Financial Management Manager (Fiscal Services Administrator V)

Financial Management Manager (Fiscal Services Administrator V) – Grade 23

Executive Service

(This position serves at the pleasure of the Appointing Authority)

Join the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration (MDOT MVA) as our next Financial Management Manager (Fiscal Services Administrator V) and bring your analytical mindset, leadership strength, and financial acumen to a dynamic environment. You’ll manage key financial functions, partner with executive leadership, and help drive data-informed decisions that support statewide operations. This is your opportunity to lead with influence, advance your career, and make a meaningful impact in public-sector finance.

This position is a Fiscal Services Administrator within the Financial Management Division with management responsibility in various aspects of the Division’s ongoing operations. The core responsibilities of this position include leadership of the financial management division, advanced level budgeting, ongoing financial management including variance analyses and monthly budget forecasting, auditing, and financial analyses and modeling including compilations of fiscal notes for Bills presented by the legislature. These tasks are critical for the Division to carry out its mission effectively.

This position is essential to the development, preparation and management of the agency’s budget to ensure attainment of sufficient budgetary resources with a $266 million operating/capital budget. The incumbent is relied upon to provide informed analysis and oversight of the budget process from its initial development to its ongoing execution. Financial management responsibilities are also a significant aspect of this position. This includes monitoring incoming agency revenues to ensure adherence to the agency’s legislative cost recovery mandate and developing corrective action when needed, oversight of the agency’s State/Federal grant financial reporting requirements and development of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) schedules.

Some of the essential duties of the Financial Management Manager include, but are not limited to the following:

• Developing, formulating, preparing, and managing of the agency’s budget to ensure attainment of sufficient budgetary resources. The incumbent is relied upon to provide informed analysis and oversight from its initial formulation to its ongoing execution
• Ongoing financial management including variance analyses and monthly budget forecasting, auditing, and financial analyses and modeling including compilations of fiscal notes for Bills presented by the legislature.
• Monitoring the cost recovery modal which tracks the level of MVA miscellaneous fee collections to ensure compliance with legislative mandate and monitoring the collection of revenue by the Administration to make certain that the collection of miscellaneous fee revenue is sufficient to meet the level required by legislative mandate.
• Managing the agency’s financial resources appropriately and efficiently. There are three (3) areas where this information comes from. Ensuring adherence to the agency’s cost recovery mandate, providing oversight of the agency’s State/Federal grant (non-Maryland Highway Safety grants) financial reporting, and the development of General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) schedules.
• Performing detail auditing functions as part of the responsibilities. This includes ongoing expense/revenue reconciliations of the agency’s MHSO federal grant funding as well as ongoing reviews of financial data in FMIS to ensure proper coding of expenses/revenues
• Performing various types of financial analyses on a as needed basis. These analyses are used by TSO for budget purposes, by MVA senior/mid-level management for decision making purposes, and by other internal/external customers for informational purposes.

The current vacancy exists at MDOT MVA in the Office of Financial Management, which is located in Glen Burnie, MD. (Anne Arundel County).

This position may allow a hybrid work schedule, including telework and on-site work hours.

MDOT offers a generous and competitive benefits package. You can learn about our amazing benefits here: MDOT Benefits

Preferred Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, or a closely related field is required

Experience: Six (6) years of professional experience in budget administration, governmental accounting, financial management, auditing, or fiscal analysis, preferably within a public-sector or large, complex organization. Three (3) years of supervisory experience.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• Strong knowledge of state budgeting processes, fund structures, and expenditure/revenue controls.
• Expertise in financial analysis, forecasting, and modeling.
• Ability to interpret complex fiscal data and provide clear, actionable recommendations to leadership.
• Strong analytical and auditing skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver accurate work in a deadline-driven environment.
• Excellent communication skills to convey financial information to non-financial audiences.

Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which may require the operation of a motor vehicle. 

To Apply:
Submit a DTS-1 application online at: http://agency.governmentjobs.com/mdotmd. The application must be complete at the time of submission and must clearly describe the required work experience. Dates (month and year) must be stated. Vague descriptions of experience will not be considered. Please include all relevant experience on your application. This includes, but is not limited to, full or part time, volunteer, military, acting capacity, or any other experience that is relevant to the position you are applying for. Description of duties that state, "see resume" will negatively impact consideration for this position. Applicants will not be contacted for additional information. Only applicants considered for this position will be contacted. Applications submitted online must be received by 11:59 PM if a closing date is noted. If you have general questions regarding employment opportunities with the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), please call 410-787-7719.

Applicants who have education obtained outside of the U.S. will be required to provide proof of the equivalent U.S. Education as determined by a foreign credential evaluation service, such as the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (http://www.naces.org) or World Education Services: International Credential Evaluation (https://www.wes.org/).

The MVA is not sponsoring new employees in application of the H-1B Visa or providing an extension of an existing H-1BVisa at this time due to budgetary constraints. All applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Federal regulations prohibit H1B Visa candidates from paying sponsorship fees, all sponsorship fees must be assumed by the potential employer.

The MVA is an equal opportunity employer. The MVA does not discriminate based on age, ancestry, color, creed, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religious affiliation, belief or opinion, sex, or sexual orientation.
The incumbent in this position is not a member of a covered bargaining unit.

The State of Maryland is dedicated to a drug-free workplace, and as a result, employees are subject to the State's Substance Abuse Policy to include possible drug testing. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request.

The selected candidate may be subject to background and reference checks. A conviction is not an automatic disqualification to employment. Erroneous, misleading, or fraudulent information on an application is sufficient grounds for rejection from the hiring process, withdrawal of an offer for employment or immediate discharge.

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Issued: 12/03/2025