City Budget Manager

Eagle Mountain City•Eagle Mountain, UT

About The Position

The City Budget Manager manages budgeting and financial planning for enterprise funds, including water, wastewater, and storm water, and revenue and rate-support analysis as assigned. The position supervises management, budget, and finance analysts and coordinates the organization's annual operating and capital budget development process in a complex, multi-fund governmental accounting environment. The role analyzes departmental proposals across the General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Enterprise Funds; prepares cost analyses, revenue projections, and comparative financial evaluations; and develops multi-year budget forecasts and financial models. It monitors budget execution and performance, analyzes variances, and recommends budget adjustments and corrective actions. The City Budget Manager develops financial dashboards and reporting solutions using Microsoft Power BI, maintains data integrations with the organization's ERP and other internal systems, and prepares reports and presentations for executive leadership, governing bodies, departments, and public stakeholders. The position also provides technical guidance to departments on budget development, fund structure, forecasting, cost allocation, and financial reporting tools; serves on boards, councils, committees, or task forces; and ensures compliance with applicable fiscal regulations, governmental accounting standards, and internal controls.

Requirements

Master's degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Local Government, Finance, or a related degree; foreign equivalent degree accepted.
Three years of experience as a Management Analyst in a local government with a population greater than 50,000, or a comparable governmental or nonprofit environment.
Experience analyzing financial data in a multi-fund governmental accounting environment.
Experience developing multi-year budget forecasts and financial models.
Experience monitoring budgets in the public sector.
Demonstrated ability to analyze financial data, develop forecasts, and communicate recommendations clearly in writing.
Demonstrated ability to present complex financial information in a public setting.
Demonstrated ability to prepare financial reports and dashboards using business intelligence tools drawing data from enterprise financial systems.
Demonstrated knowledge of municipal budgeting and financial planning, including fund-based budgeting and capital planning.
Demonstrated knowledge of Utah municipal fiscal procedures applicable to cities.

Responsibilities

Manage budgeting and financial planning for water, wastewater, and storm water enterprise funds, including revenue and rate-support analysis as assigned.
Supervise management, budget, and finance analysts.
Coordinate and administer annual operating and capital budget development, including budget instructions, timelines, analytical frameworks, and consolidation of departmental submissions.
Analyze departmental budget proposals across General Fund, Special Revenue Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Enterprise Funds for sound assumptions, programmatic and operational impacts, and compliance with fiscal policies and constraints.
Prepare cost analyses, revenue projections, and comparative financial evaluations for fund-level and organization-wide planning and decisions.
Develop, maintain, and enhance multi-year budget forecasts and financial models using historical fund data, interfund activities, economic indicators, and long-term revenue and expenditure trends.
Analyze budget-to-actual revenue and expenditure variances by fund, identify material deviations, and recommend budget adjustments and corrective actions.
Monitor fiscal-year budget execution to ensure expenditures, transfers, and fund balances comply with appropriations, fiscal controls, and governmental accounting standards.
Design, develop, and maintain financial dashboards and analytical reporting solutions using Microsoft Power BI.
Configure and maintain dashboard data integrations using APIs and connections to the ERP system and other internal financial and operational systems.
Prepare budget reports, financial schedules, and presentations for executive leadership, governing bodies, and public stakeholders.
Provide departments with technical guidance on fund structure, budget development, forecasting assumptions, cost allocation, and financial reporting tools.
Serve on boards, councils, committees, or task forces to coordinate agency activities and facilitate agency goals and initiatives.
Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local fiscal regulations, governmental accounting standards, and internal control requirements.