Budget Manager

Title: Budget Manager

Location: Denver United States

Job Description:

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

A hybrid work environment based on the needs of the Behavioral Health Administration.  

Hybrid schedule is subject to change.

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About this Unit:

The fiscal division contains the contracts, procurement, grants management, budget, and accounting functions for the BHA. The unit collaborates across the BHA and external stakeholders to ensure fiscal compliance with policies and regulations as well as lead the BHA's financial strategy through budgeting and payment reform. The budget unit is responsible for collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, program/grant- level budgeting, reporting, and analysis, and legislative policy and financial planning and analysis (including the annual budget submission for the BHA).

About this Position:

The position is located within the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS), Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) which leads and promotes the State's behavioral health priorities, ensures that behavioral health services respond to the changing needs of communities, monitors State and local data, and continuously evaluates State efforts. In collaboration with other state agencies, the BHA is accountable for the delivery of behavioral health services in Colorado. It bestows a streamlined and efficient government approach to support quality care while minimizing the burden to providers so that they can focus on service delivery. The BHA is responsible for behavioral health policy development and effective collaboration with cross-sector partners working in and around the behavioral health system and along the continuum from prevention to treatment and recovery. The BHA works in partnership with State agencies to reduce bureaucracy and fragmentation.

Summary of Duties:

• Provide budget analysis, formulation presentation, implementation, monitoring and execution support services for the Behavioral Health Administration. 
• Analyze and review proposed legislation and perform economic and fiscal analysis to assess the impact of legislation, ballot initiatives, or other external actions impacting the Behavioral Health Administration.  
• Analyze and review budget execution practices in the various program areas and assist fiscal and program staff to develop more efficient and/or effective systems and methods to improve financial information, management reporting, and budget projections.  Identify potential areas to improve BHA service provision through financial policy or programmatic change.  
• Assist fiscal staff, program managers, the Finance Director and the Chief Financial Officer in the development of analyses to justify and support decision items, supplementals and other budget initiatives or change requests.
• Monitor expenditures and provide guidance and technical assistance to BHA program managers and program assistants on day-to-day management of resources and budget execution reporting requirements.  
• Analyze and track BHA personal services appropriations, FTE, expenditures, personal services contracts, Human Resource action requests and provide monthly budget execution reports to the Finance BHA, Chief Financial Officer, BHA program managers and BHA Directors.
• Work with Accounting, and other State Agencies, to coordinate the enhancement of compliance monitoring and accounting/BHA processes with accounting system, CORE, and assist with staff training for the fiscal team as needed.  
• Analyze and review budget execution practices in the various program areas and assist program staff to develop more efficient and/or effective systems and methods to improve financial information, management reporting, and budget projections.  
• Identify potential areas to improve BHA service provision through financial policy or programmatic change.

Minimum Qualifications:  

Experience:

• Six (6) years experience in one, or a combination, of the following areas:

• Budget management in a government or a nonprofit entity that works with any level of government;

• Federal, State, or local grant management and/or reporting; 

• Budget analyst or specialist in government

• And Two (2) years experience in supervision, including staff hiring, performance management, staff effectiveness, professional development, and building team culture, including the development of personal and team-based long- and short-term goals

• Knowledge of:

• State statutes, rules and regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines

• Colorado's budget and legislative process, state finances, administration and allocation of funds, budget planning and management 

• Standard office practices, procedures, software, and equipment, including the use of personal computers, telephones, Zoom, and Microsoft Office 

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to read and interpret new and existing statutes to identify the impact of proposed legislation on the department
• Experience developing and managing budgets
• Excellent reasoning, investigative, analytical, and problem-solving ability
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with internal/external partners
• Ability to effectively communicate complex information to a wide variety of audiences
• Ability to develop and manage processes, establishing workflows while maximizing transparency and efficiencies 
• Highest work/personal ethics and integrity 
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel.
• Advanced in Excel formulas and tables

Substitutions:  

• Additional appropriate experience will substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.

• Current, valid licensure as a CPA by the Colorado Board of Accountancy will substitute for the degree requirement and two (2) years of the required experience.

Note: If you are using an educational substitution, you must attach unofficial/official transcripts to your application.

Employment history is calculated on a full-time basis (40/hours per week). Part-time employment is calculated on a pro-rated basis to determine qualifications. Be sure your application specifically addresses your qualifications, experience, work products, and accomplishments as they relate to the position and minimum requirements.

Conditions of Employment:

• Must be willing to submit to a background check
• Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position.  Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.

Appeal Rights:

If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.  An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department's action.  For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules

How to Apply

The Assessment Process

 

For additional recruiting questions, please contact cindy.kong@state.co.us

About Us: 

If your goal is to build a career that makes a difference, consider joining the dedicated people of the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS). Our professionals strive to design and deliver high quality human and health services that improve the safety, independence, and well-being of the people of Colorado. In addition to a great location and rewarding and meaningful work, we offer:

• Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan www.copera.org plus 401(k) and 457 plans

• Medical and dental health plans

• Employer supplemented Health Savings Account

• Paid life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• 11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave

• BenefitHub state employee discount program

• Employee Wellness program MotivateMe

• Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more

• Remote work arrangements for eligible positions

• Some positions may qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/dhr/student-loan-forgiveness-programs.

Our Values:

We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.

Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.

We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.

Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.

We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.

Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.  

ADAA Accommodations: CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals.  As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job function where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship.  If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying and interviewing for this [position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us, or call 1-800-929-0791.

~THE STATE OF COLORADO IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER~

 

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