Budget Analyst 2

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Assist with college budget development and adjustments throughout the year.
• Coordinate program and budget planning with budget leaders and staff.
• Prepare and present expenditure forecasts, reports, findings, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Generate ctcLink budget-to-expense and revenue-to-expense queries to support compliance reviews and variance identification.
• Review allotment requests and position actions and recommend approval, modification, or disapproval.
• Review earmark and proviso spending allocations with departments to ensure correct account coding.
• Create or inactivate combo codes for full-time positions and coordinate code changes with departments.
• Explain accounting and budgeting systems, procedures, and processes to stakeholders.
• Analyze payroll issues, healthcare costs, job data errors, prior budgets, and cost-of-living adjustments.

Minimum qualifications

• Proficiency in Excel is required.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize, multitask, and work under pressure are required.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team is required.
• Customer service, problem-solving, timeliness, confidentiality, budget-process knowledge, and attention to detail are required.

Preferred qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in business, public administration, accounting, economics, or statistics, or professional experience in budgets, management, or program analysis, is preferred.
• Two years of accounting, bookkeeping, budgeting, or related financial experience is preferred.

Compensation

• Salary range is $52,920–$71,148 annually; classified positions start at Step A.
• After completing the six-month probationary period, salary increases by two steps.

Employment terms

• This is a full-time classified position scheduled for 40 hours per week.
• The position is covered by a Washington Public Employees Association collective bargaining agreement.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical and vision, dental, disability and life insurance, flexible spending and dependent-care programs, wellness programs, and retirement plans.