Budget Director

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference and you have a passion for making a difference in the lives of South Carolina's youth, consider joining the dedicated people of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ).

It is the mission of the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to impact and transform young lives, strengthen families, and support safer communities through targeted prevention and rehabilitation.

The Budget Director serves as the Agency's lead for budget development, budget execution, forecasting, and financial analysis, The position leads the development and management of the Agency's annual operating and personnel budgets and provides executive leadership with timely, accurate, and forward-looking financial information necessary to make informed operational and strategic decisions. The Budget Director also monitors appropriations, expenditures, revenues, personnel costs, and other financial activity throughout the fiscal year;

develops financial forecasts and funding strategies; and identifies emerging budget risks and opportunities. The position serves as a primary budget liaison with agency executive leadership, program and department management, and other stakeholders. The Budget Director is also responsible for maintaining strong budget controls, accurate financial information, effective budget processes, and appropriate SCEIS budget structures and master data.

• Serves as the Agency's lead for budget planning, execution and management.
• Establishes and coordinates agency-wide budget calendars, procedures, reporting requirements, assumptions, and internal deadlines.
• Provides guidance to executive leadership, division deputy directors, and others regarding budget development, expenditure management, personnel budgeting, funding availability, and fiscal requirements.
• Identifies significant financial risks, funding pressures, and resource issues and develops recommendations for executive leadership.
• Leads development of the Agency's annual budget request and coordinates recurring, no-recurring, personnel, operating, capital, technology, and other funding requests.
• Works with executive leadership and agency divisions to review funding requests for reasonableness, fiscal impact, available funding, and alignment with agency priorities.
• Coordinates preparation of the Agency's budget request to the Executive Budget Office and prepares supporting schedules, narratives, financial analyses, and other required documentation.
• Supports executive leadership during budget hearings, legislative review, and the appropriations process.
• Monitors legislative action affecting the agency and communicates funding decisions, provisos, and other budget impacts to appropriate stakeholders.
• Manages and monitors the Agency's operating and personnel budgets throughout the fiscal year.
• Analyzes expenditures, commitments, revenues, payroll, vacancies, position funding, appropriations, and available balances.
• Develops monthly, year-end, and multi-year financial forecasts and identifies significan variances, spending trends, funding pressures, and emerging financial risks.
• Works with agency departments to understand budget variances and develops recommended corrective actions or funding strategies when projected expenditures or revenues differ materially from approved plans.
• Develops recurring and ad hoc budget reports, operating statements, financial dashboards, forecasts, variance analyses, and executive reports and financial analyses.
• Prepares required budget and financial reports for executive leadership, the Executive Budget Office, Governor's Office, General Assembly, and other authorized stakeholders.
• Responds to fiscal impact requests, legislative inquires, management questions, and other time-sensitive financial requests.
• Maintains and oversees budget-related structures, master data, reports, projections, and processes within SCEIS and other agency financial systems.
• Ensures appropriate alignment between authorized positions, personnel costs, payroll projections, operating budgets, appropriations, funding sources, and organizational structures.
• Coordinates budget amendments, transfers, funding changes, position-related budget actions, fiscal-year rollover activities, and other transactions affecting agency budgets.
• Works with Finance, Human Resources, Payroll, Information Technology, and other stakeholders to identify and resolve budget data discrepancies and…