Deputy Budget Director

Job Description - Deputy Budget Director (2600001E)

Position Grade: 17M
Department: Budget Division
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Examination Number: EX1553
Location: Downtown, St. Louis, MO

This is advanced responsible administrative work assisting the Budget Director in various activities within the Budget Division. Responsibilities include assisting with capital projects, financial planning, and performance measurement; direct responsibility for the preparation of the City's annual operating budget; and acting as Budget Director in the Director's absence.

• Plans, organizes, coordinates and controls the work unit’s operations/programs to establish operational priorities, coordinate these operations with other functions within the agency, and ensure program objectives and standards are established, attained and congruent with overall goals.
• Determines performance evaluation standards and procedures to provide information to subordinate staff on individual work performance expectations to ensure complete and objective appraisal of subordinates’ performance.
• Develops and directs the implementation of operational plans pertinent to managed operations/programs to ensure the establishment of appropriate goals and the development of action steps to achieve these goals.
• Develops and recommends new and revised statutes, rules, policies, and procedures to respond to changes in operational/program needs, objectives, and priorities and to improve the effectiveness of managed operations/programs.
• Determines budget allocations and makes budget recommendations.
• Oversees preparation and publication of Annual Operating Plan, Capital Improvement plan and related budget documents.
• Tracks revenues and expenditure data and provides fiscal analyses regarding trends and performance as to City budget.
• Supervises work and reviews results compiled by Budget Analysts.
• Reviews and distributes Budget Manual.
• Acts in Budget Director’s absence.

• Data Utilization:
  Requires the ability to perform mid to upper-level data analysis including the ability to coordinate, strategize, systemize and correlate, using discretion in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations within an organizational framework. Requires the ability to implement decisions based on such data and overseeing the execution of these decisions.
• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to manage and direct a large group of employees, which may include budget analysts and city department heads. Oversees and controls employee discipline, selection and allocation, and planning of human resources.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as personal computer, telephone, fax machine, word processing, spreadsheet and database software, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as revenue and expenditure reports, budget requests, operating plan, budget ordinances, line item budget detail, manuals, statutes and other non-routine correspondence.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; may require the ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or interpret graphs; may require the ability to utilize principles of statistical inference.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions involving planning and directing of interrelated activities or multiple departments. Ability to deal with several concrete and abstract variables in working out approaches to major problems.
• Situational Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the direction, control and planning of an entire program or multiple programs.
• Environmental Factors:
  Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable…