Budget & Finance Analyst Senior

Date Opened: Thursday, November 06, 2025 12:00 AM

Close Date: Sunday, November 23, 2025 12:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

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

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is America’s Queen City, opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents, businesses and visitors alike. Here you will find a safe, family-oriented city where people work together to help everyone thrive. The mission of the City of Charlotte is to deliver quality public services and promote the safety, health, and quality of life for all residents.

Our guiding principles include:

• Attracting and retaining a skilled and diverse workforce

• Valuing teamwork, openness, accountability, productivity, and employee development

• Providing all customers with courteous, responsive, accessible, and seamless quality services

• Taking initiative to identify, analyze, and solve problems

• Collaborating with stakeholders to make informed decisions

SUMMARY

This position performs budgetary, accounting and general financial analysis for assigned areas. Work involves handling financial duties and responsibilities associated with budgetary and accounting roles; performing related business, financial, budgetary, cost accounting; and carrying out auditing activities. This position performs analytical tasks of moderate complexity and scope.

The salary for this position is $77,012 to $85,568 commensurate with experience.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:        

• Monitors the budget to ensure that funding is in place for all approved projects; reviews and processes payment requests and other financial transactions; and maintains appropriate records and files. 

• Assists with budget development, assists the operating budget and year-beginning and year-end processes; provides responses to audits; and develops ad hoc reports when requested.

• Process transactions in the budget/financial system as required

• Serves as a Procurement Card Program Manager for the department, reviews department transactions, and ensures accuracy before submittal.

• Deposits and collects cash/checks

• Manages department capital equipment list according to shifts in operating needs and equipment requests; monitors capital equipment budget as requests are processed.

• Analyzes account balances in various budgetary accounts; restructures financial data to conform to specific reporting requirements; and prepares progress reports and statements of financial condition.

• Performs informal, internal audits of financial and related areas.

• Prepares clear and concise administrative and financial reports as scheduled and as needed.

• Coordinates with department divisions, City Finance, and other departments to improve processes and resolve problems; identifies, recommends, and implements changes to strengthen and improve administrative procedures.

• Ensures historical reference by documenting procedures and decisions, maintaining required documentation, and providing documents as necessary.

• Serves as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Security Liaison; coordinates and submits changes to the ERP system.

• Maintains and monitors purchase orders and contracts.

• Provides training in support of financial related activities/processes.

• Performs other related job duties as assigned with professionalism and tact.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

• High School Graduate or Equivalent

• Five (5) yrs. of directly related professional work experience performing financial functions and demonstrating analytical and quantitative skills preferably in a public sector setting.

OR

• Two Year College Degree from an accredited school in business administration, accounting, public administration, or a directly related field.

• Five (5) years of directly related professional work experience performing financial functions and demonstrating analytical and quantitative skills preferably in a public sector setting.

OR

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, public administration, or a closely related field from an accredited school.

• One (1) year of directly related professional work experience performing financial functions and demonstrating analytical and quantitative skills preferably in a public sector setting.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degre