Senior Financial Analyst (Remote From Anywhere In Colorado) - 7/2025.

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Description Of Job

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Are you a seasoned financial expert looking for an opportunity to impact and influence fiscal strategy at the highest levels? OIT is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to serve as the primary fiscal authority for assigned services, portfolios, or functional units. In this pivotal role, you'll provide critical consultation to management, embedding your expertise in IT financial management—including purchasing, accounting, contracting, budgeting, rate setting, cost allocations, and legislative compliance—into every transaction.

You will play a key role in shaping our financial landscape, offering expert insights and helping to develop mission-critical systems, processes, and guidelines that directly support our strategic plan. Your analytical skills will be essential as you forecast financial resource requirements for strategic planning, executive and service manager dashboards, and budgeting cycles. Beyond your individual contributions, you'll collaborate closely with other Fiscal Partners, mentoring them, while fostering a strong environment of knowledge sharing across our finance teams to ensure collective success.

Some Of Your Important Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor other Fiscal Partners, sharing knowledge and developing cross-training support.
• Collaborate with service owners to develop strategic concept papers for new funding, working with the Budget Office on state budget requests.
• Analyze financial resource needs for assigned services, providing monthly expenditure and revenue forecasts.
• Develop and defend OIT's position on new funding proposals before oversight committees.
• Interpret new legislation for service impacts and assist Service Managers in creating fiscal notes.
• Provide fiscal authority for assigned services or units.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

Minimum Qualifications

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

• At least five (5) years of experience performing forecasting and budget analysis, and reporting to senior leadership on: forecast, strategic options, and variance analysis.
• Advanced MS Excel or Google sheet skills are required, minimum ability to write macros, create pivot tables, and use formulae.
• Advanced data visualization skills in Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, or Google Looker Studio
  
  

Substitutions

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• At least three (3) years of experience managing multiple state or federal appropriations that include appropriations that have multiple funding sources.
• Advanced SQL (Structured Query Language) skills, including the ability to write queries, manipulate data, and manage relational databases.
  
  

Conditions Of Employment

OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.

Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

Supplemental Information

If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.

We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time, and benefits that allow us all to have fulfilling lives.

Our application process and what to expect after you apply are described in the videos found here .

The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.

This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.