Senior Budget Analyst – Grants & Forecasting Lead

Taleo; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 39,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Dental and Vision

Paid time off

11 paid holidays per year

Job summary

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to oversee complex grant budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. This role requires strong knowledge of government budgeting, public finance, and data-driven analysis to support grant management operations in Columbus.

You will balance line items, generate reports, and collaborate across teams to ensure accurate budgeting for multiple programs while maintaining compliance with state policies and

Qualifications

• 4 yrs. experience in budgeting including fiscal management & statistical analysis.
• Undergraduate core program in accounting/public finance/public administration or business administration with 24 mos. exp.
• Graduate core program in accounting/public finance/public administration or business administration with 12 mos. exp.
• Or 12 mos. exp. as Budget Analyst, 63261.
• Or equivalent of Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment noted above.

Responsibilities

• Requires thorough knowledge of governmental budgeting, public finance, public or business administration, quantitative/statistical analysis and forecasting and skill in use of applicable software applications.
• Evaluates budgetary operations to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the Office of Grants Management.
• Balances allocation line items monthly back to OAKS cash for all awarded Grants and assists in retrieval of requested standardized historical reports.
• Writes periodic financial reports, status updates and position/option papers related to analysis.
• Acts as point of contact for agency for all awarded Grants budget issues, to include Travel and Expense (T&E) module.
• Designs and maintains microcomputer generated spreadsheets.
• Monitors to formulate expenditure/cost projections and to prevent deficits.
• Completes cost benefits analysis relative to goals of programs.
• Researches and analyzes funding information to formulate annual and biannual operating budgets for assigned line items, to include statistical analysis, trend analysis, monitoring and adjusting fund distribution and allocations for all programs.
• Programs line items to include revenue streams, projects payroll and revenues and monitors for potential deficits throughout the year.
• Perform budgetary transactions for the grants section.
• Serves as backup support for Human Capital Management (HCM) position management duties.
• Designs and maintains microcomputer generated spreadsheets for the purposes of managing the Overtime Grant.
• Manages and reviews the Overtime Grant mailbox to sort, organize, save emails and associate forms to the appropriate Task Force (TF) server subfolders for processing for reimbursement of Task Force Officers (TFO) overtime according to each TF agreements, memorandum of understanding and award documents.
• Prepares proper invoice(s) for reimbursement sending to the applicable TF contact, post reimbursement data and identify revenue upon receipt.
• Follow-up with TF for outstanding revenue and backup for the FBI TF Invoice Processing Platform.
• Manages other assigned Grants

Skills

Budgeting

Accounting

Grants Administration

Mathematical Ability

Operations

Education

Undergraduate core program in accounting/public finance/public administration/business administration

Graduate core program in accounting/public finance/public administration/business administration

Job description

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to oversee complex grant budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. This role requires strong knowledge of government budgeting, public finance, and data-driven analysis to support grant management operations in Columbus.

You will balance line items, generate reports, and collaborate across teams to ensure accurate budgeting for multiple programs while maintaining compliance with state policies and