Chief Financial Officer

📢 #CalEnergy seeks our next Chief Financial Officer to join our Administrative & Financial Management Services Division!

This critical leadership position develops, directs, and empowers branch staff to ensure they are customer-focused innovators and problem solvers delivering a high level of customer service and technical expertise in the daily conduct of Financial Management Branch programs. This role provides vision, program management, and technical direction over accounting and financial reporting, budgets and resource allocation, and contracts, grants, and loans programs within the Energy Commission.

We are looking for someone with a strategic mindset and strong leadership ability who can problem solve while upholding CEC’s commitment to customer service and cultivating a positive work environment. If you are interested in a challenging and exciting career in clean energy and are passionate about renewable, efficient, and reliable energy that addresses climate change, join our diverse team of global energy leaders!

⚡Apply to be our next Chief Financial Officer before 1/14/2025: https://bit.ly/4iZhUzv

✅Salary Range: $9,293.00 - $10,550.00 per month, full benefits, PTO, and state pension plan!

✅Hybrid telework option available in California (California based position).

✅Work for a diverse state agency with the mission of creating a CLEAN energy future for all!

 Desirable Qualifications:

• The knowledge of principles, practices, and trends of public and business administration including management and supportive staff services functions such as budgeting, accounting, management analysis, planning, program evaluation, and related areas.

• Excellent leadership qualities, including the ability to supervise, coach, develop, motivate, recognize, and discipline staff.

• A familiarity with the principles and practices of employee supervision, development, and training.

• The ability to reason logically and creatively, using a variety of analytical techniques to resolve complex governmental and managerial problems, develop and evaluate alternatives, and analyze data to present ideas and information effectively both orally and in writing.

Required Application Package Documents

The following items are required to be submitted with your application. Applicants who do not submit the required items timely may not be considered for this job:

• Current version of the State Examination/Employment Application STD Form 678 (when not applying electronically), or the Electronic State Employment Application through your Applicant Account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov. All Experience and Education relating to the Minimum Qualifications listed on the Classification Specification should be included to demonstrate how you meet the Minimum Qualifications for the position.

• Resume is optional. It may be included, but is not required.

• Degree and/or School Transcripts

• Statement of Qualifications - Include an SOQ that answers the prompts below. Your SOQ should be no longer than two pages, single-spaced, with no smaller than 12-point font. Applications received without an SOQ will not be considered. Visit How to Write a Statement of Qualifications for instructions.
  
  1. Describe your financial management experience and your approach to managing, leading, and delivering accounting, budgeting, or contracting services.
  
  2. Describe your experience addressing a structural deficit or other budget challenge. Give examples of the strategies you have employed to reduce or eliminate the deficit or budget challenge.
  
  3. Describe your ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with executive staff, a wide variety of departmental staff, control agencies, and other external partners. Provide examples.
  
  4. Describe your experience managing the budget cycle from concept to enactment. Provide examples.

📬Connect with our CEC Recruitment and Outreach team with questions about this career opportunity or eligibility requirements: Careers@Energy.ca.gov