Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Public Administration, Business Administration, or related field. A minimum of five to ten years of professional experience to include financial analysis, developing and monitoring budgets or performing related fiscal or management analysis is required. A Masters degree may substitute for one year of the required experience. Preferences: Strong analytical and technical skills. Extensive knowledge in financial reporting, analysis, modeling, budgeting, and forecasting. Proven capability to harness structured and unstructured data. Proficiency in MS Excel (Creating advanced formulas, Pivot Tables, and modeling), working knowledge of data visualization platforms (PowerBI preferred, Tableau).
Recruitment Notes
This is advanced and highly responsible professional budget analysis work for the Office of the Commission Auditor (OCA).
The incumbent is responsible for coordinating the development and planning of financial analysis and operating and capital budgets, including producing financial reports and budget proposals. Responsibilities include conducting complex revenue and expenditure projections, reporting the fiscal performance of operating and capital funds, presenting performance measures, analyzing selected high-priority complex capital projects and budgets, and making recommendations regarding overall County spending and budgetary and fiscal programmatic policy issues.
Related duties include working with department directors and other departmental financial, budget, and administrative employees throughout the year to prepare, analyze, monitor, and report departmental operating and capital budgets, revenue and expenditure, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Duties include conducting highly sensitive and complex financial and programmatic research, conducting comparative tax research and fiscal impact analyses, making presentations to the public, and conducting special assignments assigned by the Commission Auditor.
Incumbents exercise considerable independent judgment in their responsibilities. General direction is received from a professional superior, who holds the incumbent responsible for achieving established goals and objectives.
Illustrative Tasks
Analyze data from various sources to compile a comprehensive picture of overall county operations, process mapping, and process narratives. Create documentation of finance, data, and analytics processes.
Ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data, reports, and transactions and providing research and analysis to support the Commission Auditor and Boards decision-making.
Leverage general finance and budget experience to assess government programs and to understand the broader impact of those programs.
Coordinates the review and development of proposed operating and capital budgets, including the production of actual budget documents.
Conducts complex revenue and expenditure forecasts with particular emphasis on general discretionary operating and capital funds.
Analyzes high-priority complex departmental operating and capital transactions from initial budget submission and development to year-end close out.
Evaluate projects and forecast departmental budgetary and financial activity, including analysis of variances related to budgeted levels for large complex departments.
Coordinates the planning and programming of large-scale County capital improvement programs.
Coordinates and conducts sensitive and complex budgetary policy, financial, statistical, and programmatic research; conducts comparative tax research and fiscal impact analyses; develops performance measurement systems and fiscal indicators.
Monitors, evaluates and reviews the programmatic performance of assigned departments; assists in securing budgetary policy objectives.
Audits staffing levels and personnel-related spending and authorizes personnel recruitment based on funding availability.
Develops policy recommendations regarding County funding, staffing, services, and activities.
Performs related work as required.
Knowledge, Abilities & Skills
Extensive knowledge of County financial and budgetary processes and related legal and procedural requirements.
Extensive knowledge of departmental operating and capital expenditures, budget preparation, analysis, monitoring and reporting.
Extensive knowledge of the organization and operation of County departments and agencies.
Thorough knowledge of research techniques and the sources and availability of current information.
Thorough knowledge of the principles of management and public administration.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with superiors and a variety of other public officials.
Ability to monitor, evaluate and review programmatic performance of assigned departments.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing.
Ability to prepare complex narrative and financial information required for decision making.