SSA Budget Lead AGENCY BUDGET Specialist LEAD

When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults.

We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind.

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Maryland Department of Human Services
Office of Budget and Finance
25 S. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

The major function of this position is to provide staff support and assistance as a lead Budget Analyst for a budget team assigned to prepare, monitor and enforce a specified DHS administration's central and local budget. The Lead Budget Analyst is responsible for the development, negotiation and execution of the Social Services Administration/Child Welfare budgets as well as the assignment and review of work of lower-level analyst and support staff.

The analyst ensures that funds for the provision of services are obtained and managed in a manner consistent with all State and Federal guidelines and overall Department goals.

• Systematically evaluates financial systems, data structures, and agency formatting needs to establish robust monitoring methodologies across departmental programs.
• Ongoing analysis of fiscal data, the position assesses operational impacts, program success, and compliance with program regulations and grant proposals.
• Maintain fiscal integrity and oversight, agency budgets, expenditure projections, and routine financial reports for Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management, the CFO, and executive staff.
• Prepares comprehensive budget instruction guidelines and distributes them to both central administrations and local departments to ensure standardized request submissions across the agency.
• Establish a sound basis for future funding, the position gathers and evaluates prior-year expenditures to identify spending trends while projecting upcoming financial needs based on programmatic plans and designs.
• Reviews administration submissions, recommends appropriate funding levels, additions, deletions, or adjustments, and actively justifies and defends all budget recommendations to Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management.
• Provides comprehensive administrative support, manages daily office workloads, prepares official correspondence, and oversees assigned program projects.
• Ensure effective governance, the position actively participates in internal meetings, committees, and specialized work groups as directed by leadership.

Applicants must meet all minimum (and selective) qualifications to be considered, and to appear on the list of people eligible for hire. Please read all requirements before applying.

Eight years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution.

• Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and four years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution for the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute graduate education from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, political science or public administration at a rate of 30 credit hours for five years of required experience.
• Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Budget Officer classifications or Financial Management specialty codes in the Budgeting field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

• One year of experience with the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
• One year of experience with the Budget Analysis and Reporting System (BARS).
• One year of experience preparing and/or overseeing a budget in a government agency.

If you are in State service and a promotional candidate, your salary will be determined in accordance with State of Maryland guidelines.

The examination will consist of a rating of your education, training, and experience as presented on your application and as they relate to the requirements of the position. You may be asked to complete a…