BUDGET ANALYST COORDINATOR - 06232026-78530

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and experience equivalent to three years of full-time increasingly responsible professional budget analytic work experience.
• Additional graduate coursework in business administration, public administration, or other related acceptable field may be substituted for the required experience, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of two years.
• Two years of increasingly responsible professional budget analytic experience with the State of Tennessee may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.

Responsibilities

• Assembles fiscal and statistical data for use in budgetary evaluations and budget hearings and assists in the development and submission of the Departmental operating and capital budgets.
• Analyzes monthly departmental budgeting and accounting extracts to maintain expenditure and revenue reports.
• Maintains expenditure and revenue reports through electronic formats to provide accurate budget reports as required by policy and procedures.
• Prepares Annual Budget Requests in accordance with Finance and Administration Budget guidelines.
• Prepares periodic reports comparing budgeted costs verses actual costs and budgeted revenues to actual revenues.
• Analyzes financial data to prepare revenue and expenditure forecasts and provides input and planning on long-range financial needs.
• Prepares special statistical and financial reports as required, and participates in the approval processes for purchases of goods and services.
• Gathers current period expenditures and revenues through electronic formats to provide accurate budget reports as required by policy and procedures.
• May visit field offices to assist with budgetary and statistical analysis needs as necessary.
• Assists in the coordination and administration of the department's operating budgets for assigned business units.
• Assists in the explanation of the budget document's needs and methods to insure proper preparation of estimates and detail.
• Creates salary administration plans to determine their effect on the budget and drafts requests for budget revisions and approval.
• Presents information, reports, and/or data on departmental programs for the legislature and interested parties in accordance with code, policy, and procedures.
• Maintains file and analyze statistical data to identify program trends and possible fiscal impacts.
• May oversee performance management and training of subordinate staff and other individuals assisting in budgets, projects, and activities.
• Participates in recruiting and may recommend applicants for employment.

Necessary Special Qualifications

None.

Overview

Under general supervision, is responsible for budget analytic work of considerable difficulty which may include the supervision of professional budget analytic staff. An employee in this class assists in the coordination of the budget process and its administration.