Budget Management Analyst - Human Services Agency

Note: The job announcement was amended on July 28, 2025 to change the recruitment to continuous.

The Human Services Agency is seeking highly-motivated and experienced candidates for the Budget Management Analyst. This position will allow you to further enhance your budget financial management skills, while working on a wide range of challenging financial projects and deliverables for the Human Services Agency.

Successful candidates will have experience in public administration, financial planning, analysis, reporting, budgeting, and accounting, be self-motivated, highly analytical strategic thinkers, and be detail oriented with the ability to solve business problems and deliver insights that enable timely and effective operational decision-making.

The Human Services Agency’s Budget Team in the Financial Services Division provides budget administration and oversight, prepares reports and analysis and ensure of compliance with local, state and federal requirements. Management Analysts perform a wide variety of highly complex analytical and administrative support activities and provide high-level support to Agency Directors and Managers.

The ideal candidates for this position are:

• Knowledge of public financial administration, budgeting, and project accounting. Able to manage the entire budget cycle from planning and developing to monitoring, analyzing, reporting, and forecasting.
• Knowledgeable of accounting, auditing, and financial reporting.
• Able to analyze complex problems accurately, develop practical recommendations, and take appropriate action to resolve them.
• Politically-astute strategic thinkers and planners.
• Able to analyze, moderate-to-complex budgetary, contract, accounts payable, and claiming issues and recommend actions to resolve issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise in assigned area.
• Highly skilled in the effective use of automated systems and applications, in particular Excel, to perform analyses and prepare reports.
• Able to communicate concisely and effectively, both verbally and in writing to convey financial information to a diverse audience in reports, workbooks, and instructions.
• Able to build strong effective relations and partnerships by using a collaborative style in reaching solutions to problems and accomplishing goals.
• Able to develop workbooks, track and report financial data and recommend courses of action.
• Quick learner who work well independently and as part of a team.
• Able to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment.
• Open minded, creative, and comfortable with change.
• Detail oriented while able to see a big picture.
  
  

There is currently one permanent vacancy on the Human Services Agency Budget Team. The Agency plans to fill the position at the more experienced Management Analyst level.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

Any combination of training and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. Successful Management Analysts have come from a variety of professional backgrounds. Typical ways to obtain the required qualifications could include:

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in political science, public administration/policy, business, economics, or a related field, plus three years of analyst experience; or
• A Master's degree from an accredited college or university in political science, public administration/policy, business, economics, or a related field, plus one year of analyst experience; or
• Five years of analyst experience in a public agency or nonprofit setting.
  
  

Knowledge of/Experience with:

• Principles and practices of local government administration and management.
• Development or management of project or program budgets.
• Leading and managing projects with multidisciplinary, multi-agency teams.
• Principles of financial administration, including public budgeting and reporting.
• Principles and practices of organizational analysis and management.
• Initiatives or efforts that advance diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  
  

Skill/Ability to:

• Learn the Federal, State, and local regulations and guidelines related to assigned duties.
• Analyze a wide variety of moderate-to-complex management/operational problems and make effective operational and/or procedural recommendations.
• Prepare clear and compelling staff reports and deliver presentations to elected and appointed officials.
• Use the County’s budget and accounting systems to perform financial analysis and reporting at the department and countywide levels.
• Utilize a variety of quantitative and qualitative data sources and methods to research problems and develop recommendations.
• Provide instruction and guidance to departmental staff on budget development and management, and collaborate effectively across departments to implement processes and resolve issues.
• Lead stakeholder or public engagement efforts.
• Perform the full range of the assigned duties under minimal supervision.
  
  

Application/Examination

Open and Promotional.Anyone may apply. Current County of San Mateo and County of San Mateo Superior Court of California employees with at least six months (1040 hours) of continuous service in a classified regular, probationary, extra help/limited term positions prior to the final filing date will receive five points added to their final passing score on this examination. Responses to the supplemental questions must be submitted in addition to our regular employment application form. A resume will not be accepted as a substitute for the required employment application and supplemental questionnaire.

The examination process will consist of an application screening (weight: pass/fail) based on the candidates' application and responses to the supplemental questions. Candidates who pass the application screening will be invited to a panel interview (weight: 100%).

Depending on the number of applicants, an application appraisal of education and experience may be used in place of other examinations, or further evaluation of work experience may be conducted to group applicants by level of qualification. All applicants who meet the minimum qualifications are not guaranteed advancement through any subsequent phase of the examination. All examinations will be given in San Mateo County, California, and applicants must participate at their own expense. At this time, interviews will be conducted virtually using MS Teams.

IMPORTANT: Applications for this position will only be accepted online. If you are currently on the County's website, you may click the "Apply" button. If you are not on the County's website, please go to https://jobs.smcgov.org to apply. Online applications must be received by the Human Resources Department before midnight on the final filing date.

TENTATIVE RECRUITMENT SCHEDULE

Final Filing Date: Continuous until filled

Application Screening (tentative): TBD

Combined Panel Interviews (tentative): TBD

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