Budget Manager, Temporary

About Seattle Center — The Cultural Heart of the Pacific Northwest

Seattle Center is a 74-acre civic, arts, and cultural gathering place in the heart of Seattle and home to more than 30 partner organizations, including Climate Pledge Arena, KEXP, Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP), Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Opera, Pacific Science Center, SIFF, and many others. Anchored by world-class attractions, historic venues, public art, and a dynamic calendar of free and affordable events centered around the iconic International Fountain, Seattle Center brings together arts, culture, sports, and community year‑round.

As a department of the City of Seattle and anchor of the Uptown Arts and Cultural District, Seattle Center serves residents from across the Puget Sound region alongside visitors from around the world.

In partnership with Friends of Waterfront Park, Seattle Center provides operations, maintenance, and public safety services for Waterfront Park, while Friends leads park experience, programming, and stewardship along Seattle’s downtown waterfront.

Seattle Center is seeking qualified candidates for a 6-month temporary Budget Manager assignment, open to both external candidates and internal candidates (serving in an out of class capacity).

This role provides fiscal oversight of the department’s Operating and Capital Improvement budgets and ensures fiscal strategies, controls and policies are implemented consistently. The Budget Manager also ensures revenue sources are correctly tracked, and the biennial budget is accurately prepared, monitored, and balanced. The Budget unit provides financial analysis, budgeting, reporting, and revenue and expense forecasting to support Seattle Center operations.

We are looking for a leader with fiscal management and budgeting experience to support the department. Seattle Center has a complex business model with a wide variety of revenue streams, blending governmental, entrepreneurial, and not-for-profit activities with a focus on entertainment. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn new skills and contribute to overall strategic budget planning for Seattle Center.

This position reports to the Director of Finance and Administration.

To be successful in this role, you have demonstrated abilities in:

• Preparing and monitoring a large and complex operating and capital improvement budget that informs and ensures fiscal accountability
• Performing complex fiscal and policy analysis
• Developing recommendations and strategies related to fiscal and budgeting policies that directly impact the Seattle Center’s ability to effectively fund and support various programs
• Leading and performing year-end fiscal close activities (e.g., reconcile accounts, reviews final revenue and expenditure transactions, process adjustments, ensuring compliance with city policies, and preparing year-end reports).
• Tracking and forecasting department revenue and expenditures, bringing anomalies to the attention of program managers and division directors
• Researching and reporting on use of grant funds and ensuring compliance with grant requirements
• Developing and implementing a budget development work plan, including revenue, expense, and staffing budget adjustments
• Operating budgeting software and expertise with data querying tools
• Working closely with accounting data to develop and interpret coding structures and develop reports
• Leading, coaching and developing employees to improve efficiencies and ensure quality performance

You will enjoy this role if:

• You are looking to expand your career by gaining hands‑on experience managing a robust and interesting department budget
• You are interested in assessing and resolving complex business, technical and operational…