Senior Budget Analyst

Role overview

Budget analysis and administration

• Assists departments, agencies, and committees with annual budget development and budget-process questions, research, analysis, and recommendations.
• Reviews complex submissions for compliance with guidelines and format, recommends action to higher-level budget officials, adjusts budgets based on administration and Board decisions, and consolidates the annual budget document.
• Updates budgeting software and prepares reports on filled and vacant positions, including historical vacancy data.
• Manages internal adjustments, grant carryovers, funding checks for purchase requisitions, and temporary control budgets.
• Monitors annual revenues and expenditures, maintains budget controls, and corrects errors with journal entries.
• Prepares monthly journal entries and creates or purges accounts, departments, funds, and projects in the budget and financial system.
• Processes Budget and Finance purchase requisitions and invoices, outside-agency vouchers, ACH payments, and stop payments.

Training, coordination, and communication

• Trains leadership, department budget preparers, and budget and finance analysts; updates the annual operating budget guide and software user manual.
• Coordinates with Information Technology to ensure budget preparers have appropriate security roles and software access.
• Coordinates the annual budget schedule with internal departments and outside agencies and arranges workshops and public hearings.
• Prepares charts, graphs, and diagrams for budget workshops and assists with the Citizen Guide to the Budget.

Policies and budget documents

• Develops and standardizes procedures and policies to improve efficiency, consistency, and sound financial practices.
• Reviews position and reclassification requests and provides information to the Salary Committee.
• Assists with budget-document design and ensures published information is accurate and reflects the County's vision and mission.

Requirements

• Professional-level capability to develop, administer, maintain, and analyze budgets with minimal supervision.
• Ability to review complex budget submissions for compliance with established guidelines and formats and make recommendations to higher-level budget officials.
• Ability to assist departments with budget-related questions through research, analysis, and recommendations.
• Ability to prepare and maintain accurate budget instructions, training materials, reporting, and published budget information.
• Ability to coordinate with departments, agencies, leadership, and external organizations throughout the budget process.