Business Analyst

Responsiblties:

• Assist departments by analyzing current processes, identify areas of improvement, and propose solutions to ensure alignment with City initiatives and strategic goals.
• Analyzes, prepares, and monitors departmental capital and operating budgets.
• Ability to analyze large operating and capital investment requests and establish which items are deserving of business case reviews.
• Business case management in collaboration with directors, managers, and supervisors across all city departments.
• Ensures proper allocation of collected funds and reconciles financial reports.
• Establishes relevant KPIs and creates and distributes executive level reporting packages designed to provide proactive information to City leadership on a regular and consistent basis.
• Prepares, analyzes, and tracks purchase requisitions.
• Ensures all external reporting needs, deadlines, and associated compliance requirements are being met, including but not limited to grants, legal contracts, etc.
• Creates process and communication optimization for the department to align with project goals such as AP projects, new department programs that require administrative support, etc.
• Auditing of department transactions, revenues, personnel and payroll requirements, and relevant reporting needs for compliance with city code, state statutes, public auditing requirements, and federal requirements.
• Creation and continuous improvement in establishing standard operating procedures for budgeting, accounting and auditing, general ledger management and usage, process optimization, and contract management.
• Position control management and partnering with human resources and payroll teams to establish best practices for efficiency of employee profile management.
• Ability to collaborate with team members across multiple functions for the review or creation of items such as RFPs, grant submissions, new financial or operational reports, or other relevant strategic analytics.
• Completion and/or review of city-wide grants, including ability to ensure compliance with associated local, state and federal statutory requirements.
• Contribute to ongoing process improvements and efficiency initiatives.
• Prepares various reports summarizing project, study, or program data; analyzes related data and makes recommendations based on findings.

Key Skills:

• Communication skills. 
• Technical skills. 
• Listening skills. 
• Negotiation and persuasion skills. 
• Problem-solving skills. 
• Critical thinking skills. .
• Decision-making skills.
• Research skills.