Senior Budget Analyst

City of Boise · Boise, ID · 3 days ago

Full-time

Summary Statement

The City of Boise is hiring a Senior Budget Analyst! This role will provide advanced financial analysis, budget planning, forecasting, and strategic decision support for city departments and citywide initiatives.

About the Role

Serves as a budget advisor and resource for city departments and/or budget office leadership on budget and financial matters. Collaborates with various stakeholders and assigned departments with expert level knowledge of operations, producing annual budgets, creating revenue estimates and developing financial strategy.

Responsibilities

Manages the production of monthly budget variance reports, budget changes and memos that support presentations to the mayor and city council.
Produces monthly revenue and expense forecasts and contributes to the development and maintenance of long-term cash flow models for assigned departments.
Performs and coordinates analysis and provides insight and budget guidance on various projects.
Conducts special projects, including those regarding cost and revenue studies, property tax, CIP, development impact fees, priority based budgeting and performance projects or other analyses.
Compiles statistical and analytical data into reports for decision and policy makers.
Creates and maintains financial models and tools for forecasting, cost planning and other financial projects.
Acts as a financial resource to internal customers to identify and develop reporting specifically tailored for departmental needs.
Collaborates, coordinates, communicates and works significantly with a team to achieve varying objectives as required in each situation.
Collaborates with business process owners, senior managers and department administrative managers to oversee the formation and implementation of long-term financial management strategies, procedures, software, and stays aware of department regulations and trends.
Presents information effectively to both small and large groups.
Represents the assigned departments at various public meetings in partnership with operational managers.
Develops quarterly and annual budget updates, presented to the city’s executive management team, distributed to city council and made available to Boise citizens.
Gathers data from various outside agencies and entities.
Uses technical tools to organize report data, including key economic indicators for the city, region, state and nation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting or related field.
Five years of experience performing duties such as budget development, strategic planning and financial reporting in a complex organization.
Experience collaborating with various stakeholders as a business partner to accomplish organizational goals and objectives, including financial and econometric modeling.
Knowledge of the inter-relationship between budget and accounting or other financially related groups.

Skills

Functional Knowledge Of Large municipal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Application and data mining tools.
Techiques and methods used in financial analysis and sound business practices.
Governmental budgeting theories and practices.

Benefits

This role offers an exceptional benefits and total rewards package that enhances the overall value of employment with the City of Boise. Details about benefits can be found on the City of Boise Benefits website.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $75,000 - $100,000 annually. Offers are made within the posted hiring range. Although the hiring range is fixed, employees receive an exceptional benefits and total rewards package that enhances the overall value of employment with the City of Boise.

Schedule

The Senior Budget Analyst works full-time, Monday through Friday, with occasional weekend work as required.