Senior Advisor, Budgeting & Resource Planning

Summary: The Senior Advisor serves as ASTHO’s subject matter expert in budgeting, financial planning, forecasting, project financial management, and resource allocation. The position provides strategic and technical guidance to program and operational teams, strengthens financial planning practices, and promotes consistent, accurate, and data-informed decision-making across the organization. The Senior Advisor leads the development and continuous improvement of budgeting methodologies, systems, tools, and standards;

supports the implementation and optimization of the organization’s ERP system; and ensures that proposal budgets and funded activities align with organizational priorities, funder requirements, and applicable policies.

Location: Remote

Anticipated salary : $124,300 up to $153,100

Principal Functions:

• Strengthens budgeting, forecasting, and project financial-management practices across U.S. government, foundation, philanthropic, private-sector, and other funding sources
• Provides strategic and technical guidance to program and operational teams on budget development, financial planning, forecasting, cost management, and resource allocation
• Develops and oversees methodologies for personnel budgeting, labor distribution, and effort planning to ensure staffing costs are appropriately allocated across grants, contracts, and organizational initiatives
• Leads the modernization and continuous improvement of budgeting and forecasting processes by developing standardized methodologies, templates, workflows, controls, and guidance
• Reduces reliance on manual processes by identifying opportunities for automation, system integration, and improved use of financial and operational data
• Supports the development and implementation of the organization’s ERP system, including business requirements, automated workflows, reporting needs, dashboards, and data visualization, ensuring financial data supports timely decision-making
• Develops and monitors key performance indicators for the budgeting and forecasting function, using data to improve accuracy, cycle times, forecast reliability, and customer service
• Reviews proposal budgets, budget narratives, funding assumptions, indirect cost applications, fringe rates, and other financial components of funding submissions
• Supports the development and review of budgets for requests for proposals, grant applications, contracts, and other funding opportunities
• Assesses project financial performance and provide recommendations to improve budget accuracy, cost management, and bottom-line results
• Identifies financial risks, funding gaps, overages, and underutilized resources, and provide scenario-based recommendations to program and organizational leadership
• Develops and standardizes budgeting templates, financial planning tools, guidance documents, and operating procedures
• Strengthens coordination among Program Operations, Grants, Finance, and programmatic teams throughout the proposal development and project implementation lifecycle
• Provides guidance to program teams to ensure that project activities and expenditures are consistent with approved budgets, funder expectations, and organizational policies
• Partners with cross-functional teams to improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of financial and operational data
• Develops reports and analyses that support leadership decision-making, resource allocation, and long-term financial planning
• Drive process improvements that enhance operational efficiency, financial accountability, and compliance with funder and audit requirements
• Supports other strategic initiatives that contribute to the organization’s long-term financial and operational health.

Qualifications:

• Master’s…