Budget Analyst ; BA​/FS

Budget Analyst 4 (BA4/FS)

This Budget Analyst 4 has a direct impact on agency-wide finances, and provides a strategic role in planning/forecasting, ensuring fiscal compliance, analytical challenge, and high-stakes influencing of program funding and agency goals, appealing to those who enjoy complex financial management in the public sector and bridging numbers with policy. It offers significant autonomy, visibility, and a chance to ensure sound fiscal health for a major agency.

All HCA employees will apply an equity lens to their work, which may include but is not limited to all analyses of core business and processes.

The Financial Services Division (FSD), in collaboration with other Health Care Authority divisions and a variety of external stakeholders and legislative partners, provides strategic financial expertise for Apple Health, Community Behavioral Health (CBH), Public Employee Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employee Benefit Board (SEBB) programs. In addition, FSD oversees the budget and compliance functions necessary to manage and monitor the single largest Washington State individual operating budget.

Functions include budget management, accounting, forecasting, professional and hospital rate setting, financial analysis, and payment/collection operations. This division maintains a close working relationship with agency program, policy, and clinical divisions to ensure financially sound implementation and monitoring of program strategies. It is also accountable to the Governor and legislature in ensuring HCA operates within its budget.

The Budget Analyst 4 reports to the Budget Unit Manager and has overall responsibility for the agency wide administrative budget and FTEs. The position performs expert-level budget and program planning analysis for HCA’s administrative budget. This position is responsible for developing and monitoring the assigned administrative budget, agency budget requests, allotment processes, fiscal notes, and assuring that processes are completed within Office of Financial Management (OFM) guidelines and meet all budgetary requirements as directed by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

In addition, this position is charged with monitoring expenditures against allotment to identify any fiscal issues for HCA management, program managers and stakeholders, and assures the fiscal information reported to OFM, legislature staff, and the federal government is accurate. This position is responsible for sound fiscal projections to ensure adequate administrative funding for overall agency and divisions.

This position is eligible to telework but is required to report on-site at least once a week. The default assigned work location of all Health Care Authority (HCA) positions – both on-site and telework eligible positions – is within the State of Washington. This position reports to Olympia, WA. Frequency of onsite work will vary based on business and operational needs.

HCA has currently suspended the ability to support out-of-state telework.

• Prepare and Manage Biennial and Supplemental Operating Budget for HCA.
• Develop and prepare Decision Packages for Maintenance Level and Performance Level packages.
• Assist and advise managers and executives in developing spending strategies.
• Monitor administrative expenditures to allotments for assigned divisions through the monthly financial analysis.
• Design, develop, and/or implement computer analytical models for projections or analysis of fiscal data.
• Communicates with representatives from other state agencies, institutional departments, and various committees regarding the implementation of state legislation and regulations and institutional policies and procedures.
• Provide expert-level assistance and advice for assigned division’s administrative budget.
• Provide budget research and review to Position Action Request (PAR).
• Provide budget research and review to Goods and Service Request (GSR).
• Work with accounting section to provide advice and research on account coding used for administrative expenditures.
• Fiscal notes coordination and preparation.

• Must be able…