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Senior Budget Analyst- Budget Analyst 5
State of Iowa
595 Iowa Department of Public Safety
Location
Iowa, 50319
Salary
$38.27 - $58.86
per hour
Type
Full Time
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Job Description
Summary
This job involves leading the budget planning and financial tracking for Iowa's Department of Public Safety, a large state agency focused on law enforcement and public safety.
The role includes analyzing spending, forecasting future costs like salaries for over 1,000 employees, and working closely with department leaders to ensure budgets stay on track.
It's a great fit for someone with strong financial analysis skills who enjoys detailed number-crunching in a government setting and can handle complex projections.
Key Requirements
- Experience in budget development, including preparing and maintaining annual budget requests using historical data
- Proficiency in financial analysis, such as tracking payments, receipts, cash balances, and creating monthly financial statements
- Ability to develop and maintain forecasting models, including salary projections for large workforces with vacancy savings and benefit adjustments
- Skills in cost allocations for areas like payroll, SWCAP, eDAS, ICN, Single Audit, and computer software
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to lead quarterly meetings with executive management on budget changes and project tracking
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field (implied for senior role)
- Ability to pass a background investigation by the Iowa Department of Public Safety
Full Job Description
This is not a remote position. Hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at DPS headquarters in Des Moines.The Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS) is seeking to fill a Budget Analyst 5 (Senior Budget Analyst) position within the Finance Bureau of the Administrative Services Division.
Organization Background:
The mission of DPS is to serve the people of Iowa by providing public safety services with leadership, integrity and professionalism through the core values of courtesy, service and protection. The Department is a statewide law enforcement agency and includes the Administrative Services Division, the Iowa State Patrol, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, the Iowa State Fire Marshal and the Division of Intelligence. The Department works in conjunction with federal, state and local jurisdictions of the criminal justice community to provide for the safety of persons living in or traveling through the State of Iowa.
Benefits:
The Department of Public Safety, as a State of Iowa Executive Branch agency, offers exciting benefits:
• Health/Dental and Life Insurance
• Paid time off - Nine paid holidays plus generous paid vacation and paid sick leave which begin to accrue on your first day of employment
• Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS) defined benefit program
• Employee discounts from a variety of vendors
• Collaborative, creative, positive work environment
• Paid opportunities for professional growth and development - including training, courses and conferences
Job Description:
The Department of Public Safety is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to lead the budget development process for a large state agency. Budget development includes preparing, entering, and maintaining the annual budget request utilizing past data analysis. A download of financial reports to track/analyze payments, receipts, and cash balances for the department to include monthly ICN and eDAS invoices will be completed daily.
This position will direct, analyze and facilitate budgeting for all divisions/bureaus of the Department of Public Safety by creating financial statements monthly which include current expenditures, current outstanding expenses, and future budget forecasts. This position will collaborate with executive management on analysis of the agency budget by leading quarterly meetings to ensure projects are on track and being invoiced as expected, income and expenditures are accurately reflected, and discuss explanations of significant budget changes. This position will develop and maintain an analytical model for forecasting to assure financial feasibility for future projects. This model will include an extensive salary forecast and projection for over 1,000 full-time positions, taking into account vacancy savings. The vacancy savings will account for staffing changes, known wage and benefit increases, collective bargaining agreement changes, and reliable assumptions based on historical data.
Costing Allocations (including, but not limited to, Payroll, SWCAP, eDAS, ICN, Single Audit, and Computer Software) will be created, analyzed, maintained and updated yearly to insure proper allocation of expenses.
Other Information:
Applicants must be able to pass through a background investigation conducted by the Iowa Department of Public Safety.
Applicants are encouraged to attach a cover letter and resume within the NEOGOV application.
E-Verify and Right to Work
The State of Iowa participates in E-Verify, a federal program that helps employers confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees.
Within the required timeframe, new hires will be verified through the E-Verify system to ensure authorization to work in the United States.
The State of Iowa also complies with the federal Right to Work laws, which protect employees’ rights to work without being required to join a labor organization.
For more information, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
Qualifications
Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:- Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in accounting, finance, or business administration, and experience equal to six years of full-time work in professional budget analysis or fiscal management.
- Ten years of full-time work experience in professional budget analysis or fiscal management.
- A total of ten years of education and/or full-time experience (as described in number one), where thirty semester hours of accredited college or university course work in accounting, finance, or business administration equals one year of full-time experience.
- Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes eighteen months of full-time work as a Budget Analyst 3 or six months of full-time work as a Budget Analyst 4.
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