Budget & Finance Analyst Senior

Date Opened: Monday, July 14, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

Salary: $68,455.00 - $85,569.00 Commensurate with Experience

SUMMARY

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Budget & Finance Analyst Senior to provide expertise in procurement, financial services, and accounting operations. Reporting directly to the CMPD Procurement Officer, this position collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in financial and procurement processes across the department.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as Departmental Procurement Card (P-Card) Accountant by reviewing and verifying transactions, ensuring compliance with policy, completing all allocation reviews before month-end deadline, and maintaining the P-Card holder database.
• Serves as the backup to the department’s Procurement Officer, providing support in contract administration, procurement consultation, compliance monitoring, financial analysis, and reporting to ensure alignment with statutory guidelines, departmental policies, and best business practices.
• Track and monitor service and maintenance agreements ensuring timely execution, accurate documentation, and compliance with policies.
• Assist in document review, development of procurement scopes, preparation of internal documents, and facilitate informal solicitation processes.
• Coordinate contract modifications, adjustments, and change orders.
• Perform a range of financial services and procurement tasks including but not limited to purchase requisitions, analyze and reconcile invoices, investigate discrepancies, and provide resolution using effective research methodologies.
• Collaborate on forecasting purchasing needs, tracking expenditures, and analyzing open encumbrances to support effective financial management.
• Conduct internal audits of procurement and financial transactions to ensure compliance and efficiency.
• Prepare accurate, concise, and timely financial and administrative reports.
• Deliver training on procurement and financial systems and processes to staff as needed.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree with five (5) years of relevant work experience.
• OR an equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field with minimum three (3) years of relevant experience.
• Coursework or certification in accounting, procurement, or business administration.
• Professional certifications such as CLGPO, CPPO, CPPB desirable.
• Experience in governmental procurement and finance strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of local, state, and federal procurement and contracting methodologies.
• Proven ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• Knowledge of governmental finance and accounting principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams) with experience using financial and procurement systems, including ERP platforms (e.g. Workday), for procurement, accounts payable research and resolution, and reporting.
• Understanding of vendor management principles with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with vendors and service providers.
• Exceptional organizational, analytical, and time-management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment and maintain effective working relationships across multiple teams, departments and organizational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to perform effectively and maintain high productivity in a fast- paced work environment.
• Demonstrate customer service orientation, initiative and responsiveness

ADA and Other Requirements:

Positions in this class typically require grasping, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.

Physical Requirements:

• Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for sitting, standing, climbing, or walking for extended periods of time
• Light to moderate lifting and carrying; some crouching, stooping, squatting, crawling, reaching, pushing, and pulling when performing tasks
• Ability to see, hear, and communicate information effectively

Sensory Requirements: