Budget and Policy Analyst, Senior

This opportunity is not to exceed a max compensation amount of $95,000/annually.

The Department of Budget & Strategic Planning is seeking a dynamic, team-oriented, enthusiastic, and hardworking candidate to join its team! Incumbents must be self-starters, exceptional communicators and listeners, problem solvers, critical thinkers, and most importantly, team players. Incumbents will join a dynamic team of individuals, to help achieve the Department’s mission, which is:
To provide corporate, performance informed oversight for the development, analysis, and execution of the City’s budgeting and strategic performance management processes as well as grant support to balance the needs and resources of the community.

Specifically, incumbents will play a vital team role in the development of the City’s nearly multi-billion dollar budget. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work with multiple municipal departments and employees, learning about key government operations, assisting departments in solving budgetary and financial challenges that may arise, and helping chart a course for the overall improvement in city department operations - making them more efficient, accountable, effective, and aware of local government activity.

Work may include the following:

• Analyzing complex issues to facilitate and execute decision-making
• Serving on inter- and intra-departmental committees and task forces
• Reviewing and assessing departmental performance measures
• Overseeing budgetary transactions
• Performing complex analysis
• Serving as a liaison and official representative to senior staff, external agencies, and the public
• Conducting trainings
• Researching, developing, writing, and editing complex reports and plans
• Preparing financial forecasts, reports, and presentations related to the city’s budgets
• Coordinating or leading tasks to prepare the department for budget proposal or adoption
• Understanding and dissecting complex financial transactions
• Providing policy recommendations based on research and findings
• Working with various software and digital platforms.

The Department of Budget & Strategic Planning is an employer of choice. We value our employees and seek to attract and retain the best. We are also committed to your individual and professional growth! The selected candidate will have the opportunity to attend applicable training and educational workshops, obtain relevant certifications, and join appropriate professional organizations to further enhance and develop professional skill sets and capabilities.

The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work with multiple, municipal departments/agencies and employees as well as a unified, core group of individuals within the Budget & Strategic Planning Department - focused on providing excellent, prompt, and accurate services to both internal and external customers.

• Perform detailed expenditure and revenue analysis of multiple city departments’ operating, special, enterprise, capital, and/or internal service fund budgets.
• Perform expenditure and revenue projections of multiple city departments’ operating budgets.
• Perform personnel projections and analyze related economic factors.
• Engage and communicate with multiple staff members on their departmental budgets and other fiscal/budgetary matters.
• Review budget proposals and funding requests for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with laws and other regulations.
• Assist in program evaluation and policy analysis, particularly as it pertains to city/local government finance or budget policy related matters.
• Work with high volumes of data in excel.
• Analyze and interpret financial/budget data and present solutions/results of analysis clearly, promptly, and in an articulate manner.
• Assist in estimating future…