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Position Title: Budget Analyst

Location: Hybrid - Gladys McCoy Building 619 NW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

End Date: 06/30/2027

Salary: $90,000 plus benefits

Overview:

The CDC Foundation is seeking a Budget Analyst to support the Multnomah County Health Department’s Public Health Division. This role will perform a range of analytical, technical, and advisory functions to support budget development, financial planning, and program evaluation.

Working under general direction, the Budget Analyst will collaborate with Budget and Finance Managers and staff to ensure that financial planning activities align with departmental and divisional goals and priorities. The position is responsible for analyzing budgets, analyzing budget processes, tools and resources, monitoring expenditures, forecasting financial trends, and evaluating program efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Generally, the Budget Analyst will help the Public Health Division to align budget monitoring for revenue and expenditures with the programs’ outputs and health outcomes. The Budget Analyst will develop a system to ensure Senior Program Managers fully understand and can manage budgets across multiple grant and fiscal years. This includes implementing strategic public health budgeting tools to identify financial concerns and improving the understanding of local, state and federal funding sources through performance-based budgeting.

Responsibilities:

Perform financial analysis of fiscal activities for the development and ongoing monitoring of the budget; participate in developing program definitions, goals and performance measures; coordinate strategic planning activities with departmental staff in conjunction with elected officials’ goals, priorities and policies.
Coordinate all aspects of budget development within a department and between the division and programs; meet with department senior managers and staff to compile and analyze documentation regarding revenue, spending levels or staffing requirements; participate in identifying programs’ current service levels.
Develop and maintain databases, spreadsheets and related management systems for budget development and administration; perform financial forecasting and prepare budget-related projections; perform cost control and containment analysis; monitor program delivery, expenditure and revenue reports
Conduct research related to departmental, divisional and program budget and finance matters; perform financial analysis and make recommendations; develop forms and systems; assist in identifying financial system problems.
Prepare and present complex reports and analyses; provide information and training on financial management, planning, budgets, expenditures and revenue forecasting.
Developing and preparing budget documents, justifications and reports.
Developing budgetary procedures, policies and instructions.
Analyzing and making recommendations on financial or management issues.
Gathering, analyzing, verifying and consolidating information and statistical data needed in execution and presentation.
Researching, planning, forecasting, compiling, and summarizing data concerning personnel salaries and expenses and line-item information needed for execution.
Reviewing historical financial data and trends to prepare and validate budget estimates for programs.
Identifying and resolving a variety of financial and/or budget-related policy issues, questions and problems related to an organization’s mission.
Entering relevant data from a variety of sources into forms, reports, and financial system.
Processing and analyzing financial data using IT systems.
Explaining and providing guidance to management and co-workers to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies and standards.
Making budgetary recommendations to management based on analysis and assessments of data, program assumptions, and realism of estimates.
Perform a wide variety of analytical duties connected with the review, analysis, and
recommendation of the agency's budget.
Project and analyze the potential effects of budgetary actions on program viability and the attainment of program objectives.
Assess and report on the amount and timing of allotments of funds to agency components and programs.
Analyze financial and budgetary relationships to develop recommendations for financial and/or budget actions.
Monitor budgets with different sources and types of funding such as direct annual and multiyear discretionary appropriations, permanent indefinite mandatory authority, and transfers from other agencies.
Identify and analyze trends in the receipt, allocation, obligation, and expenditure of funds to ensure the annual financial plan is met on a timely basis, and funds are available and used effectively to support program objectives.
Tasks related to budgets, finance, or similar as required.