Senior Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer

City of New York • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) seeks a Senior Advisor within its Fiscal and Business Management (FBM) Line of Service. FBM provides strategic financial management for the agency’s $2 billion expense budget and $10 billion capital budget. Its units include the Agencywide Expense Budget, Bureau of Audits and Accounts, Capital Budget, Revenue Budget, and Nonpublic Schools Security Reimbursement Program.

The Senior Advisor provides advisory and analytical support for the Agencywide Expense Budget, Capital Budget, and Revenue Budget. Reporting directly to the Deputy Commissioner of Fiscal and Business Management, the position provides complex data analysis, policy insight, and operational capacity for preparing and managing the agency’s expense, revenue, and capital budgets. Work includes reviewing personnel services (PS) and other-than-personnel services (OTPS) budgets, preparing spending projections, developing data-based policy recommendations, and identifying opportunities for operational and budgetary efficiencies.

Requirements

• Meet one of the stated education and experience pathways: a relevant master's degree or Juris Doctor plus two years of qualifying professional experience; a bachelor's degree plus four years; an associate degree or 60 semester credits plus six years; a high school diploma or equivalent plus eight years; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Qualifying professional experience may include budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, fiscal or economic research, management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research, program evaluation, personnel or public administration, or the other related fields specified in the posting.
• At least 18 months of qualifying experience must be in an executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory capacity. Supervisory experience must include supervising staff performing professional work in the specified areas.
• Under the education-and-experience equivalency option, candidates must have a high school diploma and at least two years of qualifying experience, including the required 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience.
• College education may substitute for professional experience at a rate of 30 semester credits for one year of experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the annual budget process through detailed analysis and forecasting of agency expenditures, and report findings to the Deputy Commissioner and agency leadership.
• Coordinate with DCAS Lines of Service to project expenses and identify areas requiring operational review and management attention.
• Review budget expenditures and revenue collections to identify opportunities for revenue generation.
• Develop analyses supporting new needs requests to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in coordination with DCAS Lines of Service.
• Coordinate responses to internal and external requests for agency and programmatic budget information, including conducting ad hoc analysis.
• Formulate recommendations and advise the Deputy Commissioner of Finance and other senior management, identifying potential budget surpluses or deficits and special budget circumstances.
• Assess agency budget operations and advise the Deputy Commissioner of Finance, in consultation with relevant FBM Assistant Commissioners, on finance policy updates for agencywide implementation.
• Develop strategies to improve long-term budgetary planning and governance structures.

What This Job Offers

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