Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

Ventura County Community College District

Salary: $76,008.00 - $104,784.00 Annually

Job Type: Classified

Job Number: 2025-00683a

Location: District Administrative Center (Camarillo CA), CA

Department: DAC/B&AS/Contracts and Grants

Closing: 5/26/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Description

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Under the direction of the Director of Fiscal Services, perform a variety of professional-level budget and accounting work in support of monitoring various district-wide budgets and accounts.

There is currently one full-time (12 month/year, 40 hours/week) vacancy located at the District Administrative Center, pending board approval.

This recruitment is being conducted to establish a list of eligible candidates that will be used to fill district-wide, current and upcoming, non-bilingual and bilingual, confidential, temporary and regular vacancies for the duration of the list, not to exceed one year.

WHERE YOU'LL WORK

The District Administrative Center, centrally located in Camarillo, oversees administrative functions, and provides leadership and services to the three colleges in support of VCCCD's mission.

WHO WE ARE

The Ventura County Community College District (VCCCD) is a public community college district serving residents throughout Ventura County. VCCCD's three colleges - Moorpark College, Oxnard College, and Ventura College - offer programs for transfer to four-year colleges and universities; career technical training, basic skills instruction; as well as community service, economic development, and continuing education for cultural growth, life enrichment, and skills improvement.

The Ventura County Community College District recognizes that a diverse community of faculty, staff, and administrators promotes academic excellence and creates an inclusive educational and work environment for its employees, contractors, students, and the community it serves. With the understanding that a diverse community fosters multicultural awareness, promotes mutual understanding and respect, and provides role models for all students, VCCCD is committed to recruiting and employing a diverse and qualified group of administrators, faculty, and staff members who are dedicated to the success of all college students.

The Ventura County Community College District does not engage in any employment practice that discriminates against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of ethnic group identification, race, color, language, accent, immigration status, ancestry, national origin, political beliefs, age, gender, sex, religion, transgender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, and/or physical or mental disability.

Representative Duties

• Review, audit, monitor, and approve a variety of accounting and budgeting work from personnel at the colleges, accounts payable, and payroll, including purchasing requisitions, invoices, account reconciliations, restricted budgets, budget adjustments, and various reports; ensure reporting deadlines are met in a timely fashion. E
• Verify, reconcile, balance, and adjust a wide variety of complex district-wide accounts, including capital project funds, district accounts receivable, deferred revenue, liability, and other accounts as assigned. E
• Prepare complex general journal entries, including all year-end closing entries for restricted funds. E
• Prepare and examine a wide variety of reports and statements, including grant expenditure reports, financial statements, budget variances, and reports of historical trends for program directors, management, and granting agencies; submit expenditure reports on behalf of the Director of Fiscal Services to granting agencies. E
• Perform a variety of complex financial, budget, and accounting studies including the collection, compilation, analysis, and interpretation of data; make forecasts and recommendations for improvement in practices and procedures. E
• Review, interpret, apply, and explain a variety of technical documents, legislation, State budget information, rules, regulations, and procedures pertinent to budget and accounting functions to both staff and management. E
• Serve as a technical resource to district-wide personnel regarding a variety of accounting and budget activities; respond to inquiries and provide technical information concerning transactions, budgets, records, forms, and funding source requirements. E
• Create, organize, update, and maintain both paper and computer-based tracking systems such as databases and statistical spreadsheets to track, analyze, maintain, monitor, and report data. E
• Prepare schedules and other worksheets for the annual external audit of the district; serve as liaison to auditors to ensure an accurate and successful annual audit; conduct research and provide support as assigned. E
• Assist college management and program administrators in the development, preparation, maintenance, and evaluation of budgets for a variety of programs; identify budget problems; recommend solutions, and implement corrective adjustments. E
• Analyze and review accounting processes and procedures; formulate and recommend changes and revisions as needed to ensure effective and efficient operations. E
• Maintain confidentiality of budgetary and personnel information and records. E
• Provide guidance, training, and technical direction to management and staff. E
• Work collaboratively and professionally with faculty, staff, students, and stakeholders from diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, and ethnic communities. E Demonstrate cultural humility, sensitivity, and equity-mindedness in working with individuals from diverse communities; model inclusive behaviors; and achieve equity in assignment-related outcomes. E
• Perform other duties as assigned.

E = Essential Duties

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination equivalent to: Education: A bachelor's degree including or supplemented by at least 12 semester units of accounting coursework. Experience: Four years of technical or three years of professional-level accounting or budget experience.