Deputy Budget Director

Salary: $87,594 - $104,702

Position Grade: 17M

Department: Budget Division

Job Type: Full-Time Permanent

Examination Number: EX1233

Location: St. Louis, MO

This is advanced responsible administrative work assisting the Budget Director in various activities within the Budget Division. Responsibilities include assisting with capital projects, financial planning, and performance measurement; direct responsibility with the preparation of the City's annual operating budget; and acting as Budget Director in the Director's absence.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the work unit’s operations/programs to establish operational priorities, coordinate these operations with other functions within the agency, and ensure program objectives and standards are established, attained and congruent with overall goals.

• Determines and requests/submits staff, material and equipment needs for managed operations/programs managed.

• Contributes to the formulation and justification of budgetary requests for the agency as a whole.

• Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates’ performance.

• Develops and directs the implementation of operational plans pertinent to managed operations/programs to ensure the establishment of appropriate goals and the development of action steps to achieve these goals.

• Develops and recommends new and revised statutes, rules, policies, and procedures to respond to changes in operational/program needs, objectives, and priorities and to improve the effectiveness of managed operations/programs.

• Determines budget allocations and makes budget recommendations.

• Oversees preparation and publication of Annual Operating Plan, Capital Improvement plan and related budget documents.

• Tracks budget developments.

• Reviews data on expenditures and revenues.

• Supervises work and reviews results compiled by Budget Analysts.

• Reviews and distributes Budget Manual.

• Acts in Budget Director’s absence.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data, and overseeing the execution of these decisions.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include budget analysts and city department heads. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.

• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as personal computer, telephone, fax machine, word processing, spreadsheet and database software, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as revenue and expenditure reports, budget requests, operating plan, budget ordinances, line item budget detail, manuals, statutes and other non-routine correspondence.

• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; may require the ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or interpret graphs; may require the ability to utilize principles of statistical inference.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.

• Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to disease and irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.

• Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing five to ten pounds, such as office equipment and reports. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify degrees of similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as graphs and the ringing of the telephone. Requires the ability to distinguish objects clearly at close-range, such as budget line item detail.

A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business or Public Administration, or a related field; plus four years of progressively responsible budgeting, financial, and/or accounting experience which includes two years of financial management experience. Candidate must have direct experience in the development, analysis, and monitoring of a complex operating plan or budget.

Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%

May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail

Medical Examination: Pass/Fail

Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request

When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Veterans Preference Points

To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.

City Residence Preference Points

City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.

Accommodations

If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.