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OPERATING BUDGET DIRECTOR

This is fiscal management work directing all activities of the City's central operating budget agency through subordinate supervisors. The employee is responsible for the planning, implementation and review of City-wide policy and overall goals, objectives and priorities within the area of operating budget development and control. Significant to the work is the responsibility for implementing financial mandates set forth by the Director of Finance. Working with administrative, legislative and departmental officials to implement fiscal policies and testifying at City Council and before other boards and hearings, and providing information on the financial state of the City to media, legislators, government agents, and representatives of the financial and economic community are significant to the work. Work is performed under the direction of a Deputy Finance Director.

ALLOCATING FACTORS: (The following conditions must be met for a position to be approved for this class.)

• Only one position in the City's central finance agency will be allocated to this class.
• The position must direct all functions of the Operating Budget Division.

• Formulates and develops the City's operating budget goals, objectives and policies; plans, organizes, and directs the implementation of these budgetary goals, objectives, and priorities; directs the preparation, review and analysis of revenue estimates; establishes priorities and timetables for the formal preparation of the City's overall operating budget; confers with the Finance Director on the preparation and implementation of budgetary goals, objectives, and priorities; establishes priorities and budget; confers with the capital budget director to determine the impact of the City's capital budget on operating expenses; reviews budget requests and recommends inclusions, deletions and modifications; conducts hearings on budgets of city agencies; testifies in councilmanic and other hearings on budget requests and related matters.
• Plans, organizes, directs, coordinates and reviews the activities of the City's central budget agency; directs the activities of a budget analyst staff in the examination, evaluation, and control of the City's operating budget and various aspects of the capital budget; establishes, develops and implements agency priorities, procedures and policies; reviews staff recommendations pertaining to transfer of funds and additional appropriations; reviews all personnel transactions and fund transfer requests; reviews reports and recommendations on major financial policy issues and problems; reviews results of special or recurring studies pertaining to the fiscal and related operations of City agencies; provides cost analyses of benefits and other contract awards for labor negotiation purposes.
• Discusses the implementation of budgetary policy with departmental officials; explains and discusses budgetary policy changes; advises City administrators and City Council officials on caucus modifications; represents department at meetings with the media, fiscal and economic agency representatives, and state and federal legislators.
• Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• the principles of public finance and accounting as applied to the preparation and control of operating budgets.
• the principles and practices of budget administration and their application to budgetary objectives and policies.
• economic and econometric principles as applied to the use of econometric models for forecasting revenues and expenditures.
• administrative and managerial practices, policies, and procedures as applied to budget, grant administration, and analyses.
• organizational, management and systems theory as applied to budget administration and analysis.
• supervisory practices and techniques.
• the application of computing equipment and software to the maintenance of financial records.

SKILL IN:

• evaluating the effectiveness of budgetary programs and policies.
• evaluating budget agency activities and functions and implementing changes to provide for more effective and efficient operations.

ABILITY TO:

• enlist the cooperation of officials to implement policy and procedural changes.
• present ideas effectively, both orally and in writing.
• exercise judgment and discretion in applying and interpreting policies and procedures consistent with overall policy and objectives.
• establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, departmental officials, and the public.
• plan, organize, direct and coordinate the activities of a staff of budget analysts in the evaluation and control of operating budgets.
• analyze and comprehend organizational and procedural problems and budgetary recommendations based on such trends.
• prepare and interpret a variety of financial reports and statements.
• analyze and resolve complex budgetary problems and make sound recommendations consistent with budgetary principles and departmental policies.

EDUCATION

• Completion of a bachelor's degree program at an accredited college or university with major course work in business administration, public administration, economics, finance, accounting or urban studies.

  AND
  GENERAL EXPERIENCE
  

• Seven (7) years of budget experience in a government budget agency reviewing and analyzing budget requests.

  AND
  SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE
  

• Two (2) years of experience in a supervisory capacity over a group of budget analysts within a central operating budget agency.

Or any equivalent combination of experience determined to be acceptable by the Personnel Department that has included the specific experience described above.

PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required of a position in this class.

PAY RANGE: EP30
Class Established: 3/1982

Spec. Revision:
  CSC - 7/1996 ; Ad Board - 11/1996

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