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Budget Analyst I {TEMP)

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Work Type: Temporary
Location: Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida
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Job Title: Budget Analyst I {TEMP)
Location: Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida
Work Type: Temporary
Job Category: Non-Exempt
Hiring Range: 22.00
Pay Basis:

Hourly

Subject to Grant Funding?: No  
Essential Job Functions: 1. Automating Finance processes by using Digital Microsoft Power applications.

2. Prepares, examines, or analyzes accounting records, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.

3. Reports to management regarding the finances of assigned unit(s).

4. Develops, maintains, and analyzes budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted revenues and expenses to actuals.

5. Interprets budget directives and ensures compliance.

6. Classifies, records, and summarizes numerical and financial data to compile and keep financial records, using journals and ledgers or computers.

7. Prepares purchase orders, check requests, expense reports, journal entries, and budget transfers.

8. Compiles budget data and documents, based on estimated revenues and expenses and previous budgets.

9. Reviews operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs and takes corrective action when needed.

10. Analyzes monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.

11. Provides advice and/or technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.

12. Summarizes budgets and submits recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.

13. Seeks new ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase profits.

14. Completes special projects as assigned.

15. Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Marginal Job Functions:  
Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge:
1. Economics and Accounting - Working knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
2. English Language - General knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
3. Administration and Management- Working knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, budgeting, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
4. Customer and Personal Service - Working knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of user satisfaction.

Skills:
1. Active Listening - Basic skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
2. Reading Comprehension - Basic understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
3. Critical Thinking - Proficient skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
4. Mathematics - Basic skills in using mathematics to solve problems.
5. Speaking - Basic skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
6. Judgment and Decision Making - Basic skills in considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the appropriate one.
7. Writing - Basic skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
8. Management of Financial Resources - Basic skills in determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.

Abilities:
1. Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
2. Number Facility - The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
3. Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
4. Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
5. Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
6. Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

Physical Requirements:
1. Near Vision - Must be able to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
2. Speech Recognition - Must be able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
3. Speech Clarity - Must be able to speak clearly so others can understand you.
4. May be required to work nights or weekends.
5. May be exposed to short, intermittent, and/or prolonged periods of sitting and/or standing in performance of job duties.
6. May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipmenUsupplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, mobile devices, and computer keyboards.
Job Requirements:  
Required Certifications/Licensures:  
Required Education: Bachelor's Degree
Major (if required):  
Required Experience: Up to two (2) years of accounting-related experience.
Preferred Qualifications:  
Is this a safety sensitive position? No  
Background Screening Required? Yes  
Pre-Employment Conditions:

 

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