Budget & Data Analyst

Salary and Benefits

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $5,537.00 per month to $7,500.00 per month. 

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.

For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

This position may be eligible to participate in the Cal State East Bay hybrid telecommute program subject to management approval. 

Classification

Administrative Analyst/Specialist, Exempt II

About Cal State East Bay

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online. Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

About the Position

The College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is one of the academic units at Cal State East Bay. The Budget & Data Analyst is the primary administrator of the College’s budget. Under minimal supervision from the Dean, this position exercises considerable discretion in executing the College’s plans and goals with available financial resources and errors in the process could have serious consequences for the College. This position utilizes advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to manage a large portfolio of funds across a spectrum of restrictions and interpret and apply financial policies that are often ambivalent or conflicting under a hierarchy of state, CSU and campus laws, codes, and guidelines. 

The Budget & Data Analyst position requires college-level financial analysis, resource allocation, accounting maintenance, financial reporting, expenditure and budget surveillance and corrections, record keeping, projections, and other department-level fund reporting, fiscal consultations, and year-end fiscal notifications. The portfolio of funds includes the general fund, A2E2, CERF, trust, donor, and scholarship funds in each of the 18 departments and a changing number of specific use and project funds for selected departments. The Budget & Data Analyst will access a variety of financial, human resources, faculty contracts, institutional data, accounts payable, and purchasing databases to extract applicable data necessary to conduct business. In addition, this position will maintain an extensive network of relevant campus contacts in the general areas of academic resource planning, budget, accounting, procurement, donor funds, sponsored programs, and another 20 or so specialized groups. 

The Budget & Data Analyst will serve as the focal point of contact regarding any of the College’s funds. Additional responsibilities include coordinating the training of management, faculty, and staff in the areas of budget, monitoring expenses, projections, accounting, and policies and procedures. Lastly, the Specialist must possess excellent interpersonal skills to articulate, interpret, and convey complex financial and data analysis to a non-finance audience.

Responsibilities

Under minimal supervision from the Dean, this position exercises considerable discretion in executing the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences (CLASS or “the College”) plans and goals under the operating budget. Specific duties include but are not limited to the following:

• As part of the University budget cycle, plan the necessary activities to build the components of the College operating budget using the preliminary “pencil budget”-formula based on projected student enrollment data--from the Academic Planning and Resource (ARP) depa