Senior Advisor to the Chief Financial Officer

City of New York • New York, NY

6d • $146,007 - $165,295

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 of the agency’s $2 billion expense budget and $10 billion capital budget. The Senior Advisor provides advisory and analytical support for the Agencywide Expense Budget, Capital Budget, and Revenue Budget, including complex data analysis, policy insight, and operational capacity for preparing and managing agency budgets. The work includes reviewing personnel services (PS) and other-than-personnel services (OTPS) budgets, preparing spending projections, developing data-informed policy recommendations, and identifying operational and budgetary efficiencies.

The role reports directly to the Deputy Commissioner of the Fiscal and Business Management. It supports the annual budget process and coordinates with DCAS Lines of Service, agency leadership, and other stakeholders on forecasting, budget analysis, revenue, requests, policies, and long-term planning.

Requirements

• Meet one of the stated Administrative Staff Analyst qualification pathways, including the required education and professional experience in areas such as 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 fiscal management.
• All qualification pathways require 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the specified fields.
• The education-and-experience combination pathway requires a high school diploma and at least two years of qualifying professional experience, including the required 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory 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 needing increased operational review and management.
• Review budget expenditures and revenue collections to maximize revenue-generation opportunities.
• Develop analyses supporting new needs requests to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), coordinating with DCAS Lines of Service.
• Coordinate responses to internal and external requests for agency and programmatic budgets, including 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 Assistant Commissioners within FBM, 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