BUDGET ANALYST

About the role

The Office of Budget Administration (OBA) provides fiscal planning and budget oversight for the Department of Social Services / Human Resources Administration and the Department of Homeless Services. OBA is responsible for the preparation and negotiation of the Agency's four-year expense, revenue and capital budgets; management of the annual budget cycle; identification and analysis of service demand trends, policy directives, legislative changes and other mandates; and developing strategies to maximize the use of existing budget resources. In collaboration with program areas, OBA prepares cost reduction initiatives and reviews program proposals to ensure programs operate within the budget.

The Affordable and Supportive Housing Unit oversees housing programs, including the Homelessness Prevention Administration (HPA), Affordable Housing Services (AHS), Senior Housing (SARA), Single Room Occupancies (SROs), and the Homebase program. The HPA consists of three programs: Housing & Homeless Services, Legal Assistance/Rental Subsidies, and Strategic Initiatives & Administration.

OBA is recruiting for one Associate Staff Analyst to function as a Budget Analyst in the Affordable and Supportive Housing Unit.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Budget Director in overseeing the budgets for one or more program areas.
• Assist the Budget Director in monitoring all budgetary, programmatic and staffing issues affecting an assigned program/administrative area.
• Assist programs in preparing budget requests including prioritizing program choices for expansion, realignment, or defunding.
• Prepare regular expenditure reports, identify and analyze discrepancies between planned and actual expenses.
• Analyze, review, and provide recommendations for requests for new funding and cost reduction initiatives.
• Review, coordinate, support, and process contract and procurement actions.
• Monitor program spending to ensure that spending does not exceed the approved budget.
• Analyze state and federal budgets and legislation to determine impact on the budgets of assigned programs.
• Prepare surplus/needs analysis at the end of the fiscal year.
• Liaise between OBA and the program area, as well as OMB to discuss budgetary and programmatic impacts.
• Perform other special projects as needed.

Requirements

• A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, public health, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school, and one year of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following:
  • working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research;
  • in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation;
  • in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management, or in a related area;
• Or a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and three years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in the areas described above;
• Or an associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and five years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in the areas described above;
• Or a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and seven years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in the areas described above;
• Or a combination of education and/or experience equivalent to the above. College education may be substituted for professional experience at the rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of experience. All candidates must have a high school diploma and at least one year of experience as described above.