Job Description

Requisition No: 884590 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYST IV (WORKING TITLE: DATA / REPORTING ANALYST) - 43005020

 Pay Plan: SES

Position Number: 43005020 

Salary: $65,000.00 - $90,000.00 

Posting Closing Date: 10/14/2026 

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*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

CLASS TITLE: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYST IV

WORKING TITLE: DATA / REPORTING ANALYST

DIVISION: PALM PROJECT

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

What is the Florida PALM Project?
The Florida PALM Project is an enterprise project to replace the State of Florida’s legacy accounting, payroll, information warehouse, and cash management systems, using an enterprise resource planning solution. The replacement of the cash management systems, known as the CMS Wave, was completed in July 2021. The next major implementation, the Financials, Payroll, and Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Wave, is currently underway and scheduled for Go-Live in January 2027. The Department of Financial Services is leading this statewide initiative, which impacts stakeholders and users of the State’s financial data, including all State agencies.

Who are we?
We are an innovative team of experts specializing in financial operations, business analysis, project management, change management and stakeholder relations. Working as part of the team at Florida PALM provides a great opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization that strongly supports its employees’ professional growth and development through training opportunities and knowledge sharing. You will also be able to see your work directly supporting the transformation of business processes for the Florida State government.

Why work with Florida PALM?
Florida PALM is the State of Florida’s next-generation financial management platform, built on PeopleSoft, a technology that is used by national and international organizations across many industries to support a broad range of business and accounting functions.

Florida PALM is already a valuable part of Florida’s financial management processes. Since the CMS Wave Go-Live, the Florida PALM Solution Center has supported over 1,000 users across 35 agencies.

The next implementation will expand to over 3,000 users and integrate with more than 200 business systems, covering all major financial processes such as accounting, budgeting, payroll, and reporting.

Following this rollout, a dedicated support team will maintain and enhance the system through regular updates and new capabilities. Members of the Florida PALM Team experience valuable professional growth opportunities in areas like technology, project management, and change management – equipping them with skills that are highly transferable.

Check out this “We are Hiring” flyer, located on our Project Team page, for more helpful information.

To learn more about the Florida PALM Project Team, visit our Project Team page:

Requirements:

• Four (4) years of relevant experience in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, and Computer Science is required. A post-secondary degree in those fields may be used as an alternative for the experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Three (3) years of experience in auditing, accounting, financial reporting and/or technical experience in (i.e. requirements gathering, data analysis, development, testing and implementation) for accounting systems.
• The selected candidate must be able and willing to work onsite at the Project Site in Tallahassee, FL 100% of the time.

Preferences:

• Experience in creating financial or operating reports.

• Experience working with large sets of data for analysis or report building.
• Experience with financial statements.

Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge and skill in the areas of legacy (e.g. file-based, batch) and modern (e.g. SOA) integration architectures and interoperability standards, patterns, and protocols; Knowledge and skill in the areas of commercial off the shelf (“COTS”) integration applications and solutions; Knowledge and skill in the areas of conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling and service-oriented modeling; Knowledge and skill in the areas of data and integration governance programs, policies, and procedures; Knowledge of business analysis, technical analysis, and problem solving techniques; Knowledge of software design, development processes, and documentation; Knowledge of software requirement management and testing techniques; Skill in translating technical concepts to business audience and business information to a technical audience; Skill in Microsoft Suite products (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook) and Visio software; Ability to document and analyze user requirements; Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with application end-users; Ability to provide mentoring and facilitate teamwork.

SPECIAL NOTES:

This position requires full-time physical presence at our Florida PALM Project office located in Tallahassee, Florida. Telework or remote work arrangements will not be allowed under any circumstances.

In order to be considered for this position, applicant responses to the qualifying questions, and work experience must be clearly defined within your work history, or the application may not be considered for the position.

To maintain fairness and integrity, applicants are required to provide honest and authentic responses during all stages of the evaluation and selection process. Applicants must rely on their own personal knowledge, thoughts, and impressions. A candidate’s use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to answer qualifying questions or participate in interviews will be taken into consideration when determining qualification for the position.

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.

Salary Range: $65,000.00 - $90,000.00.

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES :

Objective:

This position assists in the execution of the Department of Financial Services’ responsibilities for the Florida PALM Project and serves as a state subject matter expert and exercises discretion and independent judgement with respect to reporting, data analytics and conversion or matters of significance in one or more of the following Process Areas: Accounts Management and Financial Reporting (AMFR); Accounts Receivable (AR); Asset Accounting and Management (AAM); Budget Management (BM); Cash Management (CM); Disbursement Management (DM); Payroll Management (PM); Project and Grants Management (PGM); Revenue Accounting (RA); or Treasury Management (TM).

This position deals with complex policies and procedures associated with the implementation of the State’s financial management solution. It requires technical knowledge of FLAIR and other FFMIS subsystems and general knowledge regarding financial management practices and procedures. This position exercises independent judgment in formulating or assisting in the formulation of policies and procedures that affect budgeting, accounting, auditing and reporting of public funds. Extensive knowledge of Florida statutes and rules is necessary to develop and direct the policies and procedures used to implement a financial management solution.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

Operational

• Working with supervisors and leadership to establish priorities and due dates for work assignments and keeping them up to date on key work items.
• Communicating concerns and executive contact immediately to your supervisor and/or project director.
• Managing all deadlines in an organized manner to ensure timely completion of fully developed work products.
• Applying critical thinking (e.g., don’t just solve the problem at hand, solve the core problem).
• Adhering to DFS policies at all times (e.g., security, dress code, ethics).
• Working as a team player and demonstrating a “teamwork” attitude and professional demeanor.
• Preparing presentation materials and leading meetings with state agencies and other stakeholders.
• Presenting at executive steering committee meetings and/or advisory council meetings as requested.
• Attending conferences, conventions, etc. to extend knowledge of accounting and ERP principles, processes and changes.
• Reviewing and providing input on current and proposed state and federal statutes and rules, and regulation changes (e.g., GASB standards) to determine impact to Project requirements.
• Working with the financial management solution software implementation vendor, and other project resources (including contractors) to ensure adherence to State standards and established procedures for maintaining data and information accuracy and security.
• Serving as the subject matter expert in the accounting and financial management functions for the Florida PALM Project.
• Addressing the accounting and financial management functions, responsibilities, and needs of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and of the state agencies. 
• Assisting prepare required reports (e.g., proviso or statutory reports).
• Working collaboratively with project team members, DFS business owners, state agency business owners and other stakeholders to ensure functional designs and configurations are developed to meet business requirements and result in the development of a user-friendly and comprehensive solution.
• Consulting with subject matter experts, business users, and stakeholders of the financial management solution, researching statewide problems and recommending solutions to effect statewide implementation of the financial management solution.

Project Management and System Release Responsibilities

• Ensuring the “How Met” for requirements satisfies the needed functionality.
• Ensuring the technical requirements satisfy the functionality needed.
• Making decisions on design functionality and business requirements.
• Conducting in-depth analysis and documentation for system configuration and reporting.
• Completing system configuration where assigned.
• Leading functional reviews for design, testing and other related activities, where assigned.
• Developing and executing test scripts to ensure system and reporting functionality meets the functional and technical requirements.
• Assisting with user-acceptance testing sessions with state agencies and enterprise partners.
• Assisting agencies and enterprise partners in understanding business process change impacts.
• Assisting in training state agencies and enterprise partners.
• Assist with data conversions, including the collection and organization of data.
• Developing and assisting develop ad hoc queries to assist in reconciling accounts, identifying trends and other analysis as needed.
• Identifying risk and issues, design requirements, or otherwise
• Managing deliverables and work products to ensure compliance with the Project PMP and schedule.
• Providing input on activities to include in the Project schedule.
• Providing weekly updates to the Projects PMO on assigned schedule items.

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending upon the date of your retirement.

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.

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