APPROXIMATE ANNUAL SALARY -
$53,598.96 to
$79,719.84
PAY GRADE: 36
For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.
Budget Analysts prepare and implement budgets including the development of expenditure projections, narrative justification of programs, and detailed biennial spending plans; review and analyze budget requests and adjustments; and ensure compliance with budgetary directives, policies, regulations and limitations.
Incumbents possess a degree of knowledge and proficiency sufficient to perform work independently with little or no additional training.
This position is primarily responsible for four executive budget accounts and one non-executive budget account within the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) Fiscal Services Section. This position will prepare, implement, and monitor these budgets including the development of expenditure projections, drafting narrative justification of programs, and detailed biennial spending plans to ensure compliance with budgetary directives, policies, federal and state regulations and limitations. This position will also prepare agency small grant draws and work with federally funded accounts; will work with the Nevada Executive Budget System as well as other state systems; and interfaces with Department leadership, Administrative Services Officers, Department of Administration staff and other divisional employees requiring a candidate to have strong interpersonal skills. The incumbent must be advanced in Microsoft Excel. ***THIS RECRUITMENT MAY CLOSE AT ANY TIME BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED. QUALIFIED APPLICANTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.***
In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:
Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business or public administration, accounting, finance, economics, or closely related field and three years of professional budgeting, accounting, economic or management analysis and projection, staff analyst or auditing experience, one year of which was equivalent to a Budget Analyst I in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.
Skills Required
Microsoft Excel Advanced level
The Examination
Application Evaluation Exam
The exam will consist of an application evaluation. It is essential that applications include detailed information with time frames regarding education and experience. The most qualified applicants will be contacted by the hiring agency for interview. The hiring agency may require specific skills related testing as part of the interviewing process.
The following additional questions are part of this Recruitment
1) Do you have experience using excel with formulas, functions, and/or other features of the program? Please describe how they were used.
2) Do you have experience in a cost accounting environment with multiple funding sources? Please describe.
3) Please describe your experience preparing, managing, and maintaining a budget(s) and the approximate dollar amount of said budget(s).
