Back Budget Analyst/Senior Budget Analyst (Budget and Resource Management) - SPRAI

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The Strategy, Policy and Review Department seeks a dynamic and highly motivated Budget Analyst with strong quantitative and analytical skills. The selected candidates will help manage the department's budget and financial resources, as well as assist in annual AF and budget formulation exercises. She/He will also contribute to monitoring the monthly time reporting exercise, and administrative budget execution and external-financed activities.

The tasks and duties will include:

• Contributing to the preparation of SPR’s medium-term internally and externally financed budgets by preparing various data analyses and visualizations.
• Monitoring SPR’s budget execution by maintaining various department's spreadsheets for travel, seminar, and discretionary expenditure, preparing accounts reconciliations on a regular basis.
• Preparing SPR’s dashboard on budget, work stress and diversity related indicators.
• Forecasting SPR’s travel and other discretionary expenditures for the monthly monitoring dashboard and various budget submissions.
• Assisting SPR’s seminar coordinators with seminar procedures, including, but not limited to, entering travel authorizations and processing expense claims.
• Reviewing and approving SPR’s time reporting, monitoring SPR’s work stress indicators, conducting analytical work on SPR's key output areas and costing of SPR’s work programs.
• Representing SPR’s budget team to liaise with other Fund departments and participate in interdepartmental working groups.
• Maintaining and updating SPR’s budget and resource management website.
• Assist SPR’s HR team with their data needs.

  Qualifications:

  Educational development, typically acquired by the completion of a university degree in business, finance, accounting, or a related field is required. Experience with dept budget processes and practices would be a plus. The selected candidates should possess excellent written and oral communication skills, and is proficient in standard MS office applications, and the Fund’s enterprise IT systems (Workday, PeopleSoft HR and Financials, TM1 and CDMAP); Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is a must. The ability to use a range of visual presentation tools, such as MS Excel charts, Tableau, Keynote, is desired. In addition, the following competencies are critical to the position:

  • Applying attention to detail and maintaining accurate records
  • Sound organizational and data management skills, and ability to handle several responsibilities and work assignments under tight time constraints.
  • Proven ability to work independently, as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
  • Ability to organize own work under competing priorities, resourcefulness in seeking workable solutions, as well as initiative and a drive for results.

    Only candidates who are currently residing in the Washington DC metro area will be considered.

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    A regular staff member who is selected to fill the vacancy will maintain their open-ended status. If the selected candidate is a contractual employee, they will be offered a Term staff appointment. Staff members already on a term appointment will continue their current term but may receive an extension provided that their current term appointment has not already been extended.

    It is expected that the position will be filled by a qualified candidate from within the department.

    It is envisioned that while the position is advertised at the full grade band, it will be filled at the lower level.

    Department:SPRAI Strategy, Policy, and Review Dept. Immediate Office

    Hiring For: A06, A07, A08

    The IMF is committed to achieving a diverse staff, including age, creed, culture, disability, educational background, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, nationality, race, religion and beliefs, and sexual orientation. We welcome requests for reasonable accommodations for disabilities during the selection process.