Budget and Accounting Analyst

Position overview

Budget analysis and oversight

• Review state and federal budgets and collect data for budget development, forecasting, and expenditure analysis.
• Guide spending plans, federal reporting, and monthly obligation submissions.
• Assess spending patterns, cost drivers, and funding trends to recommend effective use and return of funds.
• Analyze DDS operating-budget trends and develop recommendations for monthly obligation reports.
• Reconcile expenditures and encumbrances accurately and on time and align financial activities with approved budgets and methods of finance.
• Maintain financial data integrity and compliance; prepare requests, fiscal notes, and budget recommendations.

Financial reporting and process development

• Prepare and analyze financial data, spending plans, monthly obligation reports, and quarterly reports across state and federal Methods of Finance.
• Develop budget formulas for appropriation requests using financial reports and records.
• Establish work methods, analytical techniques, priorities, and processes to strengthen spending plans, budget procedures, and funding requests.
• Identify reporting improvements and assist agency planning initiatives.
• Provide guidance on financial planning, accounting documents, and financial records.

Role requirements

• Perform advanced budget preparation, forecasting, analysis, and fiscal oversight with minimal supervision and independent judgment.
• Interpret complex state and federal financial reports and assess operational impacts.
• Apply federal and state fiscal requirements, Social Security Administration requirements, laws, accounting standards, auditing principles, and departmental procedures.
• Support timely, accurate agency deliverables, including the Strategic Plan, Legislative Appropriations Request, fiscal notes, legislative analyses, and federal funding requests.

Schedule and travel

• Day shift; first shift.
• Travel is listed as up to 5%.

Workplace

• Telework is not eligible for this position.
• The listed work location is Austin, Texas.

Compensation

• Salary range is $5,425.33–$8,886.16 per month.