Responsibilities may include directing and coordinating the fiscal management, purchasing, budgeting, personnel, administrative analysis, office management and central services functions of the department. As a member of the top management team, the employee, in most cases, actively participates in the development of department-wide financial policy by offering creative and innovative input to the development of fiscal policy. The employee must translate broad departmental goals into budgetary policy, and, without technical supervision, implement necessary operating plans and procedures. This employee may assume final responsibility for the fiscal integrity of the department, developing accounting procedures as needed and assigning internal auditing projects according to priorities established by this employee.
Work is performed under the administrative direction of the department head.
The employee has broad latitude in supervising the administrative services activities. The employee must set the objectives of his section in terms of departmental goals and objectives, determine the manpower resources necessary to accomplish these objectives, monitor progress toward achievement, and evaluate results. In most cases, a large number of subordinates are under this employee's direction and the amount of funds for which the incumbent is accountable is extremely large. Factors differentiating this class from the Administrative Management Officer class are a larger fiscal accountability, greater involvement in department-wide policymaking and complete responsibility for a wide variety of administrative and management activities where the consequence of error is great. Directs the collection, examination, analysis, and compilation of a wide range of management reports and studies.