Budget Finance Officer

About the role

Under the direction of the Chief Financial Officer, the Budget Finance Officer oversees budget planning, development, and administration and financial analysis, expenditure and revenue forecasting, and reporting for assigned departments, programs, grants, and projects. This position ensures accurate and timely budget and financial reporting to external funders, auditors, and regulatory agencies. In addition, this position ensures financial integrity, alignment, and reconciliation of financial, banking, budgeting, purchasing, and position control systems and processes.

Qualifications

Knowledge

• Budgeting, cost allocation methodologies, data analytics, business intelligence, and data visualization software (i.e., Power BI, Cognos, Tableau, SAP Business Objects, SAP Analytics, etc.) or other reporting software, financial applications, spreadsheets, and statistics
• Design of financial reports, dashboards, and financial performance management
• General Ledger and Chart of Account structures and layouts
• Accounting and budgeting principles, practices, and workflows
• Treasury operations, accounting, finance, cost allocation and braided funding streams and their interdependencies
• Auditing principles and methods to ensure the validity and financial integrity of financial reports
• Qualitative and quantitative evaluation principles and processes to ensure financial compliance with funders and regulatory requirements

Ability

• Develop and employ mathematics, statistics, and computer science methods and tools to manage large financial data sets, data warehouse dimensional modeling, and data analytics methods to communicate outcomes, trends, and comparative analysis across multiple financial, payroll, and purchasing systems
• Strong work ethic with a commitment to fiscal integrity and personal accountability
• Work independently, with minimal guidance and supervision
• Take initiative, proactive, seeking to continually improve business processes
• Work collaboratively and successfully within a team
• Work in an environment that requires flexibility to meet changing needs or demands
• Produce accurate work products, multi-task, meet deadlines, and achieve results in a high demand and fast paced environment

Education

B.A. Degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, Economics or Business Administration from an accredited college or university.

Experience

• Five (5) years’ experience at the Senior Budget Analyst, Senior Accountant, Senior Auditor or equivalent position with responsibility overseeing accounting, budgeting, or auditing functions for multiple departments, programs, projects, and grants, preferably in a nonprofit or public entity
• Extensive formal responsibility and experience interpreting federal, state, and local governmental regulations, financial funding requirements, and developing and managing budgeting operations
• Experience developing and maintaining cost allocation models for revenue and expenses and supporting accounting ledgers and documentation
• Experience performing formal financial/accounting compliance audits

Benefits

• 21 PTO days per year
• 9 Nationally Observed Holidays
• 401k matching up to 6%
• Up to $10,000 in the Degree Assistance Program
• Affordable monthly health care premiums

Pay

Pay range is between $93,330 - $119,115.36 per year. The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and other factors permitted by law.