Analyst II - Sr. Budget Analyst

City of Wilmington, NC; Wilmington (NC); Ibrido; USD 80.000 - 110.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Excellent retirement benefits and 401k

Paid sick and vacation leave + 13 paid

Paid holidays + parental leave

Flex schedule and telework options

Descrizione del lavoro

The City of Wilmington, NC seeks a Sr. Budget Analyst to transform complex financial data into actionable insights guiding community priorities. This role partners with City departments and leadership to influence investments and ensure resources align with strategic goals.

Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, performance measurement, and advisory support for city-wide operations. Strong Excel skills, data analysis, and effective communication are essential.

Competenze

• Bachelor's Degree or higher and at least three years of relevant government budget experience.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Valid driver's license.

Mansioni

• Facilitate city-wide budget development and monitoring processes.
• Analyze budgets, revenues, expenditures, and policy issues to support recommendations.
• Prepare operating and capital budgets, budget in brief, and supporting materials.
• Develop financial models and forecast analyses for city programs and departments.
• Collaborate with departments on budget requests, justifications, and strategic plans.
• Monitor budget performance and provide insights to improve efficiency and resource allocation.

Conoscenze

Budget analysis

Financial planning

Data analysis

Forecasting

Presentation & communication

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or higher

Strumenti

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Descrizione del lavoro

The City of Wilmington is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Position Description

One City. One team. One mission.

Do you like to help guide financial decisions that move a community forward?

We are looking for a Sr. Budget Analyst to help shape the financial future of our City by turning complex financial data into meaningful insights that drive decisions, strengthen services, and support community priorities. This is more than a budgeting role—it's an opportunity to partner with City departments and leadership, influence strategic investments, and ensure public resources are working where they matter most.

This position provides complex budget, management, financial, and strategic planning analysis, with responsibilities to include consulting, planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluating city-wide governmental operations. Work includes analyzing, reviewing and making professional recommendations for the allocation and distribution of revenues and expenditures for city operations; linking the needs of the City with the desired strategic direction; providing budgetary and operational oversight throughout the year; consulting with departments on organizational resource allocation; evaluating current operations and making recommendations for improvements in areas related to operations, management, and budget; providing direction in financial and statistical analysis; performing complex analysis of goals, objectives, and needs of the general operating and political environment; participating in business planning; developing and monitoring performance measures; and facilitating city-wide meetings.

Typical Tasks

Facilitates the annual city-wide budget development and monitoring process to include but not limited to:

• Conducts data analysis and research on budget, performance, and policy issues to support financial and policy recommendations.
• Analyzes and reviews requests for merit in relationship to current fiscal and political realities.
• Provides recommendations to the City Manager’s Office on the validity of departmental requests.
• Prepares the annual recommended operating and capital budgets to include publication, presentation, budget in brief and other materials.
• Develops solutions or options for proceeding.
• Researches, gathers and assembles disparate information from a variety of sources into usable formats (manuals, guidelines, process report, and/or research white papers etc.)
• Gathers, analysis and/or reviews data for trends affecting financial, programmatic and personnel needs.
• Synthesizes large sets of data and determines high level key messages and gaps.
• Assists management in program design, development and implementation; conducts program evaluations.
• Analyzes service delivery identifying solutions to improve resource allocation
• Develops financial models such as expenditure and revenue projections as well as compensation and benefit increase scenarios and summaries data for multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborates with Departments on business plan development, budget request development and justifications, city-wide strategic plan linkage by supporting business case development.
• Assists Departments in their improvement efforts by providing analytical support in the areas of finance, processes, and communications.
• Facilitates, consults and/or participates in initiatives that involve changing current business practices.
• Offers critical feedback to ensure viability of proposed initiatives.
• Approves and posts budget revision requests.
• Develops and recommends cost effective and efficient budgets.
• Monitors and analyzes revenues and expenditures for alignment with adopted operating budgets.
• Develops, presents and defends findings and recommendations to stakeholder groups and City decision-makers.
• Monitors assigned department's annual expenditures and budget performance balancing departments need with city-wide needs.
• Assists departments in reviewing programs/services for process changes and provides recommendations for potential cost cutting measures.

Assists with the multi-year strategic planning process:

• Links department requests with the overall strategic direction of the city.
• Assists in the implementation and application of the city's strategic plan and organizational performance measurement and monitors service level data, including output, effectiveness, efficiency, and outcome trends.

Specific Responsibilities by specialized assignment area:

• Position Control/Salary Position Projections:
  • Provides direct support to the Budget Team in the following areas: position control management, compensation modeling, budget scenario development, salary interfaces, and year-end balance analyses, in close coordination with Human Resources, based on annual position movements and compensation rollout plans, and in accordance with the City’s adopted financial policies and procedures and recognized financial (accounting and budgeting) standards.
• Financial Trends and Forecasting:
  • Tracks revenues over time to determine the direction of the trends; generates models and recommendations for actions required for budgeting and compliance; identifies root causes for changes identified; generates forecast reports for Council and budget publication; designs, develops, and maintains ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, and provides support for the annual indirect cost development, and other data solutions.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree or higher and at least three years of relevant experience in government budget development and administration.
• Intermediate to advanced experience using Microsoft applications including Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook.
• Valid driver’s license

Ideal candidates should possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Problem solving skills:
  • Ability to evaluate budgetary requests from different perspectives to determine the benefits as well as the drawbacks if they move forward.
  • Ability to assess not only spending trends but resource allocations across city functions and disciplines.
  • Ability to develop and recommend cost effective and efficient city services to include recommendations for both process changes and resource allocation.
• Technical skills:
  • Ability to collect and analyze data using intermediate to advanced Excel techniques.
  • Ability to create visuals that show data findings.
  • Ability to develop manuals, research papers and present findings to multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to facilitate groups to gather input.
  • Ability to communicate written and orally in many styles (persuasive, narrative, expository and descriptive) for multiple audiences.
  • Ability to complete mathematical tasks required to gather historical data, produce a data model set, forecasting models and perform directional analysis.

Supplemental Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Exerting up to 10 lbs. occasionally or negligible weights frequently; sitting most of the time.

WORKING CONDITIONS: This position generally requires work in an indoor office setting.

Our Core Values

INCLUSION | COLLABORATION | CREATIVITY | ACCOUNTABILITY

Our Mission Statement:

Through forward-thinking policies and responsible stewardship, we are creating a better city every day with excellent core services and quality of life for all.

What We Offer

The City of Wilmington believes that employees are one of our most important resources. We offer an excellent salary and competitive benefits package to serve the needs of our employees and their families. Our benefits package includes:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance + many other insurance options
• Excellent retirement benefits, including a city provided 4.5% contribution each pay period into a 401(k) account and automatic enrollment into the North Carolina Local Government Employees’ Retirement System
• Employer-paid health & wellness clinic
• Free on-site city gym access
• Paid sick and vacation leave + 13 paid holidays per year
• 6-weeks paid parental leave
• Paid volunteer & blood donation leave to give back to our community
• Flex schedule and telework availability, depending on your position
• Professional development trainings & leadership initiatives
• Tuition assistance benefits

Applicant Status Updates:

After the closing date for this position, applications will be screened by Human Resources. Applicants who meet the minimum and/or preferred qualifications will be referred over to the hiring department. All updates regarding an application can be viewed through your applicant portal.

Health Benefits are offered to employees working at least 30 hours per week.

Health Insurance

The City offers two options for health coverage: a standard PPO plan and a High Deductible Health Plan with an associated Health Savings Account. Coverage becomes effective the first day of the month following hire for employees and their eligible dependents. Both you and the City contribute to the overall cost of coverage.

Dental Insurance

Coverage becomes effective the first day of the month following hire. Employees, their spouse and dependent children are eligible for coverage.

Life Insurance

The city pays to provide coverage valued at one times your annual salary. Supplemental insurance is available for employees to purchase. Optional coverage for dependents is also available for purchase.

Retirement

• NC Local Government Retirement System - All benefits eligible employees make a mandatory 6% contribution every pay period.
• Deferred Compensation – The city contributes an amount equal to 4.5% of the annual salary to a 401(k) plan regardless of employee contribution. Employees may choose to contribute additional money to the 401(k) or 457 deferred compensation plans, without a match from the City, within the IRS guidelines.

Paid Leave (offered to employees working at least 1,000 hours annually*):

• Sick Leave - 12 days accrued each year
• Annual Leave - Accrual based on years of service and classification. Employees can earn from 10 to 24 days each year.
• Holidays - 13 paid holidays annually
• Paid Parental Leave - Six weeks of paid leave for the birth, adoption or placement of a child (must run concurrently with FMLA).
• Part-Time Employees will earn paid leave benefits on a pro-rated basis.

Miscellaneous

• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Cancer & Critical Illness
• Accident Insurance
• Whole Life Insurance
• Credit Union membership
• Access to City Fitness Center

Note: The City of Wilmington is on a bi-weekly pay cycle. New employees should expect to receive their first paycheck approximately 4 weeks after their start date.

This is intended to be a brief overview of the benefits offered. Please visit our website at https://www.wilmingtonnc.gov/Government/Departments-Divisions/Human-Resources/Benefits for more information.