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
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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:
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- 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.