Senior Budget Analyst

Division overview

Role overview

Budget analysis and reporting

• Plan and manage operating, capital, and grant budgets for assigned program areas, including allotments and cash flow.
• Forecast and monitor appropriations, expenditures, encumbrances, and utilization against targets and compliance requirements.
• Analyze spending and recommend fund transfers to meet account obligations without service interruptions.
• Develop grant spending plans from multiple data sources in line with federal and state rules.
• Prepare reports, tables, charts, and visuals that make complex data clear to their audiences.
• Investigate variances between actuals and estimates, identify drivers, and recommend corrective actions.

Fiscal operations and partnerships

• Resolve purchase order, voucher, paycard, and travel errors; complete budget transfers in the morning when possible.
• Submit journal entries by appropriation line item assignment and review and approve OhioBuys pending items daily.
• Coordinate payroll errors with Cost Management and complete journal voucher adjustments as needed.
• Work with program areas to understand operations, emerging needs, and the budget impact of policy or volume changes.
• Contribute to process improvements and special projects that improve accuracy, speed, and transparency.
• Prepare budget meeting materials with program offices.

Preferred skills

• Preferred skills include fiscal analysis across multiple data sources, research, classification, and drawing valid conclusions.
• Forecasting, trend analysis, cash flow analysis, and actual-versus-estimated expenditure comparisons are preferred.
• Report development with audience-appropriate narratives and visuals is preferred.
• OAKS BI or comparable ERP/BI reporting, strong Excel, and familiarity with charts in PowerPoint are preferred.
• Public-sector budgets, grant funding, human services programs, variance investigation, fund transfers, and allotment planning are preferred experience areas.
• Independence, prioritization, constructive communication, and experience improving processes, templates, or methodology are preferred.

Schedule and hours

• The position is full-time.
• Standard workdays are Monday through Friday, with hours between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Location and travel

• The position is headquartered at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, 30 E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
• Occasional travel within Ohio is expected.

Compensation

• The structured salary information lists USD 34–38 per hour.

Qualifications notice

• The posting says candidates must meet at least one listed qualification option, but the supplied description ends before those options are provided.

State employee benefits

• Eligible employees may receive medical coverage, dental, vision and basic life insurance, paid time off and holidays, family leave, education and development opportunities, and public retirement plan options.
• Benefits eligibility depends on position-specific factors.