Budget and Policy Analyst, Senior
About the role
The Department of Budget & Strategic Planning is seeking a dynamic, team‑oriented, enthusiastic, and hardworking candidate to join its team! Incumbents must be self‑starters, exceptional communicators and listeners, problem solvers, critical thinkers, and most importantly, team players. Incumbents will join a dynamic team of individuals to help achieve the Department’s mission, which is: To provide corporate, performance‑informed oversight for the development, analysis, and execution of the City’s budgeting and strategic performance management processes as well as grant support to balance the needs and resources of the community. Specifically, incumbents will play a vital team role in the development of the City’s nearly multi‑billion‑dollar budget. The selected candidate will have the opportunity to work with multiple municipal departments and employees, learning about key government operations, assisting departments in solving budgetary and financial challenges that may arise, and helping chart a course for the overall improvement in city department operations – making them more efficient, accountable, effective, and aware of local government activity.
Responsibilities
- Analyzing complex issues to facilitate and execute decision‑making
- Serving on inter‑ and intra‑departmental committees and task forces
- Reviewing and assessing departmental performance measures
- Overseeing budgetary transactions
- Performing complex analysis
- Serving as a liaison and official representative to senior staff, external agencies, and the public
- Conducting trainings
- Researching, developing, writing, and editing complex reports and plans
- Preparing financial forecasts, reports, and presentations related to the city’s budgets
- Coordinating or leading tasks to prepare the department for budget proposal or adoption
- Understanding and dissecting complex financial transactions
- Providing policy recommendations based on research and findings