Job Description
As Budget Planning and Operations Analyst, you serve as budget liaison to assigned administrative/Vice President (“VP”) units or academic units, supporting chief business officers through ASU’s internal annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and mid-year CFO financial review processes. You contribute to critical external budget production and reporting, preparing key deliverables throughout the fiscal year for the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC), and Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting (OSPB).
This position may report to the Director, Budget Planning and Operations (BPO) or to a senior subordinate to the Director as functionally required. This role provides an opportunity for a hybrid work schedule, currently set at 60% in-office and 40% remote.
Essential Duties
Internal budget liaison
You are the primary relationship manager and point of contact in OPB for your assigned administrative/VP area budget units. In support of both your budget units and the CFO, you perform work to support central resource planning, annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and mid-year CFO financial review processes. You prepare cost and budget unit variance analyses, develop revenue and expense forecasts, analyze trends, and compile commitment analyses.
Supporting external budget reporting
You construct financial supporting schedules to facilitate ASU’s annual operating budget and tuition proposal submissions to ABOR as well as ASU’s legislative budget request submission to the State of Arizona.
