Budget Analyst

Job Description

Budget Analyst | City of New York

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at the Campaign Finance Board, located at 100 Church Street in Lower Manhattan. The agency is a nonpartisan, independent city body dedicated to making local democracy more open, transparent, and equitable for New Yorkers by removing barriers to participation. This role is crucial for managing the agency’s financial health, particularly the matching funds program, ensuring fiscal accountability and supporting informed decisions that empower community members in local elections.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid Manhattan, NY
• Pay: $80001–$90000 yearly
• Team: Operations & Finance Division -> Budget & Operations Department
• Mission: Supports the development, monitoring, and reconciliation of the agency’s budget, including the matching funds program, to ensure fiscal accountability and informed decision-making for local democracy.
• Tech Stack: FMS3, Info Advantage, Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel, CHRMS, SQL, Power BI

What You’ll Actually Do
• Budget Development: Assist in preparing and submitting the CFB’s annual budget, including the critical matching funds program.
• Financial Reconciliation: Reconcile quarterly spending plans and various OMB year-to-year and plan-to-plan budgets (Adopted, November, January, Executive).
• Expenditure Analysis: Estimate budget expenditures and prepare analyses to contribute to the agency-wide surplus/needs assessment.
• Spending Oversight: Review and track programmatic and administrative spending, offering technical assistance and funding guidance to program staff.
• Approval & Tracking: Review Certificates of Funds (COFs), encumbrance requests, and Purchase Request Forms (PRFs) for funding and contract authority, while maintaining relevant trackers.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college with at least twelve-semester credits in accounting, auditing, business or public administration, computer science, economics, finance, statistics, or a closely related field.
• Experience: One year of satisfactory full-time experience in accounting, auditing, business or public administration, business analysis, computer science, economics, finance, fiscal or economic management or research, statistics, or a closely related field, including at least one year working in city government using FMS3 and Info Advantage reports. Alternatively, a four-year high school diploma and five years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Skills: Proficiency in FMS3 for procurement, budget, and contract inquiries; intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel for tracking and reporting; excellent verbal and written communication to distill complex information; strong organizational skills for independent task execution; and keen attention to detail in budget review and data management.
• Bonus: Experience managing budgets across multiple teams, reviewing new budget requests against original allocations, familiarity with OMB plan-to-plan processes, advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills, and knowledge of SQL or Power BI.