Budget Analyst

Position overview

Duties

• Maintain payroll coding to properly allocate federal funding for employees.
• Validate or create OAKS HCM funding combination codes.
• Update the chart of accounts and create chartfields as needed.
• Create and assign position budget tables based on payroll coding.
• Maintain OAKS FIN financial coding and speedcharts.
• Process biweekly payroll journals and prepare journals for general-ledger posting.
• Prepare reconciliation journals and track personnel actions to validate payroll coding.
• Prepare reports with BI Cognos, Kronos, OAKS HCM, or OAKS FIN and present findings.
• Assist with quarterly administrative cost reports using cost pools and direct costs.
• Update the cost allocation plan as agency operations and structure change.

Qualifications

• Three years of budgeting experience including fiscal analysis, management, and control, or an equivalent qualification.
• Alternative: undergraduate core program in accounting, public finance, public administration, or business administration plus 12 months of qualifying budgeting experience.
• Alternative: graduate core program in accounting, public finance, public administration, or business administration, including quantitative or statistical analysis coursework.
• Examples of qualifying analysis include probability, regression, trend analysis, forecasting, and cost-benefit analysis.

Pay range

• The listed wage progression is $31.47–$43.90 per hour, with annual equivalents of $65,458–$91,312. Starting pay is generally step 1 unless legislation or a union contract requires otherwise.
• The posting describes step advancement at six months and annually thereafter, with possible cost-of-living increases and longevity supplements.

Hiring process

• The selected candidate must undergo a criminal background check; convictions are assessed individually.