About This Role
The Budget Analyst helps shape the financial decisions that support the community of Albany. This position offers an opportunity to apply skills in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, labor costing, and data analysis while partnering with departments and City leadership. You will turn complex financial information into clear analysis and recommendations, help monitor and forecast departmental budgets, evaluate the financial impact of organizational decisions, and support the City’s operating and capital budget processes. This role suits a detail-oriented financial professional who enjoys solving problems, collaborating with others, and using data to make a difference.
Responsibilities
- Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of the City’s biennial operating and capital budgets by assisting with assigned departmental budgets, budget requests, revenue estimates, staffing proposals, capital requests, service-level recommendations, budget adjustments, and supporting documentation
- Develop, maintain, and utilize financial models, forecasting tools, budget databases, and analytical resources to support revenue projections, expenditure forecasts, personnel cost projections, budget development, and financial reporting
- Analyze revenues, expenditures, staffing, program costs, and financial trends
- Conduct cost variance analyses
- Evaluate financial impacts
- Identify issues and opportunities
- Prepare recommendations and supporting information to assist management with decision-making
- Analyze authorized position and workforce data to develop personnel cost projections, evaluate staffing proposals, estimate vacancy savings, and support labor costing, compensation analysis, workforce planning, collective bargaining preparation, and other organizational initiatives
- Monitor assigned budget activities throughout the biennium
- Evaluate budget performance, financial trends, and variances
- Identify potential fiscal impacts
- Provide information and recommendations regarding budget status
- Ensure compliance with Oregon Local Budget Law, applicable accounting standards, City policies, and regulatory requirements
- Prepare recurring and special financial reports, budget analyses, presentations, and supporting documentation for departments, management, Budget Review Committee, City Council, and other stakeholders
- Communicate financial information clearly to audiences with varying levels of financial expertise
- Provide assistance, training, and guidance to departments regarding budget policies, procedures, financial systems, reporting tools, and budget development processes
- Respond to requests for financial information and analysis
- Participate in financial analyses, organizational studies, performance analyses, grant and funding evaluations, process improvement initiatives, and other special projects requiring analytical skills and professional judgment
- Use spreadsheet applications, financial systems, reporting tools, business intelligence resources, and artificial intelligence-assisted analytical technologies to improve financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and operational efficiency while ensuring accuracy, reliability, confidentiality, and integrity of financial information
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Public Administration, Business Administration, or a closely related field and three years of progressively responsible professional experience in budgeting, financial analysis, accounting, forecasting, or a closely related field; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to successfully perform the essential functions of the position
- Possession of or ability to obtain a valid Oregon driver's license and a driving record that meets the City’s driving record standards
Nice to have:
- Local government budgeting experience
Benefits
- Excellent medical, vision and dental benefit package for the employee and qualified family members with low monthly out-of-pocket cost
- City-paid contribution to a VEBA Trust account for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Currently, the annual contribution is $2,000 for employee-only and $4,000 for employee plus dependent(s)
- 17 hours of vacation leave per month, with progressive increases
- 8 hours of sick leave per month
- 10 paid holidays per year
- City-paid participation in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPSRP and City pays 6% IAP contribution)
- City-paid 2.5% contribution into pre-tax deferred compensation plan
- Job-related college tuition and book reimbursement
- Employee assistance program
- Basic life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts for healthcare and childcare expenses
Important Details
- Application deadline: Applications received after Sunday, September 13th will be considered only as needed
- Occasional travel between City facilities and other work locations is required
Application Process
- Include both a resume and a cover letter in your application
- Applications will begin being reviewed on Monday, September 14th
About the Company
The City of Albany is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. Employees are expected to contribute to the effective operation of the City by providing high-quality service; supporting a culture of collaboration, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement; and demonstrating leadership from any seat through taking ownership of one’s work, demonstrating initiative, identifying opportunities for improvement, contributing solutions, supporting colleagues, and acting in alignment with the City’s Mission, Vision, Values, and organizational priorities regardless of position or title.
