Sr. Budget Analyst

The City of Bellevue is seeking to fill a Senior Budget Analyst position within the Department Business Support Section of the Finance & Asset Management Department (FAM). The Senior Budget Analyst is responsible for providing advanced financial analysis, biennial budget development support, monthly forecasting, financial performance reporting, and strategic guidance to line-of-business managers across the department’s financial programs. This role serves as a key partner in strengthening fiscal planning, monitoring departmental financial health, and improving business processes for functions such as budgeting, revenue oversight, departmental financial controls, and citywide financial support activities.

The analyst will also support the department’s monthly business reviews, providing financial commentary, trend analysis, and performance indicators that assist managers and leadership in making timely operational decisions.

As the perfect candidate you will have strong customer service values, have a passion for process improvement, be comfortable with ambiguity and embrace change and diversity.   At the same time, you are detailed-oriented and yet able to understand and communicate the big picture. You possess the expertise to handle the nuanced financial planning and analysis required for diverse programs, ensuring that each section’s unique needs are met.   You provide independent financial analysis, demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and are a team player that works with others to solve problems. You should have advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and be able to interface with a variety of software applications to obtain data.

• Assist in the department’s planning, coordination, and administration of the City’s biennial budget process; validate/edit data within budget system to ensure financials align with business needs; ensure accuracy of personnel costs, M&O budget and allocation of costs to various FAM division budgets; create crosswalks and explanation of budget variances.  
• Assist fiscal manager and management team with financial analyses in preparation for budget process.  
• Prepare monthly monitoring for revenue and expenditures on various funds. Work with the management team to analyze and interpret projections, resolve any issues, evaluate results and recommend changes to processes and models.
• Develop tools to support financial analysis, write new queries/reports from the asset management database and other resources.
• Maintain financial data and various reports on department fiscal SharePoint site.
• Support sections who manage leases and receive rent revenue. 
• Establish collaborative and cooperative relationships with departments to solve problems and assist with questions.
• Actively participate in the department’s continuous improvement and strategic plan initiatives. 
• Maintain a positive outlook and growth mindset in one’s own development and work product.
• Other analyses and projects as required.

Supervision Received & Exercised:

• Work under the general supervision of the department’s Fiscal Manager. 
• No formal supervisory responsibilities. 
• May act as lead of cross-departmental projects and work products or teams. 

The Ideal Candidate:
The perfect candidate will be detailed-oriented yet be able to understand and communicate the big picture. The candidate will provide independent financial analysis, demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and be a team player that works with others to solve problems. The candidate will demonstrate strong process documentation and time management skills, have good judgement, and will be proficient in Microsoft Excel. The candidate will be able to interface with a variety of software applications to obtain data.

Education, Experience and Other Requirements:

• To qualify for the senior level position an applicant must have five or more years of professional related experience in budgeting or accounting, preferably in the public sector, or related field and have graduated from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or Public Administration, Data Management or related field.
• Any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Advanced skill level using Microsoft Excel preferably with experience in creating, maintaining, balancing, and reconciling complex spreadsheets.  

• Staying current and strong with technical skills in common tools, including but not limited to Microsoft O365 including Teams, SharePoint, PowerBI, Excel, Visio, Word, PowerAutomate, Forms.

• Demonstrated experience in preparing, coordinating, and tracking annual budget development in a complex environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the organization and functions of the City government.
• Advanced knowledge of budget and finance, including demonstrated experience performing financial analysis and developing management reports.
• Experience with relational databases and financial modeling, or with systems administration.
• Possess a focus on service, building and delivering solutions that meet customer expectations and organizational needs.
• Effectively communicate; able to guide and advise on process, strategy and policy.
• Value listening, seeking diverse perspectives, and engaging others to challenge assumptions. 
• Ability to be resourceful and orchestrate multiple activities simultaneously to accomplish goals.
• Ability to optimize work processes: Identify and create processes necessary to get work done; apply continual improvement practices to create efficient workflow. 
• Ability to research, analyze, and evaluate proposed programs and expenditures.
• Ability to work with large amounts of data, interpret financial records, detect errors, and prepare financial reports.
• Ability to work with financial modeling tools and provide technical assistance to management and less experienced employees.
• Expertise with databases and spreadsheet programs; and ability to become an expertise in use of City’s central financial information system.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees.

Physical Demands

The working conditions and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Work involves walking, talking, hearing, using hands to handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms. 
• Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee may be required to push, pull, lift, and/or carry up to 10 pounds.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.