Budget Analyst

Role overview

Examples of work

• Researches and prepares proposed budgets, revenue and expenditure data, staff analyses, reports, and substantive legislation.
• Analyzes proposed legislation and summarizes its effectiveness and potential impacts on the state and others.
• Researches and drafts legislation and amendments at legislators’ direction.
• Plans committee meetings, including agendas, speakers, presentations, and materials.
• Monitors legislative implementation in the Executive Branch and briefs legislators on committee, floor, and constituent issues.
• Conducts research projects and legislatively mandated studies; prepares reports with recommendations for legislative action.
• Provides information and problem-solving assistance to legislators, constituents, and the public.
• Prepares correspondence, summaries, talk sheets, speeches, reports, and informational memoranda.
• Tracks developments in the assigned area and serves as liaison with state agencies.
• Coordinates work of support staff and uses word-processing, database, and spreadsheet applications.

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of state budgeting processes, the Legislative Budget System/Planning and Budgeting Subsystem (LASPBS), legal terminology and research, committee subject matter, Florida government, and legislative procedures.
• Uses Microsoft Office applications and Adobe; analyzes and organizes information and data.
• Communicates effectively in writing and orally, conducts meetings and presentations, and produces documented analysis under deadlines.
• Works independently, exercises judgment and discretion, coordinates assignments, and maintains effective working relationships.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and three years of professional experience in research, analysis, program planning and evaluation, or administrative work.
• A master’s degree may substitute for one [source description ends mid-qualification].
• State budgeting knowledge and experience, or related experience in transportation, highway safety, economic development, or emergency management, is preferable.

Financial disclosure