Overview

Position Title: Fire Fighter Trainee

Company: City Of Houston

Location: Houston, Texas, US

Job Description:

Per Chapter 143.023 of the Tex. Loc. Gov’t code, ‘A person may not take an entrance examination for a beginning position in the fire department unless the person is at least 18 years of age but not 36 years of age or older. A person may not be certified as eligible for a beginning position in the fire department if the person is 36 years of age or older’.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain monthly forecast models by collecting projection numbers from all the program areas within the department and displaying this in financial dashboards for meetings that track spending
  • Monitor personnel and other departmental budgets versus actual costs
  • Responsible for monthly Budget versus Actual for all sources of grants and funds
  • Manipulate large data sets for preparation of forecasting and trend analysis through interactive dashboards
  • Assist with SAP Data extract, transform and load for reporting on all funding sources
  • Assist with reporting requirements from Program Areas and prepare data for business use by creating the layout and necessary analytics
  • Query and execute formulas to prepare data in a suitable format for visualization in Power BI
  • Assist with data integrations and interoperability between disparate data warehouses and assemble large/complex sets for internal consumption from disconnected data sets and third-party systems.
  • Perform deep dive analysis to answer critical business questions. This could entail anything from critical thinking skills to expert analysis in excel and Power BI
  • Maintain mapping to support reporting of all grants/funds
  • Perform other duties as required

Requirements:

    • Must have twenty-four (24) transferable college credit hours with a grade of ‘C’ or better (only two (2) credit hours of Physical Education will be accepted) OR
    • 2.    Two (2) years of full-time active military service with an honorable discharge as stipulated on a DD214 Member 4
    • 3.    Applicant must meet the above requirements by the Civil Service Exam date.