Finance Analyst Supervisor for Budget
City of Seattle
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Finance Analyst, Senior
City of Seattle
Seattle Center
Location
Seattle, Washington, 98104
Salary
$54.01 - $62.90
per hour
Type
Full-Time
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April 1, 2026
Job Description
Summary
This job involves handling advanced budgeting and financial analysis for Seattle Center, a key city department that manages cultural spaces and events, including preparing budgets, tracking spending, and forecasting finances across various funding sources.
A good fit would be someone with strong analytical skills who enjoys working with numbers, communicating financial ideas clearly to others, and supporting leadership in making smart money decisions for public programs.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field
- At least 5 years of professional experience in budget analysis, financial planning, or public sector finance
- Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and creating spreadsheets or analytical tools
- Experience with grant management, fiscal controls, and compliance with funding requirements
- Strong communication skills to explain complex financial matters to non-experts and build relationships with stakeholders
- Knowledge of cost allocation, labor billing rates, and year-end financial close processes
Full Job Description
About Seattle Center:
Seattle Center is where community comes together—an iconic, inclusive destination that delights and inspires the human spirit.
Seattle Center is the region's premier civic, arts and family gathering place in the core of our city and region, home to more than 30 arts, cultural, and entertainment organizations, family attractions, and tourist amenities.
Seattle Center expanded its role recently beyond our well-known 74-acre campus, to serve as the City’s lead for operating Seattle’s new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle’s downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium.
As a department of the City of Seattle, Seattle Center contributes to the quality of life for Seattle residents—and the region's economy and image as its top visitor destination.
About this position:
The Senior Finance Analyst performs advanced professional budget and financial analysis work in the preparation and maintenance of Seattle Center’s complex operating and capital budgets, as well as grant-funded programs.
This senior-level role serves as a strategic financial partner to department leadership and is critical to the success of the budget team.
The position leads and coordinates development, recommendations, and defense of budgets; conducts complex financial analyses; prepares forecasts and projections; creates reports for staff and monitors fiscal controls across diverse funding sources.
In addition to the analytical responsibilities, this role will also be responsible for building relationships and communicating complex financial matters to accounting and non-accounting staff.
This role reports to the Seattle Center Budget Manager.
Requirements
Here is more of what you will be doing:
- Develops, recommends, and monitors complex operating, capital and program budgets; prepares budget revisions to reflect changes in revenue and program levels; updates the financial management system; and reconciles budget and expenditures to reimbursements.
- Oversee budget performance and fiscal controls, monitor appropriations, expenditures, reimbursements, grants, and capital activity to ensure compliance, accuracy, and timely close-out.
- Conduct complex financial analyses on fiscal and financial policy issues; analyzes and reviews prior year expenditures, grant balances, and fund sources; and prepares financial forecasts, cost projections and actionable recommendations.
- Create, maintain and update financial tracking tools and perform executive-level reporting and briefings.
- Identify and analyze revenue shortfalls, budget overruns, and emerging financial risks.
- Create complex spreadsheets, queries, and analytical tools from financial system data, and respond to ad-hoc inquiries and analytical requests.
- Develop and administer labor billing rates for third-party cost recovery, ensuring accurate calculation of direct and indirect personnel costs, compliance with City policies, and equitable reimbursement from external partners, tenants, and event producers.
- Design and manage cost allocation methodologies, ensuring appropriate distribution of shared and indirect costs across programs, funds, and revenue-generating activities in alignment with funding requirements and fiscal best practices.
- Support and coordinate year-end close activities, including expenditure and revenue coding corrections, preparation of journal entries, fund balancing, reconciliation of interfund activity, and compliance with Citywide financial reporting requirements.
- Develop sophisticated financial models, dashboards, and scenario analyses to support strategic plan implementation, long-range forecasting, and executive decision-making.
- Serve as a strategic financial advisor to leadership, translating operational initiatives, staffing plans, policy changes, and partnership agreements into clear financial implications.
- Strengthen internal controls and financial processes, identifying efficiencies and implementing enhancements that improve data integrity, transparency, and service delivery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Accounting, HR, and program teams to ensure coordinated service delivery, accurate reporting, and alignment with Citywide financial policies.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Accounting or related field plus three years professional experience in budget management, financial analysis, accounting, or related work (or a combination of education, training, experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).
You will be successful in this role if you have demonstrated expertise in:
- Advanced experience with Excel, including pivot tables, formulas and report creation.
- Experience with dashboard creation and maintenance for tools such as Microsoft PowerBI and tableau.
- Knowledge of Peoplesoft or equivalent accounting and financial software systems as well as Accounting procedures.
- Experience with continuous improvement, including the ability to identify areas for needed improvement and implementing process improvement strategies.
- Experience working with communities of color and people from different cultures than your own.
Work Environment/Physical Demands:
- This position offers flexibility of a hybrid work schedule. Employees will be expected to be in-office three times a week. Individual schedules will be based on agreement between the employee and their supervisor.
Additional Information
The full pay range for this step-progression position is $54.01 - $62.90 per hour. New employees begin at Step 1 of the pay progression, which is $54.01 hourly. Current City employees’ starting rate of pay will be based on Personnel Rules regarding promotions.
How to Apply:
Applications will be accepted for this position until 4:00 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. To be considered for this position, in addition to completing your application fully, please attach:
- A PDF of your current resume
- Cover Letter
Your application may be rejected as incomplete if you do not include the relevant information in the application. Cover letters and/or resumes are not accepted in lieu of a completed application.
Applications and/or Supplemental Questionnaires that state "see my resume" or "see my personnel file" are considered incomplete and will not be accepted.
IMPORTANT NOTE: To align with our commitment to equity and the City of Seattle's Race and Social Justice Initiative, Seattle Center is collecting cover letters and resumes without personal identifiers to achieve a blind screening process.
Background Check - Applicants must successfully pass a background check, which will be conducted in accordance with Seattle’s Fair Chance Employment Ordinance, SMC 14.17.
Applicants will be given a chance to explain or correct background information and provide verifiable information of good conduct and rehabilitation.
Individuals selected to fill this position may be eligible to receive Language Premium Pay (SMC 4.20.360), which provides a $200.00 monthly stipend to qualified bilingual employees who are properly evaluated and assigned to provide direct communication in-language, interpretation, or translation services to the public on behalf of the City of Seattle.
Why work at the City?
The City of Seattle recognizes every City employee must play a role in ending institutional and structural racism.
Our culture is the result of our behavior, our personal commitments, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same.
To cultivate an antiracist culture, we seek employees who will engage in dismantling racist policies and procedures, unlearn the way things have always been done, and create and provide equitable processes and services.
Seattle Office of Civil Rights)
Benefits – The City of Seattle offers a comprehensive benefits package including vacation, holiday, and sick leave as well as medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability insurance for employees and their dependents.
More information about employee benefits is available on the City's website at: https://www.seattle.gov/human-resources/benefits/employees-and-covered-family-members/most-employees-plans
Resources for Applicants:
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