County of Berks, PA · 4 weeks ago
Sr Financial Analyst (Budget & Finance Department)
633 Court Street, Reading, PA, 19601, US
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
6+ years expCounty of Berks, PA is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for their Budget & Finance Department. This role is primarily responsible for budget review, evaluation, and monitoring, ensuring grant compliance, and supervising fiscal managers and staff across various departments.
Government Administration
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. Which includes: review of accounting, recommendations for accounting adjustments, reconciliation of accounts, and/or review of reconciliations, including providing templates to ensure the accounting is accurate and reliable from a financial reporting, data analysis and decision support perspective, reconciliation of compliance reporting to accounting records, review of compliance reports and reconciliations (occurs on a weekly basis)
Prepares monthly, quarterly analysis that: monitors impact of changes in funding certifications on budgeted county match, ensure accuracy of booked receivables and payables and projected year end fund balances
Maintains complex and technical budget and budget progression records that support annual budget development and proactive decision making. Also monitoring 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. Monitor 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 compliment
Monitors on-going 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 verse buy, ROI, breakeven analysis, in source verses outsource decisions, department performance metrics, six sigma financial impact statements
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business with emphasis in accounting
Six (6) plus years recent experience in public sector financial accounting and/or budgetary analysis or related private sector experience
Ability to analyze complex financial related activities
Accomplished user of Excel to create financial analysis, including creation of pivot tables and use of import function
Extremely organized and attention to detail
Ability to multitask and reprioritize goals and deliverables on a daily, weekly basis
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to collaborate both on projects and teams or committees and independently
Physical presence in the office is required
Ability to handle stress
Preferred
Advanced degree such as CGFM/MBA
Working knowledge of generally accepted government accounting principles as they pertain to fund accounting
Ability to analyze Regulatory Acts and translate the economic provisions into budget dollars and related general fund impact
Significant experience with export and query functions of enterprise financial software packages
Experience with the use of ERP platforms for financial analysis and budgeting
Company
County of Berks, PA
It is the mission of Berks County government and all County employees to administer and deliver services to the citizens of the County in the most effective, efficient and professional manner possible within the constraints of the financial resources available.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Timothy Smith
Chief Information Officer
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