Budget & Finance Specialist

City Of Charlotte

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Charlotte, VT - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 26 - 29
Posted on: 7 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Date Opened: Wednesday April:00 AM

Close Date: Wednesday April:00 AM

Department: Charlotte Water Department

Salary: $24.00 - $29.81 Commensurate with Experience

Welcome to the City of Charlotte

Charlotte is Americas 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

Charlottes local government with more than 9000 employees and a total budget of $3.65 billion budget works hard to ensure that the community will be a winning city for everyone a truly remarkable place to live work learn and play.

Charlotte Water is an enterprise department of the City of Charlotte and one of the largest public water and sewer service providers in the southeast with over 330000 customer accounts and over 1100 employees. Our service area includes the City of Charlotte Mecklenburg County and the towns of Huntersville Cornelius Davidson Mint Hill Matthews and Pineville. Charlotte Waters FY 26 budget is $651 million and a five-year capital program of $2.2.28 billion. We enjoy the highest credit ratings from Moodys and S&P Global as a result of sound financial planning and management and strong support from our City Council. We value competent skilled candidates with a customer service focus to work in a team environment.

Salary:

The salary for this position is $26.83 - $29.80 commensuration with experience.

JOB SUMMARY:

This position provides administrative support for major administrative functions and processes for the budget area within the Field Operations Division. Work involves researching and analyzing data; preparing documents and reports; supporting budget inventory purchasing and invoicing processes; maintaining databases; training programs; maintaining related files; and providing customer service.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

  • Creates requisitions for purchase of goods or services in Workday
  • Performs change orders and ensure purchase orders have sufficient balances.
  • Monitors invoices in Workday and resolves discrepancies daily
  • Oversees P-Card program for Field Operations by monitoring reconciliation status ensuring consistent coding and acting as a first-level approver.
  • Works close with Budget & Finance Analyst Sr. and assists with coordination of budget and procurement activities.
  • Serves as point of contact for Field Operations vendors and troubleshoots vendor invoicing issues.
  • Provides excellent customer service to internal and external customers.
  • Supports department inventory activities and participates in bi-annual inventory audits.
  • Performs special assignments for management; participates in special projects and prepares various Workday reports as requested.
  • Performs research of information; enters data; extracts data for analysis; and prepares maintains and produces lists tables and reports as requested.
  • Provides essential training in Workday; keeps up to date on changes to policies and procedures; disseminates applicable information to employees.
  • Performs other related job duties as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS TO PERFORM WORK:

  • High school diploma or GED with one year of related experience with public administration involving large field staff and support services orAssociate degree or 2-year college degree with related field.
  • Prefer two (2) years of related work experience with public administration involving large field staff and support services.

Licenses Certifications or Registrations:

  • Requires valid drivers license.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge of Workday Microsoft Office including Outlook Excel Teams and any other software used within assigned area.
  • Knowledge of word processing spreadsheet and database programs.
  • Knowledge of budget and accounting.
  • Knowledge of the procurement process.
  • Knowledge of customer service.
  • Skill in communicating both verbally and in writing.
  • Skill in establishing interpersonal effective working relationships.
  • Ability to work on multiple tasks within a team atmosphere.
  • Ability to plan direct and oversee the work of others as assigned.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The work is sedentary work and requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Additionally the following physical abilities are required: manual dexterity reaching speaking and talking.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Work is performed in a work environment that may periodically have unpredicted requirements or demands. Work requires being flexible in work schedule and being able to work occasional overtime if approved.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

This job description is not intended to be and should not be construed as an inclusive list of all the responsibilities skills or working conditions associated with the position. While it is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements management reserves the right to modify add or remove duties and assign other duties at any time. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were written out in this job description.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

The Citys Background Check Policy requires background checks to be conducted on final internal or external candidate(s) applying for any position with the City of Charlotte. The type of information that will be collected as part of a background check includes but is not limited to: reference checks social security verification education verification criminal conviction record check and if applicable a credit history check sex offender registry and motor vehicle records check.

Background checks must be in compliance with all federal and state statutes such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The checks must be consistent with the guidelines set forth by these laws requiring organizations to obtain a candidates written authorization before obtaining a criminal background report motor vehicle records check or credit report; and to properly store and dispose of information derived from such reports.

Final candidates must pass a pre-employment drug-screening test and physical examination. During the selection process candidates may be asked to take a skills test and/or participate in other assessments.

The City of Charlotte is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race religion color sex national origin marital status age disability sexual orientation political affiliation or on the basis of actual or perceived gender as expressed through dress appearance or behavior.


Our culture is to serve the community honorably.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online.

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job.

You are welcome to visit the City of Charlotte Human Resources Department lobby where self-service application kiosks are available. They are located in our office at 700 East 4th Street Suite 200 Charlotte NC 28202. We are open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST) excluding official City holidays.

For questions about your application or the hiring process please email

The City of Charlotte is committed to making our services and programs accessible to all. Upon request auxiliary aids written materials in alternate formats language access and other reasonable accommodations or modifications will be provided. To make a request please fill out the Innovation & Technology ADA request form or call 704.336.4120.

BENEEFITS

The City of Charlotte provides a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees.

Clickhereto learn more about the City of Charlottes benefits.

The City of Charlotte is a drug and alcohol-free workplace.


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Date Opened: Wednesday April:00 AM Close Date: Wednesday April:00 AM Department: Charlotte Water Department Salary: $24.00 - $29.81 Commensurate with Experience Welcome to the City of Charlotte Charlotte is Americas Queen City opening her arms to a diverse and inclusive community of residents bu...
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