Job Description

** What You’ll Be Doing**

Under the general direction of the Budget Director, the Principal Budget Analyst plans, organizes, leads, and conducts complex, sensitive, and detailed budget, fiscal, legislative, contract and administrative policy analysis. This position will also provide complex analytical support to operations and programs. The Principal Budget Analyst is one of three analysts on the Budget Team. Budget Analysts are expected to perform at a high-level and exercise excellent independent judgment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops and coordinates HSH’s annual budget process and strategies to maximize federal land state funding sources.
• Manages the department’s budget production schedule; convenes division budget meetings to develop budget recommendations; compiles and consolidates annual budget recommendations and mid-cycle budget changes; oversees department position control and reconciliation; and manages budget expenditure and revenue projections, reporting, and budgetary controls.
• Analyzes and negotiates budget and/or policy proposals within the department and with the Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, and other agencies; assists management in the budget development process, monitoring of the budget, budget reporting, and interpretation of budget-related documents.
• Plans and performs economic and/or financial analyses including forecasting, revenue and/or expense projections, analysis of capital requirements, evaluation of funding alternatives, rate analysis, modeling, and cost/benefit analysis; assesses the quality of existing forecasting models and develops recommendations to simplify the approaches used and/or improve accuracy; prepares reports with financial/policy recommendations and appropriate supporting documentation.
• Collaborates with other City departments and community providers on budget and fiscal policy affecting homeless services; coordinates activities relating to the application for and management of grants, revenues, and subventions from private, State, and Federal sources.
• Analyzes existing and proposed administrative policies and procedures as well as organizational problems as they pertain to the department’s financial forecast and budget development; conducts difficult and detailed studies; identifies administrative problems, determines methods of analysis, and identifies trends; prepares and presents reports with policy recommendations; and may develop and implement new systems, procedures, and documentation protocols.
• Develops, implements, and manages standard operating procedures and processes for budget and /or fiscal operations to assist in budget development, budget management, and communication with stakeholders about budget and financial issues.
• Performs related duties as required.

Qualifications

Possession of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and 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:

• Possession of a master's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in Finance, Economics, Public or Business Administration, Public Policy, Social Sciences or a closely related field.
• Microsoft Excel advanced knowledge (pivot tables, filters, formulas, functions, formatting).
• Experience with governmental accounting, governmental budgeting and the City’s accounting policies and procedures highly preferred.
• Ability to visualize data and communicate quantitative information clearly for internal and external stakeholders, including the general public.
• Knowledge of Federal and State Grants.
• Knowledge of City Financial Systems such as Oracle PeopleSoft, FSP, BPMS and Sherpa.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with a large diverse workforce of people with different culture, backgrounds, and opinions.

Additional Information

Additional Information Regarding Employment with the City and County of San Francisco:

• Information About the Hiring Process
• Conviction History
• Employee Benefits Overview
• Equal Employment Opportunity
• Disaster Service Worker
• ADA Accommodation
• Veterans Preference
• Right to Work
• Copies of Application Documents
• Diversity Statement

HOW TO APPLY
Applications for City and County of San Francisco jobs are only accepted through an online process.

Visit https://careers.sf.gov/ and begin the application process. Select the “Apply Now” button and follow instructions on the screen

Applicants may be contacted by email about this recruitment and, therefore, it is their responsibility to ensure that their registered email address is accurate and kept up-to-date. Also, applicants must ensure that email from CCSF is not blocked on their computer by a spam filter. To prevent blocking, applicants should set up their email to accept CCSF mail from the following addresses (@sfgov.org, @sfdpw.org, @sfport.com, @flysfo.com, @sfwater.org, @sfdph.org, @asianart.org, @sfmta.com, @sfpl.org, @dcyf.org, @first5sf.org, @famsf.org, @ccsf.edu, @smartalerts.info, and @smartrecruiters.com).

Applicants will receive a confirmation email 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.

Analyst Information: If you have any questions regarding this recruitment or application process, please contact the analyst Mahzer Rizalado at mahzer.rizalado@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.

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.