[Hiring] Senior Budget and Management Services Analyst @City of Raleigh North Carolina

Role Description

The City of Raleigh's Budget and Management Services department is seeking an experienced Senior Budget and Management Services Analyst. This role acts as a trusted advisor who works across the organization to solve complex challenges through analysis, consensus building, and sound financial management. Analysts manage a portfolio of operating, capital, and enterprise funds while partnering with departments, senior leadership, and other stakeholders on issues that have meaningful financial, operational, and policy implications.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Independently identify needs and perform analyses to demonstrate policy and budgeting options for organizational decision-making.
• Lead strategic consultation with assigned departments to identify, assess, and prioritize complex operational and capital funding needs.
• Oversee the development, review, and balancing of departmental budget submissions, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, strategic plans, performance measures, and financial policies.
• Consult with assigned departments, review expense and revenue projections, monitor departmental budgets, and identify operational and mid-year needs.
• Prepare financial forecasts, scenario models, impact analyses, and feasibility assessments for current and potential City projects, programs, and priorities.
• Design and deliver training and capacity-building initiatives.
• Lead complex, cross-departmental projects and citywide studies, process improvement efforts, and strategic initiatives that may involve significant financial, operational, or policy implications.
• Prepare communications, presentations, talking points, budget memoranda, and other high-level materials to help senior leadership understand and make decisions about policy and financial options.
• Assist assigned departments in crafting clear, concise agenda materials for City Council and other leadership audiences.
• Review and approve budget amendments and transfers with a focus on fiscal sustainability, operational efficiency, and compliance with City policies.
• Prepare multi-year financial impact analyses for compensation and staffing changes and advise senior leadership and Human Resources on budgetary implications.
• Support public understanding of the City's budget through accessible communication materials, engagement strategies, and feedback mechanisms that promote transparency and informed participation.
• Perform related work as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 3 to 5 years' experience in financial, budgeting, public sector, or a related field; OR any equivalent combination of training and/or experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may be substituted.

Requirements

• Knowledge of local government financial and management concepts.
• Applicable laws, codes, regulations, standards, and City financial policies.
• Rate modeling, multi-year budget projections, personnel cost projections, and financial forecasting.
• Budgeting and financial software used to support business plans, strategic plans, and decision-making.
• Best practices, trends, and emerging technologies in local government management.
• Principles and techniques of effective facilitation, presentations, stakeholder engagement, and consensus building.

Skills In

• Problem-solving, analytical thinking, and critical thinking.
• Planning, initiating, and managing multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Performing data analysis and translating financial information into actionable recommendations.
• Developing operating and capital budget plans, financial forecasts, and multi-year projections.
• Preparing clear communications, presentations, reports, agenda materials, and talking points for varied audiences.
• Working collaboratively across organizational levels and functions to advance projects and initiatives.
• Exercising political acumen, tact, and diplomacy.
• Providing space for an array of stakeholders to contribute to consensus on critical decisions that impact the community.
• Providing direction and developing staff to achieve shared organizational goals.
• Maintaining close attention to detail and delivering a high-quality work product.

Ability To

• Work independently and as part of a team in a fast-changing environment.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Coordinate deadlines, prioritize competing demands, and meet high-stakes deadlines.
• Manage complex, cross-departmental projects and monitor project schedules, status, and compliance.
• Learn new systems and adapt to evolving technologies, processes, and organizational needs.
• Use sound judgment when working with sensitive financial, operational, and policy information.

ADA and Other Requirements

• Work Environment and Physical Effort: Sedentary; exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally.
• Work Environment: Typically performed in an office or similar indoor environment.
• Work Exposures: This position does not require frequent environmental exposures.