Budget Analyst or Budget Analyst Senior

Budget Analyst or Budget Analyst Senior

Requisition : req
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Employment Type: Unclassified Regular Full-Time (URF)

Division: Budget & Financial Analysis

Compensation: Dependent on qualifications

Job Closing: 8/4/2026, 11:59pm

Location: TRS Headquarters Building 1
4655 Mueller Boulevard
Austin, Texas, 78723
United States

Service, Respect, and Connection are core to the individual and collective TRS experience. We know that great service rests on a foundation of relationships that connect us all to an empowering and rewarding career. At TRS, we’re inspired by our community who bring authenticity and commitment to our mission to improve the retirement security of public education employees and retirees throughout Texas.
As a group of achievers, we tap collaboration and innovation to raise the bar in performance, administering and counseling pensions and healthcare benefits to ensure certainty for the future of our members. We invite you to join us, where both personal and career growth are respected and where you can make a difference in our members’ lives every day.

• Budget Analyst: $81,168 - $101,460
• Senior Budget Analyst: $89,286 - $111,608

Budgetary & Fiscal Activities

• Assists in the planning, coordinating, and preparation of the agency’s administrative operating budget, Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR), and other financial and legislative reports.
• Contributes to the development of the Annual Administrative Operating Budget Report for the GFOA Distinguished Budget Presentation Award program. (Senior plans and coordinates)
• Assists with coordinating and preparing the agency’s strategic plan and performance measures.
• Maintains the budgetary system and financial reporting tools.
• Reviews and approves all procurement, fiscal and personnel transactions for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Prepares monthly and annual reconciliations on the agency budgetary and expenditure system, Open Gov, Procurement and Vendor System (PAVES), the Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA) Uniform Statewide Accounting System (USAS), the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) Automated Budget and Evaluation System of Texas (ABEST) application, and the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS). (Senior oversees)
• Provides budget, expenditure, and position oversight, including developing monitoring tools and financial analysis reports.
• Informs management of budget activities including deviations, concerns, and events likely to affect operations; explains causes; and measures and reports effects on agency’s resources.
• Conducts quarterly budget meetings to review organizational spending to ensure that it is within the budget.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual budgetary reports, including periodic and ad-hoc management reports regarding budgetary and fiscal activities for internal use and Board of Trustee reporting.
• Provides guidance and training to agency staff on budgetary and expenditure system processes.
• Coordinates the reporting of quarterly and annual performance measures. (Senior oversees)
• Coordinates the reporting of USAS quarterly expenditure reconciliations in ABEST. (Senior oversees)
• Assist in the annual clean-up and close-out of accounts at Fiscal Year-end. (Senior coordinates)
• Prepares a variety of technical financial reports to provide management with expenditure data, trends, and recommendations.
• Participates on finance related agency committees and special projects as needed.
• Serves in back up capacity to the Senior Budget Analyst and the Director of Budget and Financial Analysis.
• Serves in back up capacity to the Director of Budget and Financial Analysis and the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (Senior)
• Aides management and team members as needed.

Analysis & Reporting

• Analyzes and may manage the distribution of budget and resource allocations across agency business operations and departments to ensure compliance with budgetary laws, regulations, and policies.
• Analyzes key drivers of budget variances and assist in developing, updating, and maintaining models and financial systems to budget, forecast, analyze, and report…