FINANCE & ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR I - SES - 64045277

Requisition No: 874354 

Agency: Department of Health

Working Title: FINANCE & ACCOUNTING DIRECTOR I - SES - 64045277

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 64045277 

Salary:  $88,000 - $92,800 / Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 04/23/2026 

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Title: Finance & Accounting Director I-SES - 64045277

Location: Naples, FL 

 

INTERNAL AGENCY OPPORTUNITY

Applicants accepted only from Florida Department of Health employees, (includes OPS, Career Service, SES or SMS employees). Applicants will not be accepted from outside of the department.

 

Your Specific Responsibilities:

This is a senior key managerial position in Floridia Department of Health in Collier County (DOH-Collier). The incumbent is responsible for the preparation and administration of the DOH-Collier’s budget, program budgets, and operating budget consisting of federal, state, and local sources of revenue. This position is responsible for the oversight of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Contracts and Purchasing. This position spends the majority of the time engaged in supervisory responsibilities. This includes communicating with, motivating, training, and evaluating employees in addition to planning and directing employees’ work. The incumbent has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline subordinate employees or effectively recommend such action. The incumbent will also be required to develop performance expectations, meet with staff regularly to discuss performance, complete performance reviews, maintain work schedules, ensuring proper coverage, and complete timesheets. Contributes to the organization’s culture of performance excellence by actively seeking to improve personal and organizational performance through measurement, analysis, knowledge management, and processes improvements and participation in performance management committees, councils, and/or workgroups.  Continuously demonstrates the Department’s ICARE values.

 

Key Duties:

Budget Development & Administration

• Coordinates, prepares, and submits CHD budgets to DOH and the Board of County Commissioners.
• Prepares, monitors and updates the CHD Spending Plan and Cash Balance report.

• Conducts budget review meetings with program managers.

• Oversees budget entries in FIRS and provides training and support to program managers.

• Plans, compiles data, and prepares the annual County Core Contract for review and approval by CHD leadership.
• Prepares amendments, updates, and monthly/quarterly reports to the Core Contract.
• Coordinates with county staff on Core Contract regarding budget changes or adjustments.
• Ensures required financial reports accompany the CHD monthly county invoice.

• Identify process improvement opportunities and lead initiatives to enhance efficiency and strengthen fiscal integrity.

• Coordinates with departments to identify budget needs for equipment, screenings, and other capital outlay items.
• Prepares Step 2 reallocations and monitors OCA processing to ensure payroll adjustments align with time recorded in the Health Management System.

• Attends RHAC/Ryan White Lead Agency Finance Committee meetings, audits, and provides input on budget and fiscal issues. Monitors HIV/AIDS and Ryan White budgets allocated by the State recommends adjustments.

 

Financial Monitoring, Reporting and Analysis  

• Monitors revenue, expenditures, Schedule C appropriations, and the approved operating budget for accuracy.

• Evaluates CHD and program financial performance, identifying trends, variances, and risks.

• Collects financial data and prepares, analyzes, and interprets financial statements and reports.
• Oversees reconciliation of the State Accounting System and prepares cash analysis for the Administrator report.
• Provides financial health updates to the Administrator, highlighting key fiscal drivers and organizational impacts.
• Communicates funding mechanisms to support informed decision making and strategic planning.
• Reviews and approves financial transactions to ensure revenue, expenditures, refunds, journal transfers, and budget