Description

Are you a dedicated fiscal professional looking for a challenge?
We encourage you to apply today!

The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), is now accepting applications for a Connecticut Careers Trainee (CCT) position with a target class of Fiscal/Administrative Officer. This opportunity is available in the DOT Core-CT Support/Business Process Improvement Unit within the Department's Bureau of Finance and Administration, located in Newington, CT.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- Visit our State Employee Benefits Overview page!
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- A healthy work/life balance to all employees
- Join an award winning agency! CTDOT has been recently awarded the Employer of the Year award by the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE) and named the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) CT Employer of the Year for 2024!

POSITION HIGHLIGHTS
- Monday - Friday.
- Full-time, 40 hours per week.
- Location: Newington, CT.
- This position is eligible to apply for telework after successful completion of the working test period, and thereafter, in accordance with the Telework Policy. The Policy can be found here. Employees in their initial working test period must work on site in the office. 

THE ROLE
The DOT Core-CT Support/Business Process Improvement Unit is staffed with a blend of Financial and IT professionals that provide the Department with technical support services related to Core-CT, the State’s integrated Human Resources, Payroll and Financial system. Unit responsibilities include daily user support as well as assisting with the financial and human resources reporting needs of the Department’s Bureaus; acting as a liaison between the Department and the central Core-CT Team including coordination of user roles and system access; developing and conducting Core-CT user training for Department employees; ensuring that Core-CT policies and security procedures established by the Office of the State Comptroller are properly followed; and other duties related to analyzing, modifying, and providing other technical support related to DOT-specific Core-CT functions. In addition to agency support of the Core-CT system, the unit provides support in the analysis, development, and implementation of smaller scale technical applications (such as Microsoft Office tools) that help improve efficiency and streamline various Department business processes.

The CCT will assist in providing agency Core-CT system users with support and training and coordinating ongoing financial analysis and reconciliation of the agency’s Core-CT system data to ensure its accuracy.

Key responsibilities for this exciting opportunity may include, but are not limited to:
- Provide customer support to agency users of the Core-CT system, through ticket system.
- Act as backup to the DOT Primary Core-CT Security Liaison
- Coordinate regularly scheduled monitoring of agency transactions and data in the Core-CT system to identify issues; Test and troubleshoot data from Core-CT to ensure integrity of data and results.
- Coordinate analysis, evaluation, error detection, and resolution of issues related to agency Core-CT supply-chain data and transactions, including e-Pros, Purchase Orders and vouchers.
- Coordinate Core-CT Purchasing tasks for agency units without designated staff, as needed.
- Provide Core-CT EPM and STARS module support with creating customized data queries to facilitate development of extensive customized reporting to meet needs of agency users of the Core-CT financial, supply-chain, inventory, and project-related modules.
- Assist agency units with Financial, HR/Payroll and Project related data analysis
- Design external spreadsheets to process and/or transform Core-CT data exports.
- Collaborate with DOT Information Technology staff to troubleshoot user connectivity and/or PC issues.
- Assist with Fiscal Year End tasks, including coordination of required action with agency Core-CT users.
- Coordinate implementation of system configurations and chart field updates related to financial requirements of the agency.
- Act as an agency liaison to the Statewide Core-CT Team.
- Assist in developing and conducting DOT-specific training for all Core-CT modules.
- Assist with financial analysis and business analytics, especially related to maximizing agency use of all Core-CT system modules. This includes business process mapping and business requirement gathering.
- Assist in developing business process improvement solutions tailored to specific requirements of agency units.
- Perform related duties as required.

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates must be able to meet the experience and training requirements of the designated job class at the completion of the development program.