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Management Analyst Opportunity

Are you a data and spreadsheet guru ready to discover where your talents can take you next? Discover just how bright your future can be in San Marcos! The City of San Marcos is looking for a top-notch management analyst to join our close-knit team. We're looking for someone with big ideas, who will continue raising the bar and keep our team striving for innovation. This is your chance to join an exceptional agency at an extraordinary time!

San Marcos, California is distinct for our:

• Entrepreneurial approach of a real estate portfolio
• Growth rate of median household incomes outpacing the region. With access to high quality schools and safe environments.
• Multiple higher education and healthcare institutions - Known as the education hub of North County.
• Love of the outdoors and values community With miles of beautiful parks & trails, great restaurants and plenty places to shop, San Marcos has everything you need to enjoy life.

The right person

This is a high-impact opportunity for a strategic, analytical professional to play a key role in shaping an assigned department's financial and operational success. In this role, you will lead complex budget development and monitoring efforts, serve as a trusted partner on fiscal matters with the Finance Department, and ensure the timely preparation and oversight of critical reports required by law and regulation for government bodies and external agencies. You will also drive the development and maintenance of dashboards and performance reporting that support departmental goals, inform decision-making, and help turn data into action.

To join our team, you will need to:

• Be a vocal team member who is always willing to share your ideas of how the City can cut red tape, work smarter, and stay ahead of the curve so that our City meets and exceeds its goals
• Be a dedicated team player - you thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy learning from your peers within and outside the department. You believe that success of a team comes when a team always supports one another and lives by the ideology that no task is too small.
• Use your analytical and investigative skills to solve complex problems and help City departments achieve their goals by using data to drive decision making.
• Use your high level of customer service skills and creative thinking to develop reporting tools for departments to successfully manage their department funds, projects, and other processes.
• Be comfortable assisting in monitoring multiple budgets simultaneously across different projects or funds by creating or maintaining reports showing expenditure and revenue trends.
• Use data analytics and business intelligence to help streamline reporting and other processes for City departments.
• Be comfortable with pivoting and changing priorities to successfully deliver projects with varying deadlines.
• Be a self-starter who brings new ideas to the table and runs with it.
• Have a passion for gathering data and transforming it from raw into a finished product with a compelling narrative to inform important community decisions.

Depending on qualifications and experience of the applicants, this recruitment is being flexibly advertised for the range of Management Analyst or Senior Management Analyst. There is one vacancy.

The right place

Just minutes away the Pacific Ocean, San Marcos is emerging as one of San Diego County's most desirable communities, with top-ranked schools and California's newest state university. With multiple beaches and epic year-round weather, the recreation opportunities are endless. Our economy continues to grow as people discover that San Marcos is a great place to live, work and play. This position will allow you to be an integral part of shaping the City for generations.

In San Marcos, you can:

• Explore our 47 beautiful parks, which add more than 300 acres of open space Trek 63 miles of trails through some of area's most scenic vistas
• Learn at any one of the six educational institutions
• Celebrate the community spirit at more than 50 annual events Dine at more than 240 restaurants and breweries

The right perks

• Earn a competitive salary
• Gain generous health benefits (all medical premiums employer paid at 90%)
• Enjoy ample time off (14 paid holidays, 96 hours of sick leave, 80 hours of vacation leave)
• Cell phone allowance or City issued cell phone
• Popular 9/80 work schedule with every other Friday off
• Participate in the CalPERS retirement system (Classic members 2% @ 55, PEPRA members 2% @ 62) and Social Security
• Please view the Benefits tab to learn more about the benefits offered with this position.

Core values and expectations: At the City of San Marcos, we uphold a set of core values that guide our work culture and decision-making processes. In this role, you will be expected to demonstrate the following values:

• Be problem solvers (customer service): Actively identify and resolve issues to exceed customer expectations. Anticipate and address problems quickly to provide effective solutions.
• Be good partners (teamwork): Collaborate across departments and with external partners to create mutually beneficial solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders.
• Fiscal responsibility (operate like an efficient business): Make informed decisions with an emphasis on efficiency, always considering the financial impact to ensure the City's long-term fiscal health.
• Build to last (professionalism): Maintain a high standard of work, ensuring that decisions and actions are sustainable and beneficial for the City in the long run.

Recruitment timeline:

Applications accepted through: April 29, 2026 First interview: May 11, 2026 Second interview: TBD