Job Description

_ About the Job:_

The 1824 Principal Finance Analyst will serve as the Financial Lead for the Budget & Planning team, playing a key role in the centralized coordination of fiscal operations in the Administrative Services department. The incumbent will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to measure, monitor, analyze, and develop an annual budget of over $600 million with multiple funding sources including citywide work order allocation models, fee and special tax revenue, public financing, public and private grants, and the City’s general fund. In addition, the chosen candidate will work closely with the Principal Planning Analyst to create unit work plans and guide process, system, and model improvements.

_ About the Daily Work:_

• Conduct routine monitoring of finances, create and refine processes for financial tracking and communication, and catalogue financial project needs.
• Develop, analyze, and review complex models and databases to provide summary data, dashboards, reports, and projections on trends.
• Manage routine reporting to the Controller’s Office and Mayor’s Budget Office, distributing work to the analytical team in order to meet deadlines, create unit resiliency, and guide analyst career development.
• Solve emerging issues by coordinating with analysts, program, accounting, and human resources staff. Raise complex and sensitive issues to Budget & Planning Manager, Chief Financial Officer, and program directors while making recommendations on how to move forward.
• Supervise a team of analysts and oversee a standard training regimen, including financial reporting, labor modeling, and other foundational skillsets.
• Manage financial, human resources, and budget system licensing, training, and data use. Respond to needs for custom data views.
• Prioritize and recommend financial projects based on anticipated returns.
• Conduct and oversee qualitative analyses, including literature reviews, survey design and administration, and focus groups and key informant interviews.
• Analyze and interpret existing, newly enacted, and proposed local, state, and federal legislation and regulations for financial impacts.
• Communicate findings from research and analysis through concise reports and effective multi-media presentations to diverse audiences.
• Work on special projects or other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

_ Education_ : Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university. AND

_ Experience_ : Five (5) years full-time equivalent experience performing professional-level analytical work. Qualifying professional-level analytical work includes analysis, development, administration, and reporting in major programs and functions of an organization in the areas of budgets, contracts, grants, policy, or other functional areas related to the duties of positions in the 182X Class series.

_ Substitution_ : Possession of a graduate degree (Master's degree or higher) from an accredited college or university with major coursework in specialized subject matter areas such as public or business administration, management, business law, contract law, public policy, urban studies, economics, statistical analysis, finance, accounting or other fields of study closely related to the essential functions of positions in the Class series may be substituted for one (1) year of required experience.

Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to a maximum of 2 years). Thirty (30) semester units or forty-five (45) quarter units equal one year.

_ Desirable Qualifications:_

• Exceptional critical thinker, investigator, project manager, and communicator with demonstrated history of meeting deadlines.
• Detail-oriented analyst with intermediate to advanced skills in Excel and PowerBI or other data management and visualization tools.
• Dedicated supervisor and leader, enthusiastic about building a supportive environment for professional growth.
• Emerging expert in the City’s financial practices, rules, and systems.
• Big-picture thinker interested in automation and process improvement.
• Diplomat with a good sense of humor.

Additional Information

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco: [These links should be included in all Job Ads]

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Seniority Credit in Promotional Exams [required for Combined, Promotive, Entrance (CPE) Exams only]
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

Applicants will receive a confirmation email from notification@careers.sf.gov that their online application has been received in response to every announcement for which they file. Applicants should retain this confirmation email for their records. Failure to receive this email means that the online application was not submitted or received.

If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or the hiring process, please contact Jason Wong @ jason.wong3@sfgov.org. If you have any questions about the position, please reach out to Trisha McMahon at trisha.mcmahon@sfgov.org.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.