Budget Analyst

Job Description

Budget Analyst | NYC Campaign Finance Board

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at the NYC Campaign Finance Board, located in Lower Manhattan. The Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency dedicated to making local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable by empowering New Yorkers to participate in elections. This role is crucial for managing the agency’s finances, including its matching funds program, ensuring transparent and accountable use of public resources to support democratic processes. The Budget Analyst provides essential fiscal analysis and forecasting that directly impacts the agency’s operational efficiency and mission fulfillment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid Manhattan, NY

• Team: Budget & Operations Department, within the Operations & Finance Division
• Mission: Develop, monitor, and reconcile the agency budget, including matching funds, and provide fiscal analysis for procurement and personnel actions.
• Tech Stack: FMS3, Info Advantage, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel, CHRMS

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budget Development: Assist in preparing and submitting the CFB’s annual budget, encompassing the critical matching funds program.
• Financial Reconciliation: Reconcile quarterly spending plans and various OMB budget iterations (Adopted, November, January, Executive) to ensure accuracy.
• Spending Analysis: Estimate expenditures, perform agency-wide surplus/needs analysis, and track programmatic and administrative spending.
• Financial Tracking: Maintain Personal Services (PS) and encumbrance trackers, ensuring accurate records of personnel, procurement, and contract spending.
• Reporting & Approvals: Generate FMS3/Info Advantage reports, create ad hoc analyses, and approve FMS Level 3 vouchers after reviewing invoices.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s degree in accounting, auditing, business or public administration, computer science, economics, finance, or a closely related field, supplemented by at least twelve semester credits in one of these areas.
• Experience: One year of full-time experience in financial, administrative, or related fields, including at least one year working in city government with FMS3 and Info Advantage reports.
• Skills: Proficiency in FMS3 for procurement, budget, and contract inquiries; intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel for tracking and reporting; strong verbal and written communication; keen attention to detail; and robust organizational skills.
• Bonus: Experience managing budgets across multiple teams, reviewing new budget requests against original plans, familiarity with OMB plan-to-plan processes, advanced Microsoft Office applications, and knowledge of SQL or Power BI.