SSA Budget Lead

• Systematically evaluates financial systems, data structures, and agency formatting needs to establish robust monitoring methodologies across departmental programs. 
• Ongoing analysis of fiscal data, the position assesses operational impacts, program success, and compliance with program regulations and grant proposals. 
• Maintain fiscal integrity and oversight, agency budgets, expenditure projections, and routine financial reports for Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management, the CFO, and executive staff. 
• Prepares comprehensive budget instruction guidelines and distributes them to both central administrations and local departments to ensure standardized request submissions across the agency. 
• Establish a sound basis for future funding, the position gathers and evaluates prior-year expenditures to identify spending trends while projecting upcoming financial needs based on programmatic plans and designs. 
• Reviews administration submissions, recommends appropriate funding levels, additions, deletions, or adjustments, and actively justifies and defends all budget recommendations to Office of Budget and Finance (OBF) management. 
• Provides comprehensive administrative support, manages daily office workloads, prepares official correspondence, and oversees assigned program projects. 
• Ensure effective governance, the position actively participates in internal meetings, committees, and specialized workgroups as directed by leadership.

Applicants must meet all minimum (and selective) qualifications to be considered, and to appear on the list of people eligible for hire. Please read all requirements before applying.

Experience: Eight years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution.

Notes:

1. Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university and four years of experience in budget preparation, presentation and execution for the required experience.

2. Candidates may substitute graduate education from an accredited college or university in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, political science or public administration at a rate of 30 credit hours for five years of required experience.

3. Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer in the Budget Officer classifications or Financial Management specialty codes in the Budgeting field of work on a year-for-year basis for the required experience.

Preference will be given to applicants who possess the following preferred qualification(s). Include clear and specific information on your application regarding your qualifications.

• One year of experience with the Maryland Financial Management Information System (FMIS).
• One year of experience with the Budget Analysis and Reporting System (BARS).
• One year of experience preparing and/or overseeing a budget in a government agency.

Please make sure that you provide sufficient information on your application to show that you meet the qualifications for this recruitment. All information concerning your qualifications must be submitted by the closing date. We will not consider information submitted after this date. Successful candidates will be ranked as Best Qualified, Better Qualified, or Qualified and placed on the eligible (employment) list for at least one year.

If you are in State service and are a promotional candidate, your salary will be determined in accordance with State of Maryland guidelines.