Senior Finance and Budget Analyst

Senior Finance and Budget Analyst

Under the guidance of the Director of Finance, the Senior Finance and Budget Analyst is responsible for the fiscal management of government contracts, the budget processes, and supports the protection of food bank assets through responsible financial planning and oversight, including preparing financial reports, analysis, and budgets.

Job

This role supports program evaluation and budget management by analyzing financial and non-financial information and communicating results, preparing supporting documentation & exhibits and recommendations to staff and senior management.

• Manage documentation of all government contract files (e.g., MOUs, correspondence, modifications, and data deliverables) and ensure expenditures adhere to grant compliance and interpretation of OMB Circulars, local, state, and federal regulations, and ACCFB policies.
• Lead organization-wide fiscal budget formulation processes, both capital and operating budgets with HAF/CFO leading communications, decisions, and process management.
  • Develop and communicate budget calendar and prepare budget worksheets for departments.
  • Work with department heads to support their budget formulation, including budget training, researching activity, recommending assumptions based on analysis and strategic plan. Analyze budget requests and explain significant variances.
  • Collaborate with Finance leadership to develop, support, and implement strategic plan aligned organizational reporting structure and consolidations.
  • Consolidate department requests into organization-level budget reports and analysis.
  • Collaborate with Finance and P&C leadership to prepare and monitor staffing budget focusing on ensuring budgeted positions and vacancies are managed appropriately.
  • Support Finance and Administration division leaders with their budgets and provide timely Budget-to-Actual reports with transactional detail to support accurate budget development.
  • Update budgets during fiscal year as needed.
  • Work with CFO to ensure that the 5-year model is supported and updated, focusing on assessing key drivers for changes in the model.
  • Work collaboratively with executive leadership to develop and maintain Operating and Finance dashboard.
• Analyze contributed revenue, agency revenue budget, and actuals with departments.
• Be a trusted resource and support internal staff with data and financial analysis as needed across the organization.
• Analyze food distribution plans and actuals including food volume, food mix strategy, total costs and cost per pound with operations and programs department.
• Leverage Jet reports infrastructure to collaborate with Operations, Programs and Development teams to ensure that reports are maintained and analyzed at a regular cadence.
• Support program evaluation through analyzing program metrics such as client counts and demographics, meals served and impacts on health against finance and other data.
• Prepare & reconcile monthly grants receivable schedule to ensure and verify general ledger detail accurately reflects program activity for government contract billing.
• Prepare monthly budget versus actual reports and analysis for income statement at team, department, division and organization levels. Prepare and analyze balance sheet and cash flow reports.
• Prepare the Schedule of Federal Expenditures for the A-133 audit, financial statements and footnotes and support the Food Bank’s annual fiscal audit and other federal agency reviews.
• Conduct other analysis as needed, may include financial and non-financial data such as historical projections, cost-benefit, net present value, lease vs. buy and other financial calculations. Contract and grant analysis.
• Partner with Accounting Manager and Payroll Administrator on monthly and quarterly financial closes and create updated fiscal year forecasts based on actuals results.
• Update all financial reports and exhibits to support financial reports provided to the Board Oversight Committee.
• Present analysis and reports to Leadership Team members as needed.
• Support accounting function as needed during interim and final audit cycles.
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