Budget Analyst

Budget Analyst

In this role as a senior budget analyst, you will be responsible for:

Serving as a senior budget analyst, performing the full range of budget work providing expert advice and guidance and developing plans, procedures, and instructions for formulating and executing program budgets applicable to agency operations.

Formulating annual and multi-year payroll budget estimates, including analyzing staffing levels, projecting the fiscal impact of personnel actions, calculating comprehensive fully burdened labor costs, monitoring full-time equivalent usage against authorized ceilings, reconciling biweekly payroll actuals, and developing complex "what-if" scenarios to advise leadership on budgetary impacts.

Developing and preparing guidance on complex budget policy issues referred because of the complexity or sensitivity of the topics involved, precedent setting implications, short suspense time, deviation from established regulations, or other unusual actions.

Recommending, justifying, and providing rationale for any reprogramming of funds and restructuring of projects/programs to ensure adequate and efficient distribution of resources, and advises of potential or immediate changes in plans or policies.

Verifying and monitoring integrated operating program data in various financial systems and consolidates the data for an overview of the financial status of major programs and operations. Evaluates data relationships between operating programs and the financial state of assigned organizations. Enters and adjusts data for a wide variety of reports.

Evaluating total program execution to detect potential financial problem areas and initiates corrective actions. Prepares and participates in program reviews to determine progress against approved funding, schedules, and objectives.

Interpreting financial data to identify trends and real or potential financial problems. Ensures erroneous or unclear data, reports, or documentation are detected and corrected prior to release of final financial reports.

Reviewing a variety of incoming, outgoing, and summary documents to ensure the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of financial operations and financial reports.