Budget Analyst

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Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

Strategy, Management & Budget supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

Strategy, Management & Budget is the university's home for budget planning, management, analysis, and financial resource stewardship. The department operates under the Vice President for Business & Financial Affairs and works closely with various campus units to deliver budgetary and financial planning services. The team is dedicated to enhancing financial accountability and transparency throughout the university from building the university operating budget to communicating the university’s financial positions such as the final expenditures and outcomes.

Under the direction of the Director for Budget and Financial Planning, the Budget Analyst is responsible for providing analyses and reports related to planning, developing, implementing, and administrating Western’s operating budget. This position may include supporting development of the state biennial and supplemental budget requests; leading the preparation of fiscal notes during legislative session; managing the University’s institutional budget; and providing other policy, fiscal and operational analysis in support of the university operating budget.

45% - Legislative Session & Budgetary Support

• Assist with biennial and supplemental budget development, coordinate decision packages, enter and verify budgetary data in the state Office of Financial Management (OFM) systems.
• Prepare and submit the biennial and annual allotment expenditure plans for all allotted operating funds; prepare monthly journal vouchers to report expenditure actuals to the state; and monitor actuals on a monthly basis to ensure internal allocations and allotments remain reconciled.
• Analyze proposed & adopted state…