Pay Range: $75,314 - $86,611 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Friday, February 9, 2024

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.

The FWLab leads the integration of comprehensive planning, capital programming, budgeting, performance management and data analytics to help the City of Fort Worth in its mission to become the most livable and best-managed city in the country. A Sr. Budget Analyst job is available with the City of Fort Worth’s FWLab department. The position manages, reviews, monitors, analyzes and assists in the development of multiple, complex citywide operating and capital budgets to ensure compliance with financial policies, rules and regulations. Provides a wide variety of detailed analytical and research support for multiple departments, city staff and City Council to facilitate decision-making, and recommends comprehensive solutions for funding or operational concerns and issues to departments, city staff and senior management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Public Administration, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
• Four (4)years of experience in budget management, finance, research analysis or related field
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tool suite.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with capital planning and delivery
• Experience/coursework in municipal budgeting/finance
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of analytical tools (i.e. Tableau, Power BI, etc.)

The Senior Budget Analyst job responsibilities include:

• Participates and leads lower level analysts by example in the development, management and analysis of multiple citywide capital and operating budgets related to the largest, most complex departments whose budgets involve multiple complex funds and new projects that require complex budgetary approaches. Ensures compliance with designated financial policies, rules and regulations; identifies and analyzes potential revenue and cost saving opportunities; provides analysis and research in support of assigned department and divisions; prepares Mayor & Council Communications; and updates five-year capital plan.
• Works on five-year expense/expenditure and revenue forecasts, property tax analyses, and projections for sales tax.
• Conducts various analyses on departmental financial and operational data. The analyses may include cost/benefit, trending, and root cause analysis.
• Assists departments and senior management staff in ensuring compliance with annual operating, capital outlay, and capital improvement plans or adopted operating budgets; monitors annual bond sales, reviews project management reports, approves requests for appropriations and tracks expenditures and surplus funding sources to provide decision making tools; and analyzes and sets criteria for closing capital projects.
• Participates in assigned analytical support functions that have Citywide impact; prepares annual budget ordinances; participates in the creation of new budget processes, such as fund review process or new process for vehicle and equipment purchases; participates in capital planning and projection of multi-year project expenditures; generates operating and capital project expenditure update reports; and completes forecasts on operating budgets.
• Calculates and compiles tax reports; completes periodic forecasts including the publication of documentation to explain and support the projected forecast; conducts research and contacts agencies for data collections and benchmark analyses; and creates ad hoc reports and research as requested by City Council, senior management, other committees and citizens.
• Develops, coordinates and leads training workshops; provides instruction on budget processes and methods; facilitates implementation of new systems; and updates training materials; serves as a subject matter expert.
• Coordinates with Accounting Division and various departments to research unusual and unnatural balances in departments’ funds; analyzes the resolution for unusual balances; defines any remaining fund balances; and makes recommendations regarding use of balances.
• Acts as liaison for Budget and Research Division on various committees and commissions; and provides data, analyses, reporting and other information, as needed to facilitate accomplishment of group goals and/or support City positions or recommendations.
• Recommends comprehensive solutions to assigned departments, City staff and senior management regarding funding or operational concerns and issues.
• Drafts and originates Mayor and Council communications; reviews, revises and updates departmental Mayor and Council communications according to established deadlines; communicates with originating department to clarify concerns or issues and eliminate errors; and prepares appropriation and supplemental appropriation ordinances, as needed.
• Prepares financial forecasts; identifies possible budget overruns; coordinates appropriate solution with departments, CFO and City Manager’s Office.
• Participates in special projects including research of new programs and services, budget analysis and preparation, and feasibility analyses; prepares and presents reports.
• In the absence of a Budget Manager, may supervise staff, which may include prioritizing and assigning work; ensuring staff is trained; ensuring employees follow policies and procedures; and, maintaining a healthy and safe working environment.