SSA Budget Lead

State of Maryland • Baltimore City, MD

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking a Lead Budget Analyst for its Office of Budget and Finance. This position will provide staff support and assistance as a lead budget analyst for a budget team responsible for preparing, monitoring, and enforcing a specified DHS administration's central and local budget. The Lead Budget Analyst will be responsible for the development, negotiation, and execution of the Social Services Administration/Child Welfare budgets, as well as the assignment and review of work for lower-level analysts and support staff. The analyst ensures that funds for the provision of services are obtained and managed in a manner consistent with all State and Federal guidelines and overall Department goals.

Requirements

• Eight years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution.
• Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and four years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution for the required experience.
• Candidates may substitute graduate education from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, political science or public administration at a rate of 30 credit hours for five years of required experience.
• Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Budget Officer classifications or Financial Management specialty codes in the Budgeting field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Nice To Haves

• One year of experience with the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
• One year of experience with the Budget Analysis and Reporting System (BARS).
• One year of experience preparing and/or overseeing a budget in a government agency.

Responsibilities

• Systematically evaluates financial systems, data structures, and agency formatting needs to establish robust monitoring methodologies across departmental programs.
• Ongoing analysis of fiscal data to assess operational impacts, program success, and compliance with program regulations and grant proposals.
• Maintain fiscal integrity and oversight, agency budgets, expenditure projections, and routine financial reports for Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management, the CFO, and executive staff.
• Prepares comprehensive budget instruction guidelines and distributes them to both central administrations and local departments to ensure standardized request submissions across the agency.
• Gathers and evaluates prior-year expenditures to identify spending trends while projecting upcoming financial needs based on programmatic plans and designs.
• Reviews administration submissions, recommends appropriate funding levels, additions, deletions, or adjustments, and actively justifies and defends all budget recommendations to Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management.
• Provides comprehensive administrative support, manages daily office workloads, prepares official correspondence, and oversees assigned program projects.
• Actively participates in internal meetings, committees, and specialized workgroups as directed by leadership to ensure effective governance.

Benefits

• health insurance
• dental
• vision plans
• six (6) personnel days annually
• ten (10) days of accumulated annual leave per year
• fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave per year
• up to sixty (60) days of paid parental leave upon the birth or adoption of a child
• at least twelve (12) holiday per year
• Pension – State employees earn credits towards a retirement pension.

What This Job Offers

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