Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate degree in accounting, business/public administration, or finance from an accredited college or university and five (5) years of fiscal analysis job-related

experience, which includes one (1) year in a lead worker, team leader, or supervisory role; or

• Two (2) years of experience at the lower-level Budget Analyst 3 (FIP012) or equivalent position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working for Georgia State Agency Budget Office.
• Three years managing a team or supervising employees.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the use of it to identify budget variances and complete financial analysis.
• Experience in TeamWorks Peoplesoft Financials and Oracle Planning and Budget Cloud Service (PBCS).
• One or more years’ experience in expenditure analysis and forecasting utilizing Excel and reporting databases to analyze financial data.
• Experience coordinating budget activities between various departments, programs, or external customers as appropriate.
• Strong proficiency in using Excel to include pivot tables, filtering, formulas, ability to identify budget variances.
• Experience in identifying and explaining expenditure trends and program projections.
• Experience with Tableau is advantageous but not required.

Job Description:

Supervises, guides, and/or instructs the work assignments of subordinate staff. Oversees, develops, prepares, analyzes, and/or revises large or complex budgets and supporting schedules for assigned organizations or program areas. Performs review and analysis of budget program and policy issues, analyzes financial trends or proposed legislation, and recommends appropriate courses of action to management.

Essential Duties and responsibilities:

• Supervises and plans work of assigned staff.
• Analyzes agency budgeting and accounting reports/requests to maintain expenditure controls
• Analyzes or develops policy and budget-related initiatives; makes recommendations based on analysis.
• Assesses financial data to determine the resources required to implement a program, or to analyze trends.
• Examines budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.
• Prepares comprehensive analytical reports to present to leadership.
• Requests budgetary codes, track physical inventory or record/audit expenses, or document use of funds and adherence to budget allocations.
• Reviews, interprets, and writes policies and procedures associated with budget and other financial matters.
• Serves as budget expert for agency or multiple programs and develop reports for agency, OPB or other government entities.
• Supervises the budget preparation, auditing, records management, and related operations.
• Develops, procedures and forms utilized in the agency's improvement budget process.

Comments:

Please be advised, Two Supervisor positions will be filled from this one posting. These positions are assigned to the Budget Services Department located at the State Offices South at Tift College in the City of Forsyth, GA (Monroe County).  Due to the high volume of applications, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Open to internal and external applicants.

Contact Info:

Antoria Ware

478-733-1449

Antoria.pitts@gdc.ga.gov