Classified Job Descriptions - Sweetwater UHSD

Basic Functions:

Under the direction of the Director of Fiscal Services, perform specialized and complex professional work in the development, control and analysis of assigned District grant budgets; generate a variety of budgetary and statistical reports; serve as budget liaison with various levels of District staff regarding assigned budgets; determine and monitor operating program staffing requirements.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

The Budget Analyst classification serves as a team leader and performs specialized and complex professional work in the development, control and analysis of assigned District grant budgets. The Senior Budget Analyst classification serves as a team leader and directs workflow as assigned by the Director.

Essential Duties:

• Perform specialized and complex professional work in the development, control and analysis of assigned District grant budgets; assure compliance with guidelines, rules, regulations and procedures affecting budgetary actions.
• Meet with program managers to formulate initial budget; assure compliance to grant criteria; monitor budget for level of expenditures and supplemental increases or decreases.
• Determine and monitor operating program staffing requirements; receive personnel action requests from sites and departments; conduct research to assure staffing and budget allocations are within budgetary limits; travel to various sites to discuss allocation and expenditure levels with Principals and staff.
• Generate a variety of budgetary and statistical reports, projections, estimates, studies and related information as requested; participate in the research, collection and compilation of data for financial and statistical reports, projections, estimates and studies; prepare and maintain a variety of records and reports; submit to appropriate administrator and school locations as required.
• Operate a variety of standard office equipment including a copier, telephone, calculator and computer; utilize assigned software programs to generate reports and various documents.
• Communicate with the Department of Education, the County Office of Education, local school districts, and granting agencies to exchange information, resolve issues or concerns and coordinate activities.

Other Duties:

• Assist in the preparation of interim financial reports, the annual District budget, revenue limit computations and the preparation of Board financial reports.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Any combination equivalent to: bachelor’s degree in accounting, business administration or related field and two years of increasingly responsible fiscal experience with concentration in budgeting.

Application Materials Required:

Current Resume

Three (3) letters of recommendation and/or three (3) Classified Reference forms dated within the last two years; all letters must be dated.

Note: All required certifications listed on the job posting must be uploaded to the application; no exceptions.