Budget Management Analyst - Human Services Agency; Departmental Promotional

The Human Services Agency is seeking highly-motivated and experienced candidates for the Budget Management Analyst
. This position will allow you to further enhance your budget financial management skills, while working on a wide range of challenging financial projects and deliverables for the Human Services Agency.

Successful candidates will have experience in public administration, financial planning, analysis, reporting, budgeting, and accounting, be self-motivated, highly analytical strategic thinkers, and be detail oriented with the ability to solve business problems and deliver insights that enable timely and effective operational decision-making.

The Human Services Agency’s Budget Team in the Financial Services Division provides budget administration and oversight, prepares reports and analysis and ensure of compliance with local, state and federal requirements. Management Analysts perform a wide variety of highly complex analytical and administrative support activities and provide high-level support to Agency Directors and Managers.

The ideal candidates for this position are:

• Knowledge of public financial administration, budgeting, and project accounting. Able to manage the entire budget cycle from planning and developing to monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and forecasting.
• Knowledgeable of accounting, auditing, and financial reporting.
• Able to analyze complex problems accurately, develop practical recommendations, and take appropriate action to resolve them.
• Politically-astute strategic thinkers and planners.
• Able to analyze, moderate-to-complex budgetary, contract, accounts payable, and claiming issues and recommend actions to resolve issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise in assigned area.
• Highly skilled in the effective use of automated systems and applications, in particular Excel, to perform analyses and prepare reports.
• Able to communicate concisely and effectively, both verbally and in writing to convey financial information to a diverse audience in reports, workbooks, and instructions.
• Able to build strong effective relations and partnerships by using a collaborative style in reaching solutions to problems and accomplishing goals.
• Able to develop workbooks, track and report financial data and recommend courses of action.
• Quick learner who work well independently and as part of a team.
• Able to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Open minded, creative, and comfortable with change.
• Detail oriented while able to see a big picture.

There is currently one permanent vacancy on the Human Services Agency Budget Team. The Agency plans to fill the position at the more experienced Management Analyst level.

An applicant must be a current Human Services Agency employee with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service in a classified regular, probationary, or extra-help/limited term position prior to the recruitment closing date.

Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. Successful Management Analysts have come from a variety of professional backgrounds. Typical ways to obtain the required qualifications could include:

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in political science, public administration/policy, business, economics, or a related field, plus three years of analyst experience; or
• A Master's degree from an accredited college or university in political science, public administration/policy, business, economics, or a related field, plus one year of analyst experience; or
• Five years of analyst experience in a public agency or nonprofit setting.

• Principles and practices of local government administration and management.

• Development or management of project or program budgets. Leading and managing projects with multidisciplinary, multi-agency teams.

• Principles of financial administration, including public budgeting and reporting.

• Principles and practices of organizational analysis and management.

• Initiatives or efforts that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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