Senior Budget Analyst, Office Grand Connection; LTE

The City of Bellevue Office of Grand Connection within the City Manager’s Office has an exciting and unique opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Budget Analyst
. We are seeking a dynamic and forward-thinking candidate to join our team and take the lead in providing financial management and oversight for an exciting infrastructure project. If you enjoy financial management and analysis, thrive on variety and change, then this position is where your financial expertise meets unparalleled diversity!

The Grand Connection program is a series of projects and initiatives designed to improve the pedestrian and bicycle experience between Meydenbauer Bay Park through downtown Bellevue across Interstate 405 to Eastrail. The most high-profile element will be the signature bridge crossing over Interstate 405, to better connect walkers and bicyclists to both sides of the freeway.

As a Senior Budget Analyst, you will not only be responsible for the traditional aspects of financial management and analysis, but you’ll also actively collaborate with department heads to align financial goals with organization objectives. This is a developing position in scope and responsibilities, and you will have the ability to help determine the build out of the reporting mechanisms and procedures.

Overall, the position will be responsible for monthly financial monitoring and analysis; creation, maintenance, and reporting of various tracking systems; conducting comprehensive financial analyses to identify trends and support the development of the biennial budgets; facilitate communication and coordination between departments to ensure financial plans align with the organizational goals; and develop management systems to assess performance against established benchmarks.

The position will report to Director of the Office of the Grand Connection, have frequent contact and a high profile with the City Manager and the City Council, and will work with various department heads throughout the organization.

As the perfect candidate you will have strong customer service values, have a passion for process improvement, be comfortable with ambiguity and embrace change and diversity. At the same time, you are detailed-oriented and yet able to understand and communicate the big picture. You possess the expertise to handle the nuanced financial planning and analysis required for diverse programs, ensuring that each department’s unique needs are met.

You provide independent financial analysis, demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and are a team player that works with others to solve problems. You should have advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and be able to interface with a variety of software applications to obtain data.

Bellevue is a dynamic, international and multicultural, future-focused, diversity driven, high performing City. Our Council vision is:
Bellevue welcomes the world, our diversity is our strength. We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty. We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live and play.

• Lead all financial analysis with customer departments.
• Present before the City Council and the City Manager Team.
• Performs variance analyses of revenue and expenditures and provides projections.
• Lead analyses to weigh fiscal impact of various programs.
• Lead accounting-based research and analysis to provide definitive financial data and advice for use in administering specific programs and processes.
• Develop and implement performance management systems to track and measure the department’s performance against established goals and objects.
• Assist in the department’s planning, coordination, and administration of the City’s biennial budget process; validate/edit data within budget system to ensure financials align with business needs; ensure accuracy of personnel costs, M&O budget and creates crosswalks and…