Senior Budget Analyst

Requirements

MOS Code: 3451 (Marine Corps)

Education and Experience : A Bachelor's degree or higher in business or public administration, accounting, finance, or a related field and two (2) years of professional experience in budgetary or fiscal analysis and/or research and statistical analysis.

Licenses and Certificates : None.

General Purpose

Under general supervision, perform complex and specialized analytical work related to the projection of revenues and the preparation and administration of the annual City budget.

Typical Duties

Plan and coordinate the development of multiple and complex annual budgets for assigned departments. Involves: Monitor and reconcile operating and project-related revenues. Ensure that expenditures are within budgetary and policy guidelines. Inform management of budget deviations, problems, and events likely to affect operations. Prepare cost analyses, including projections and recovery alternatives. Confer with departmental staff to obtain information, advise, and assist department directors and others on budgetary issues. Make recommendations on the use and distribution of funds, including allocation of indirect program costs and budget evaluation techniques. Oversee, coordinate, and prepare a variety of technical reports on estimates, costing data, and budget limits. Perform a variety of operational, planning, and management studies. Participate in the strategic planning process for the City's future growth and impact on services. Assist in the preparation of the annual debt service budget, oversee and reconcile debt proceeds.

Prepare the City's annual budget and monitor the execution of the approved budget. Involves: Collect and compile data for production of the annual budget document. Participate in and make presentations in budgetary and related hearings. Represent the department in meetings with various departments, committees, and other intergovernmental agencies. Train City staff in various budget and financial matters. Maintain accurate financial and statistical records. Review, process, evaluate, and verify a variety of budgetary and financial information. Identify, investigate, and resolve financial errors and discrepancies. Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.

Review policies, objectives, and operational plans of grant-funded programs. Involves: Advise on grant program matters. Review and recommend grant application submissions. Recommend city matching funds requirements. Report on the budgetary impact upon grant termination.

Participate in management studies, Lean Six Sigma projects, or other various assignments. Involves: Identify and review current processes and/or procedures. Perform financial analysis to identify costs and efficiencies. Compile recommendations for process improvement.

Supervise designated employees, if assigned. Involves: Assign, schedule, guide, and monitor work. Appraise employee performance. Counsel, motivate, and maintain harmony. Interview applicants. Recommend hiring, termination, transfers, discipline, merit pay, or other employee status changes. Enforce personnel rules and regulations and work behavior standards firmly and impartially.

General Information

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Note: This is an unclassified contract position.

Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

Please note: Applicants with a foreign degree must have all documents translated and evaluated by an agency of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department. Please visit www.naces.org/members for more information.

A résumé and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application. Comments such as “See résumé” are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, the required education, experience, knowledge, and skills must be clearly stated on your application’s employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses refe rring to your résumé will eliminate you from consideration for the position.

Determined by agreement

Closing Date/Time: 12/31/2024 11:59 PM Mountain

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• City of El Paso

• 915-212-1244

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