Budget Analyst

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

Under the direction of the Director for Budget and Financial Planning the Budget Analyst is responsible for providing analyses and reports related to planning developing implementing and administrating Westerns operating budget. This position may include supporting development of the state biennial and supplemental budget requests; leading the preparation of fiscal notes during legislative session; managing the Universitys institutional budget; and providing other policy fiscal and operational analysis in support of the university operating budget.

Position Duties and Responsibilities

45% - Legislative Session & Budgetary Support

• Assist with biennial and supplemental budget development coordinate decision packages enter and verify budgetary data in the state Office of Financial Management (OFM) systems.
• Prepare and submit the biennial and annual allotment expenditure plans for all allotted operating funds; prepare monthly journal vouchers to report expenditure actuals to the state; and monitor actuals on a monthly basis to ensure internal allocations and allotments remain reconciled.
• Analyze proposed & adopted state operating budgets and identify potential impacts to WWU.
• Review pending legislative bills; assist with preparation and submission of fiscal notes and legislative information requests; collaborate with subject matter experts to identify fiscal impacts and cost estimates.
• Coordinate meetings with other Washington public universities WWU Governmental Relations and OFM during legislative session to ensure alignment across the sector in our approach to fiscal notes and budget development.

45% - Ongoing Budget Office Responsibilities

• Develop and facilitate Fall and Spring Management Reporting process by preparing resources leading trainings and assisting as a subject matter expert in support of unit completion of revenue budget and expense forecasting.
• Assist the Director and Assistant Vice President (AVP) in managing the universitys institutional budget including maintaining institutional memberships implementing cash and budgetary transfers ensuring timely invoice payments tracking and reconciling institutional budget commitments and ad hoc financial analysis to inform decision makers.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and expense forecasting to inform presentation materials and budget change recommendations related to university budget and financial information.
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders to review current processes and practices including communicating and translating technical information across various stakeholder groups.
• Conduct research of best practices among institutions of higher education for budget development maintenance and reporting processes assessing feasibility of adoption.
• Update consolidate and improve existing process manuals and internal Budget and Financial Planning publications.
• Serve on work teams as a subject matter expert.

10% - Other Duties as Assigned

• Serve as backup for several key Budget and Financial Planning roles; Assist senior leadership with ad hoc projects as requested.
• Conduct budget transfers review position requests help maintain the Budget and Financial Planning website and fulfill other duties as assigned.

• Bachelors degree in business or public administration finance or a field relevant to position or equivalent experience/education
• At least three years of professional experience related to budgets and financial management
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex fiscal information into clear easy to understand language
• Demonstrated excellent interpersonal verbal communication analytical critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing deadlines on multiple projects.
• Demonstrated experience working with people of diverse backgrounds as a member of an inclusive team.
• Ability to handle sensitive financial and business information in a confidential manner.

• Masters degree in business or public administration finance or a field relevant to position or equivalent experience/education
• Relevant work experience in higher education field
• Demonstrated experience working with financial or business system databases especially Banner/Ellucian and Millennium systems

Benefits Overview for Administrative Professional Position.

A cover letter and resume are required and should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications. Please include the names and contact information of three professional references. References will only be contacted if necessary with notice provided beforehand.

Western Washington University (WWU) is an equal opportunity compliance with applicable laws WWU does not discriminate on the basis of race ethnicity color national origin age citizenship or immigration status pregnancy use of protective leave genetic status sex sexual orientation gender identity gender expression marital status creed religion veteran or military status disability or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal (including a service animal in training) by a person with a disability or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law in its programs or activities including employment admissions and educational programs. See WWUs Policies onProhibiting Discrimination Based on A Protected Class and Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Sex. Inquiries may be directed to the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Compliance Title IX and ADA Coordinator Western Washington University Old Main 126 (MS 9021) 516 High Street Bellingham WA 98225; 360.650.3307 (voice) or 711 (Washington Relay);

WWU is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. To request this document in an alternate format or to request an accommodation please contactHuman Resources Disability Services 360.650.3751 or 711 (Washington Relay).

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All new employees must comply with the immunization policy and show employment eligibility verification as required by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service before beginning work at WWU. A thorough background check will be conducted on all new hires which includes a sexual misconduct background check.