Sr. Budget Analyst

This position provides complex budget, management, financial and strategic planning analysis. Responsibilities range from consulting, planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluating city-wide governmental operations. Work includes analyzing, reviewing and making professional recommendations for the allocation and distribution of revenues and expenditures for city operations; linking the needs of the City with the desired strategic direction; providing budgetary and operational oversight throughout the year;

consulting with departments on organizational resource allocation; evaluating current operations and making recommendations for improvements in areas related to operations, management, and budget; providing direction in financial and statistical analysis; developing policies and procedures and ensuring compliance; performing complex analysis of goals, objectives, and needs of the general operating and political environment; participating in business planning; facilitating the city-wide strategic plan as well as department multi-year business plans;

developing and monitoring performance measures; and facilitating city-wide meetings.

Ideal candidates should possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Ability to evaluate budgetary requests from different perspectives to determine the benefits as well as the drawbacks if they move forward.
• Ability to assess not only spending trends but resource allocations across city functions and disciplines.
• Ability to develop and recommend cost effective and efficient city services to include recommendations for both process changes and resource allocation.
• Technical skills:
• Ability to collect and analyze data using intermediate to advanced Excel techniques.
• Ability to create visuals that show data findings.
• Ability to develop manuals, research papers and present findings to multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate groups to gather input.
• Ability to communicate written and orally in many styles (persuasive, narrative, expository and descriptive) for multiple audiences.
• Ability to complete mathematical tasks required to gather historical data, produce a data model set, forecasting models and perform directional analysis.

SPECIALIZED ASSIGNMENT AREA SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

The City is looking for any one of the three specialties depending upon the make-up of the team.

Capital Improvements Program - Coordinates and develops the City’s annual Capital Improvement Program (CIP); maintains contact and ongoing communications with multiple city departments; negotiates with associated departments regarding funding details of budget requests; develops capital programming to ensure adequate level of service standards as identified in the City’s Comprehensive Plan; budget and finance liaison to all public private partnership projects; OR

Financial Trends and Forecasting:
Tracks revenues over time to determine the direction of the trends; generate models and recommendations for actions required for budgeting and compliance; identify root causes for changes identified; generates forecast reports for Council and budget publication; designs, developments, and maintains on ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, and other data solutions; OR

Position Control/Salary Projections – Provides direct support to the Budget Team in the following areas: position control management, compensation modeling, budget scenario development, salary interfaces and year-end balance analyses, in close coordination with the Human Resource based on annual position movements and compensation rollout plans and following the City’s adopted financial policies and procedures and recognized financial (accounting and budgeting) standards.

Typical Duties Include:

• Facilitates the annual city-wide budget development and monitoring process to include but not limited to:
• Conducts data analysis and research on budget, performance, and policy issues to support financial and policy recommendations.
• Analyzes and reviews requests for merit in relationship to current fiscal and political realities.
• Provides recommendations to the City Manager’s Office on the validity of departmental requests.
• Prepares the…