Budget Planning Operations Analyst

Job Profile:

Financial Analyst 1

Job Family:

Budget, Planning and Financial Analysis Time Type:

Full time

Max Pay – Depends on experience:$80,000.00 USD Annual Apply before 11:59 PM Arizona time the day before the posted End Date.

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate's degree and one (1) year of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.

Job Profile

Summary:

Performs simple financial analysis, reporting, and systems development in support of other financial activities within the institution. Performs commitment analysis, variance analysis (actual vs budget); revenue and expense projections/forecasts.

May have interactions outside department, as functionally required.

Job Description:

Position Salary Range:$70,000 - $80,000 depending on experience

As Budget Planning and Operations Analyst, you serve as budget liaison to assigned administrative/Vice President (“VP”) units or academic units, supporting chief business officers through ASU’s internal annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and mid-year CFO financial review processes. You contribute to critical external budget production and reporting, preparing key deliverables throughout the fiscal year for the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC), and Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting (OSPB).This

position may report to the Director, Budget Planning and Operations (BPO) or to a senior subordinate to the Director as functionally required. This role provides an opportunity for a hybrid work schedule, currently set at 60% in-office and 40% remote.

Applicant must be eligible to work in the United States; ASU Office of Planning and Budget will not be a sponsor for this position.

Essential Duties:

Internal budget liaison

You are the primary relationship manager and point of contact in OPB for your assigned administrative/VP area budget units. In support of both your budget units and the CFO, you perform work to support central resource planning, annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and mid-year CFO financial review processes. You prepare cost and budget unit variance analyses, develop revenue and expense forecasts, analyze trends, and compile commitment analyses.

As needed, you perform financial account reconciliations, financial statement analysis, and transaction research to support unit planning efforts and executive decision making. To facilitate the allocation of central university resources to ASU administrative/VP area budget units, you are responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and processing financial transactions from your assigned central university accounts.

To meaningfully contribute to all of these internal efforts, you develop a strong understanding of the core functionality of Working Adaptive Planning, ASU’s enterprise-wide budget and planning software. You demonstrate subject matter expertise through your ability to provide technical guidance to your assigned units, thereby enhancing their use of the system in support of their unit budgeting, forecasting, and reporting needs.

You employ technical knowledge of Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday Financial Management System (FMS) to develop data-driven solutions to the financial, operational, or strategic issues facing your assigned budget units. You use effective interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, including the ability to speak and write with clarity and precision, to obtain and convey information related to your assigned budget units.

You demonstrate a degree of comfort and professionalism in regular interactions with mid-level, and occasionally, senior-level administrators of the university. You take initiative, demonstrate resourcefulness, and display a sense of urgency in fulfilling commitments. You build trust and effective working relationships by communicating in an open manner and following through on commitments. You handle conflict and difficult situations in a professional way, working toward consensus.

Supporting external budget reporting

You construct financial…