Financial Program Manager

Job Overview

Ohio EPA wants you to join our Division of Environmental Response and Revitalization (DERR) as a financial program manager at its Central Office in Columbus, Ohio. Join a team that’s protecting Ohio’s environment every day.

• Supervise, authorize and approve the division’s accounts payable/receivable and purchasing activity.
• Oversee the fiscal administration of DERR’s grant programs.
• Coordinate and track DERR’s Level of Effort (LOE) mobilizations.
• Coordinate fiscal management with associated agency and state offices.
• Design and build custom financial reports in various electronic systems.

You’ll handle the fiscal side of DERR’s grant programs—from applications and amendments to maintaining grant files and completing close‑outs—and guide the tracking of the division’s LOE mobilizations to ensure compliance with state procurement rules. You’ll also coordinate fiscal management of DERR’s cost recovery and fee collections, working closely with program staff and associated agency and state offices. If you like working under the ‘hood’, you’ll have the opportunity to design and produce custom financial reports in various financial and data analysis systems to produce clear, actionable reports for internal and external stakeholders.

• Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field preferred.
• 54 months experience or training in financial administration, or 30 months experience/training with undergraduate core program; or 18 months experience/training with graduate core program; or equivalent of minimum class qualifications.
• Successful completion of the Fiscal Academy may be substituted for 4 months of required accounting/fiscal experience.

Accounting and Finance, Budgeting, Bookkeeping, Inventory Control, Grants Administration, Equipment Operations, Leading Others, Written Communication, Reasoning, Verbal Communication, Customer Focus.

Environmental Protection Agency

Lazarus Government Center, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio.

$39.22 - $55.99 per hour.

Full-time.

Exempt from Union.

Erika Carleski

March 3, 2026.