Budget and Program Analyst

Introduction

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The Budget and Program Analyst will support the Delaware Health Care Commission and the Diamond State Hospital Cost Review Board as it measures hospital cost growth against Delaware's health care spending benchmark and oversees the state's standardized hospital financial assistance requirement. In this role, the Budget and Program Analyst will review hospital financial statements to determine whether Delaware's hospitals are meeting state health care spending benchmarks.

The Budget and Program Analyst will build financial models, prepare the reports that inform Board decisions, draft rules and regulations, and develop data-driven policy recommendations on hospital cost oversight and compliance with statewide requirements for hospital financial assistance.

Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class. Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, incumbents can complete job duties of similar kind not specifically listed here.

• Provides budget analysis and technical support. Coordinates the strategic planning process for assigned divisions. Provides in-depth review and analysis of critical and/or complex budget requests. Develops strategies to enhance funding, and provides advice to executive management regarding allocation of resources to implement priorities.
• Reviews and analyzes requests for federal funds and makes recommendations related to federal funding. Develops, reviews, and analyzes preliminary budget policies and procedures and trains internal operating division management and fiscal officers in their interpretation and implementation.
• Monitors and/or tracks fiscal/budget related activities, records, and documents including funding requests, expenditures, position complements control, grants, contracts, leases, Clearinghouse and other required approval levels.
• Analyzes, monitors, and evaluates program and project initiatives and performance for assigned divisions. Provides recommendations for project and resource coordination and remedial action, as appropriate.
• Plans, conducts or coordinates diverse, complex or inter-division studies and program analyses to identify problems and short and long-range operating, capital and/or service needs, define and clarify common objectives, and assess and explore alternate approaches. Conducts special research, investigation, and analysis on issues or events as requested.
• Serves as Team Leader when necessary to accomplish work assignment.
• Gathers, maintains, and evaluates statistical, financial and infrastructure data to forecast services, technology and manpower needs, and operating/capital costs.
• Reviews and analyzes new or proposed legislation to determine fiscal and organizational impact. Recommends, develops, and drafts new or revised legislation.
• Prepares special and routine reports. Respond to legislative and consumer inquires.

• Possession of a Bachelors degree or higher in Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Business Management, Computer Information Systems or related field.
• Three years experience in planning, designing, developing, implementing and evaluating fiscal management studies.
• Three years experience in budget development which includes analyzing financial data and making long and short range plans and projections.
• Six months experience in strategic planning such as planning and mapping a path between the present and future usually for three to five years by determining key objectives, how to accomplish the key objectives, what strategies should be used, what activities would contribute to accomplishing the key objectives and developing performance measures to gauge…