Management Analyst - Budget and Audit

Classification: Exempt

Responsible for assisting in the planning, coordination, and preparation of the Agency’s annual Audit and the Operating & Capital Improvement Project Budget, reviewing internal controls and understanding and maintaining the financial system and accounting integrity. Must be detail-oriented, a strategic and dynamic thinker and possess excellent interpersonal skills.Agency Management
Management Analysts share responsibilities for implementing Agency-wide policies, procedures, objectives and directives through programs and practices which reflect the Vision Statement and the SHRA in-house cultural objectives. Management Analysts are responsible for supporting a "one agency" perspective while acting as advocates for their work units. Management Analysts support the Executive Team.

Audit Management 

• Develop timelines and coordinate preparation of Agency financial statements
• Review accountants' work papers and compile information for ACFR.
• Compile the ACFR’s schedules including the Management's Discussions and Analysis (MD&A)
• Assist in the preparation of the Letter of Transmittal (LOT)
• Act as primary contact for external auditors and staff
• Prepare ACFR footnotes and arrange for transmittal and confirmation letters
• Responsible for the coordinating and obtaining approval for Auditor selection
• Organize auditor contract, purchase order and payment
• Prepare staff reports to Commission, Board and Council for the ACFR
• Prepare and update lists for distribution of the ACFR
• Update and maintain financial statement documents in Excel and Word
• Interpret and implement GASB statements and new audit requirements
• Review and update internal controls
• Organize and prepare management responses to audit findings
• Work with grantors to complete grant audits and grant monitoring

 
Budget Management

• Develop timelines and combine department budgets into the Agency's Operating and Capital Budget
• Assist Executive Management in analyzing the proposed budget and finding alternative funding if needed
• Prepare, analyze and review Revenue and Expense data and complete special reports as needed.
• Prepare and balance expenditure and revenue schedules
• Coordinate printing, binding and distribution of budget documents
• Assist managers in developing departmental budgets
• Review budget proposals for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with laws and other regulations
• Assist with Balancing Public Housing Fund worksheets for the Financial Data Schedule (FDS)
• Assist in Budget projections

General Duties

• Secondary banking contact person
• Wire transfer payments to vendors
• Oversee bank and loan reconciliations prepared by accountants
• Oversee fixed assets prepared by accountants
• Review and post journal entries
• Review budget amendments.
• Set up general ledger account strings
• Assist in preparing and implementing the Cost allocation Plan pursuant to federal regulations

• Education equivalent to the completion of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in accounting, business administration or a closely related field.
• Two (2) years of recent professional finance, accounting and budgeting administration experience requiring analysis and interpretation of data in a public agency or municipal environment for a complex organization
• A CPA or MBA is desirable
  

Salary : $80,201 - $124,417