Capital Budget Officer

Prince George's County Government • Largo, MD

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This is management-level, professional and administrative work performed in conjunction with the administration of a major budget development or management analyses program. Incumbents provide key management-level, administrative, and technical support to a Budget/Management Manager or may function as a section chief in functional areas characteristic of the department. Significant aspects of the work include interpreting and explaining the more complex details of budget/management analyses policies, procedures, laws, and regulations to County personnel in resolving the most complex programmatic problems or issues. Personal contacts for employees in this class are primarily with other employees, supervisors, and managers in the Office of Management; Budget Management Managers in various Departments/Agencies; the Office of the County Executive staff; and Count Council staff. The purpose of these contacts is to advise, persuade, often negotiate, and otherwise present analyses and recommendations about issues which have significant impact on operating and capital budget formulation and decision making, and other issues which have either political, legal, fiscal, social, environmental, tax rate and/or service delivery implications. While this class of work occasionally requires employees to meet or speak before the general public and citizen groups, it does not require incumbents to provide direct public service or assistance on a one-to-one basis.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business/Public Management, Finance, Economics, Quantitative Analyses, or closely related field.
• Four (4) year of progressively responsible administrative and budgeting experience; including at least two (2) year in the lead/supervisory role.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience and training which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered; however, there is no substitution for the required supervisory experience.
• Please note there is no equivalency for the required supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive knowledge of the principles, practices, methods and techniques of budgeting and program evaluation.
• Extensive knowledge of the laws, rules and regulations governing the preparation, review and implementation of operating and capital budget requests.
• Extensive knowledge of the functions, operation and organization of the Departments and Agencies appropriate to the affected position.
• Considerable knowledge of the research and statistical principles, methods and procedures applicable to government budgeting and accounting, or management analyses, and data processing.
• Extensive knowledge of budget cycle and requirements of preparing the County's annual budget document.
• Knowledge of project/program management life cycle and ways to evaluate project/program effectiveness.
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analyses and reporting of financial data.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Responsibilities

• Exercises the full range of supervisory duties and responsibilities over subordinate positions as defined in the Personnel Law.
• Plans, directs and evaluates the work of a group of professional, para-professional and clerical personnel, engaged in budget/management analyses operations.
• Participates in the development of administrative and budgetary policies and procedures.
• Supervises the development of separate and distinct systems of administrative controls tailored to the needs of individual Departments/Agencies to ensure the most effective economical expenditure of allocated funds; assesses budgetary requirements for agencies which have distinctly dissimilar kinds of activities.
• Plans and conducts complex research in problems of considerable scope and complexity which are difficult to define and require expert research techniques.
• Meets with administrative officials on complex organization, management, and procedural problems, and works with supervisor or higher level official in establishing management survey objectives and priorities.
• Plans and develops comprehensive reports which provide direction for immediate and long-term budget policy decisions.
• Maintains a system for continual assessment and reevaluation of the County forecasts relative to change in demographic and socio-economic factors.
• Supervises the development and monitoring of systems and procedures necessary for the administration of Federal and State grants received by the County departments.
• Represents the Office of Management and Budget in meetings with other departments and outside agencies at meetings and hearings; works with regional groups to identify and resolve multi-jurisdictional problems.
• Supervises preparation of statements for County Executive on budgetary issues relating to budget/management analyses.
• Represents the Office of Management and Budget or respective Department/Agency in meetings with other departments and outside agencies at meetings and hearings; works with regional groups to identify and resolve multi-jurisdictional problems.
• Prepares statements for County Executive on budgetary issues related to assigned agencies.
• Develops, revises and provides budget preparation instruction and guidance to assigned departments and agencies; provides technical assistance during budget preparation.
• Evaluates budgetary submissions for technical compliance and for funding implications upon program operations.
• Prepares written and oral presentations describing requested budgets of assigned departments and agencies.
• Participates in budgetary meetings with agency representatives, senior budget staff, and Council members and staff regarding budget proposals.
• Conducts management studies of agency operations and develop administrative systems.
• Uses automated data systems and other sources, monitors agency expenditure patterns and prepares projections of future expenditures.
• Monitors assigned Department/Agency approved operating and capital budgets by identifying issues and problems requiring attention, obtaining and analyzing information through field audits and statistical analyses, preparing reports of findings and recommendations, providing guidance and assistance to Department/Agency heads and managers, and following through on approved course of action.
• Conducts a variety of studies requiring coordination among many people and Departments/Agencies, and consideration of many issues.
• Meets with appropriate officials to discuss proposals, consider alternatives and modifications, and/or resolve problems.
• Analyzes Department/Agency operations and staffing patterns and recommends actions to improve service delivery and attain maximum cost-effectiveness.
• Analyzes and recommends action to be taken concerning requests for reallocation of funds and supplemental appropriations; ensures proposed transactions comply with rules, regulations and laws, and represent most cost-effective means of accomplishment.
• Reviews and analyzes numerous computer reports; manipulates and reconciles data for clarity and accuracy; and creates data bases, spreadsheets, and other analytic structures to analyze budgets, issues, reorganizations, etc.
• Discovers, analyzes and reports on issues and problems appropriate to areas of assignment.
• Drafts budgetary legislation and Executive Orders; reviews and analyzes State and Federal grant proposals affecting assigned agencies.
• Prepares written and oral reports for the Deputy Budget Director, Budget Director, and Chief Administrative Officer.
• Serves as budget representative on selected County committees; may occasionally serve as budget representative for the County with outside organizations.
• Will be required to use automated equipment in conjunction with assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Willingly and cooperatively performs tasks and duties which may not be specifically listed in the class specification or position description, but which are within the general occupational category and responsibility level typically associated with the employee's class of work.

Benefits

• Upon selection, the candidate must (where applicable): Meet all training and performance standards and demonstrate proficiency as required by the agency.
• Wear and use agency protective apparel and equipment in the performance of their assigned duties.
• Successfully pass preemployment checks which may include reference checks, background investigations, and drug screenings, where applicable.
• Be willing and able to serve as an essential employee. Essential employees are expected to report during standard or non-standard hours as operations necessitate, or during emergencies. Essential employees are expected to report or remain at work when other County employees are granted Administrative Leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager