Special Revenue and Enterprise Funds (Budget & Finance Department)

County of Berks•Reading, PA

18d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is primarily responsible for multiple Human Service, Enterprise, General Fund, and Agency Funds budget review, evaluation, and monthly monitoring, including evaluation of relevant weekly budget transfer and appropriation requests. This position is responsible for grant compliance and monitoring as it impacts expected revenues and cash flows for assigned departments. This position is expected to assist in the supervision and review of the work of various departments’ fiscal managers and officers and fiscal support staff.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business with emphasis in accounting.
Six (6) plus years of recent experience in public sector financial accounting and/or budgetary analysis or related private sector experience.
Ability to analyze complex financial-related activities (required).
Accomplished user of Excel to create financial analysis, including creation of pivot tables and use of import function(required).
Extremely organized and attention to detail (required).
Ability to multitask and reprioritize goals and deliverables on a daily, weekly basis (required).
Excellent oral and written communication skills (required).
Ability to collaborate both on projects and teams or committees and independently (required).
Physical presence in the office is required.
Ability to handle stress.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree such as CGFM/MBA preferred.
Working knowledge of generally accepted government accounting principles as they pertain to fund accounting (preferred).
Ability to analyze Regulatory Acts and translate the economic provisions into budget dollars and related general fund impact (preferred).
Significant experience with export and query functions of enterprise financial software packages (preferred).
Experience with the use of ERP platforms for financial analysis and budgeting (preferred).

Responsibilities

Works directly with budget manager, department heads, and fiscal managers and officers to develop and maintain an annual budget for assigned general fund and agency departments.
Provides guidance to fiscal managers within assigned departments and provides the necessary technical expertise to ensure the accuracy of financial information.
Prepares monthly and quarterly analyses that monitor the impact of changes in funding certifications on budgeted county match, ensure accuracy of booked receivables and payables, and project year-end fund balances.
Maintains complex and technical budget and budget progression records that support annual budget development and proactive decision-making.
Monitors grant compliance as it pertains to revenues, expenditures, and cash flows.
Converts annual budget information to cash basis for cash flow forecasting and maintains analysis that supports the development of the annual cash flow forecast, as it pertains to assigned departments.
Monitors the actual results to plan on a monthly basis with relevant variance analysis.
Create a five-year forecast for all accounts related to assigned department complement.
Monitors ongoing compliance with Commissioner/budgetary mandates, generally accepted government accounting principles, and regulatory and legislative changes as they relate to revenue, expense, operating and quasi-external transactions.
Create, maintain, and review complex financial analysis and schedules for various functions within the county, such as fringe benefits expense, position control, ad-hoc analysis used for Union negotiations, cost statements, and cost-accounting allocations.
Create and maintain financial analysis that supports staffing levels, build versus buy, ROI, break-even analysis, in-source versus outsource decisions, department performance metrics, Six Sigma financial impact statements.