Analyst, Expense Budget

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Division of Energy Management (DEM) serves as the hub for emissions reduction and energy management for the City government portfolio. DEM develops the City’s annual utility energy budget; manages the City’s utility accounts; helps our agency partners identify and pursue energy-saving opportunities at their facilities; leads energy efficiency and distributed generation projects across the City’s portfolio; and helps implement operations and maintenance best practices.

The Analyst, Expense Budget will work within DEM’s Budget Group, under the guidance of the Deputy Director, Budget. The Analyst will be charged with the following responsibilities:

1. Supporting the management of DEM’s programmatic and operational expense budgets: The person will support the management of DEM’s programmatic and operational expense budgets at a project, program, and business unit level. S/he will process purchase and encumbrance requests; track inter-agency transfers; monitor contract funding levels; process invoices and payment requests; forecast and record actual expenses at a budget code level and reconcile them against FMS; and recommend and initiate budget code modifications. The person also will maintain up-to-date DEM expense budget records.

2. Supporting the management of DEM’s revenue budgets: The person will support the management of DEM’s revenue budgets at a project, program, and business unit level. S/he will track incentive payments received from energy utilities, maintain up-to-date records of revenue received and reconcile against FMS; work with program managers to forecast outyear revenue and identify new grant opportunities applicable to DEM operations.

3. Supporting internal and external expense budget coordination: The person will support the Deputy Director, Budget in coordinating with DEM staff, DCAS FBM, OMB, client agency budget staff, and external vendors on expense budget issues as needed. S/he will help prepare for regular budget status meetings to ensure that DEM staff and management remain fully apprised of spending.

4. Assisting with the development of expense budget procedures and tools: The person will work with the Deputy Director, Budget to develop new and refined procedures and tools to streamline expense budget planning and tracking. These tools include, but are not limited to, expense budget planning and tracking spreadsheets and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

5. Supporting the development of new needs requests and cost savings initiatives: The person will support the Deputy Director, Budget in the development and submission of financial plan new needs and savings proposals. They also will help with other related requests as needed.

6. Supporting overall budget analysis and reporting: As requested, the person will perform analyses and research assignments related to DEM’s budget. In addition, the person will help perform necessary budget reporting, including, but not limited to, providing updates to DEM management and preparing Budget Hearing testimony.

1. A master's degree from an accredited college or university in economics, statistics, finance, management, business administration, public administration, public policy or related field; or

2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, including or supplemented by 24 semester credits in one or more of the course areas of economics, statistics,

finance, management, mathematics, business administration, public administration, and public policy, 12 semester credits of which must have been in economics; and one year of satisfactory full-time experience in one or more of the

fields of finance; economic, fiscal or statistical research; policy analysis; or quantitative, business, market or financial analysis. Graduate semester credits in any of the areas described in "1" above may be substituted for the undergraduate

semester credits on the basis that each 3 graduate semester credits may be substituted for 6 of the required undergraduate semester credits.

Special Note

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level II individuals must have, in addition to meeting the minimum requirements, at least one additional year of full-time experience listed in "2" above.

Special Note

To be eligible for placement in Assignment Level III individuals must have, in addition to meeting the minimum requirements, at least two additional years of full-time experience listed in "2" above.

The preferred candidate will bring the following skills and experience to this position:

• At least 3 years of City budget experience.

• Deep knowledge of FMS and high proficiency in Excel.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Strong quantitative and data analysis skills.

• Experience using Salesforce.

• Independent self-starter. Takes initiative; is tireless in follow-up; and overcomes all obstacles to complete the task at hand.

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To be considered for this position you must apply through the NYC Jobs portal. Applications submitted through Handshake will not be accepted.

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at StudentAid.gov/PSLF.

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.