Lead Budget Analyst

Lead Budget Analyst

Are you a Commonwealth employee officer with experience serving as a lead on complex budgets or financial projects?

Do you have considerable knowledge of fiscal standards, policies, and procedures for accounting, reporting, and budgeting?

Apply to be our Lead Budget Analyst!

Title:

Lead Budget Analyst - 00151

State Role

Title:

Financial Services Specialist III

Hiring Range: $117,000 - $127,000

Pay Band: 6

Agency:
Department of General Services (DGS)

Location:

Richmond, VA

This opportunity is ONLY open to CURRENT STATE EMPLOYEES. Applications that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.

The DGS Office of Budget is seeking an experienced budget professional to serve as the Lead Budget Analyst. This position is responsible for maintaining high-level budgetary controls for assigned business units, providing training and assistance to other Budget Analysts, and serves in other capacities during the absence of the Chief Budget Officer (CBO). This position also leads the Internal Service Fund Department of Planning and Budget (DPB) report submission, as well as the monthly expenditure and revenue projection process.

Job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Manage the full budget process for assigned DGS funds including but not limited to planning for routine and special expenditures, set up, appropriation monitoring, and execution of Budget Execution (BEX transactions).
• Review and approve operating BEXs.
• Lead the monthly expenditure and revenue forecasting projection process, including creating annual and monthly spreadsheets for data input, scheduling projection review meetings with the Budget Analysts and the CBO, and reviewing and following up on projection data with Budget Analysts for any questions on the data.
• Lead the Internal Service Fund submission process, including overseeing the set up and completion of each ISF report by the Budget Analysts and for any ISF reports/divisions directly assigned to you, reviewing ISF reports for irregularities and making necessary corrections prior to submission to the CBO, and developing models that demonstrate the effect that changes in cost drivers will have on future rates.
• Draft Decision Packages and Fiscal Impact Statements.
• Ensure division personnel are trained and provided with all necessary financial information to meet established deadlines.
• Serve as backup for all Budget Analyst duties for non-assigned divisions.

This position is located in Richmond, Virginia and eligible for a hybrid telework schedule (telework up to 2 days/week) after 6 months of satisfactory performance and the completion of a Telework Agreement.

We've got great benefits!

DGS offers excellent health benefits at affordable pricing, pre-tax spending accounts, paid life insurance, paid Short- and Long-Term Disability benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and other leave benefits, wellness programs, and a state retirement plan with options for tax-deferred retirement savings including employer matching. Additionally, supplemental bus passes, ride share, or parking are available and DGS is a qualifying employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience providing leadership, guidance, and training to staff, including serving as a lead worker and/or coordinating the work of others on complex budgets or financial projects.
• Considerable experience with financial management and budget management, including budgets with general and non-general funds.
• Experience analyzing complex financial data, transactions, and reports and experience forecasting revenue and expenditures.
• Considerable knowledge of fiscal standards, policies, and procedures for accounting, reporting, and budgeting.
• Knowledge of public sector budgeting practices.
• Demonstrated ability to independently establish, maintain, evaluate and improve financial processes, systems and internal controls.
• Strong ability to effectively reason in the abstract, conduct complete and thorough analyses, determine the impact of actions or plans, and make effective recommendations to resolve complex issues and support agency plans and decisions.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to analyze historical trends, data, legislation, and policy.
• Demonstrated effective written communication skills, to include the ability to write reports, budget requests, fiscal impact statements, or analytical findings in narrative form.
• Effective oral communication skills, to include creating and giving presentations to executive level…