Budget and Financial Analyst

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Posting :
Posting Date: 9/3/2026
Closing Date:
When Filled
Department:
Budget
Vacancies: 1
Grade: N/A
Salary: $75,000 to $85,000 annually, commensurate with qualifications and experience

Hours:

35 hours per week

Shift: Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with one regularly scheduled
late day from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Position Type:
Full-time, non-union (exempt/salary)

Home to more than 53,000 residents, Everett is a compact, growing city immediately north of Boston with strong neighborhood identity, significant cultural and linguistic diversity, and an increasingly dynamic regional profile. The City is strengthening its municipal organization around fiscal discipline, accountability, responsive service, and long-term planning. Everett is seeking leaders who can work across departments and communities, build durable partnerships, and translate ambitious goals into measurable improvements for residents.

Under the direction of the Budget Director, the Budget & Financial Analyst performs professional analytical and administrative work in support of the City’s operating and capital budgets, financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management.

The Budget & Financial Analyst turns financial, operating, and organizational information into clear and practical analysis for the City management. The position works across budgets, payroll, staffing, capital planning, and departmental operations to identify trends, evaluate budgetary issues and support informed decision making. Assignments may involve incomplete and inconsistent information, requiring the Budget & Financial Analyst to evaluate available data, make reasonable assumptions, identify limitations, and communicate findings clearly.

This is a growth position for a strong analyst and problem-solver.

Essential duties of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assist with the preparation, administration and monitoring of City’s operating and capital budgets.
• Analyze budgets, actual expenditures, revenues, payroll, overcome, staffing and other financial or operating information; prepare budget-to-actual and variance analyses; investigate unusual activity and significant departures from plan.
• Maintain revenue forecasting models and prepare projections to support budget development and long-range financial planning.
• Maintain the City’s budget database, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of budget information, and assist in the preparation, production, and distribution of the annual operating and capital budget book.
• Collect, clean, reconcile and analyze information from financial systems, payroll records, departmental files, and other sources; identify significant data issues and document assumptions and limitations as appropriate.
• Conduct research and benchmarking with municipal departments and peer communities to evaluate user fees, charges, and cost recovery practices, prepare analysis to update the City’s fee schedules and related policies.
• Create clear, repeatable models and reports that other staff can understand, update and use.
• Monitor and report on departmental and organizational Key Performance Indicators
• (KPI) in support of performance-based budgeting.
• Collaborate with Finance team and other City departments on special projects as assigned and make recommendations for improvement.
• Support the City’s financial…