Budgeting & Analytics Professional - Business Professional II - R14505

Sarasota County Government Job Posting

This is a lead level professional staff whose work involves the management of the department budget, coordinating the business planning and budget planning processes, conducting research, and compiling and analyzing data.

Financial Duties :

• Assists in and manages development of initial proposed annual Public Utilities budgets and is responsible for organization of the annual budget in GovMax system.
• Researches, develops, manages, and coordinates with Public Utilities management team and OFM budget analysts regarding inputting annual operating and CIP budgets into Gov / Max.
• Monitors the operating budgets and funds and provides monthly financial information through reports to the Public Utilities management team.
• Identifies trends and / or problems through statistical analysis.
• Participates in periodic meetings with individual Public Utilities Division Management teams to monitor adopted and amended operating budgets, YTD actual expenditures, year-end projected expenditures, and projected variances to approved amended budget.
• Assists in oversight of budgetary functions for the Public Utilities Department, as needed and requested by the management team, including development of expenditure dashboards.
• Participates in development of budget workshop presentations; briefs managers, attending meetings for back-up to presenters.
• Assists in Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs) and assures projects are budgeted correctly including required entries into GovMax.
• Performs special studies and analysis for projects and generates reports as needed by PU Director, General Managers, and management team.
• Prepares complex / statistical reports and presentations.
• Assists in the development of and maintains rate models, budget models, debt models and revenue / expenditure models, including coordinating rate model analyses conducted by outside consultants to measure trends and past performance.
• Helps coordinate updates to the Utilities' system information in the Official Statements associated with issuing new revenue bonds by gathering data from Division Managers and external sources.
• Supports the Utilities Franchise program by managing collection of quarterly payments and assessing any applicable penalties.
• Gathers information from other departments and maintains data to perform analysis, such as maintaining percentage growth calculations on service connections.
• Manages the Installment Loan Program by calculating the interest rate, gathering other necessary data from other departments, and preparing the Board request.

Administrative Duties :

Work Hours : Monday Friday, 8 : 00 a.m. 5 : 00 p.m.

About You :

Minimum Qualifications : A Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Public or Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics or job-related field and two (2) years job-related experience OR - Six (6) years professional job-related experience can be substituted at management discretion for the required education - OR Related professional program / project management may substitute for the required education at management discretion.

Preferred Qualifications : Professional experience in governmental accounting, budgeting, and / or auditing preferred, as well as experience with GovMax system and Smartsheets.

Job Competencies : Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge of financial processes, business planning and budget processes. Excellent communication skills, ability to organize and present information; ability to use sound independent judgment; knowledge of research techniques and methods of data collection; ability to create and generate comprehensive reports, ability to collect and analyze data.

About Everything Else :

Pay : $50,523.20 - $67,932.80

This Posting is currently Open Until Filled