date.
• Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
• The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.
• Veterans' Preference. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans' Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans' Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans' Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here . All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.