Budget & Finance Manager

As the Budget & Finance Manager for our Digital, Strategy, and Technology department, you’ll lead budget planning and financial operations, guide a small team, and give senior leaders the insight they need to make informed investments. You’ll evaluate market costs, contracts, and hardware and software life cycles while improving reporting, processes, and internal controls. We’re looking for an experienced IT finance leader who enjoys digging into numbers and transactions, takes initiative to solve complex problems, and can turn detailed financial data into clear, practical recommendations.

Hiring Range: $90,000.00 - $ Annually
This position has an anticipated work schedule of Monday - Friday, 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM with flexibility required.

Please be advised this position may close without advance notice, should we receive a sufficient number of qualified applications.

• Plans, organizes, manages, and evaluates assigned departmental financial programs, operations, and services; establishes priorities and ensures activities support departmental goals and operational needs.
• Manages one or more financial functions, which may include budgeting, accounting, accounts payable and receivable, contracts, procurement, grants, financial reporting, auditing, compliance, and related fiscal operations.
• Performs and oversees complex financial and operational analyses, studies, and research. Evaluates financial information, trends, funding, costs, and operational issues; develops recommendations regarding financial strategies, resource allocation, and short- and long-term planning, to support strategic direction and decision making
• Proactively manages department or office costs by monitoring spending, contracts, and purchase orders to identify cost savings and prevent budget overruns before they occur. Analyzes usage trends, vendor agreements, and marketplace data to recommend consolidation, renegotiation, or elimination of unnecessary expenses. Communicates cost risks and recommendations to leadership in time to support informed decisions.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates financial policies, procedures, processes and internal controls. Identifies financial and operational risks and ensures assigned activities comply with applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, funding requirements, County policies and procedures, contractual requirements and established financial practices.
• Oversees the preparation, analysis and maintenance of financial reports, records, reconciliations, projections, forecasts and cost analyses. Ensures financial information is accurate, complete, timely and supports departmental planning and decision-making.
• Manages departmental budget activities as assigned, including budget development, monitoring, forecasting, expenditure and revenue analysis, budget modifications, and financial reporting; advises department leadership regarding budget status, trends, risks and resource needs.
• Manages accounting and financial transaction activities as assigned, including accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, revenue and expenditure monitoring and resolution of complex financial transactions or discrepancies.
• Manages contract and procurement activities as assigned, including contract development and administration, solicitations, negotiations, amendments, renewals, monitoring, vendor or provider relationships, procurement processes and resolution of significant contractual, billing, performance or compliance issues.
• Manages grant and other funding activities as assigned, including financial monitoring, reporting, reimbursement, reconciliation and compliance with applicable funding requirements.
• Monitors the financial aspects of assigned programs, projects and portfolios, including budgets, expenditures, funding sources and applicable requirements; coordinates with appropriate staff to identify and resolve financial or compliance issues.
• Coordinates and supports financial, programmatic and compliance audits and reviews; analyzes financial records and supporting documentation, resolves discrepancies, responds to findings and implements corrective actions as appropriate.
• May coordinate activities related to legal matters within assigned areas of responsibility, including Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) requests; coordinates with the County Attorney's Office and researches and investigates matters as assigned.
• Provides senior and executive leadership with timely, accurate financial analysis and…