Work may be performed in any segment of the normal range of budget administration work performed by the organization including budget formulation, budget presentation-enactment, or budget execution. Ability to extract, review, and analyze numerical information such as monthly expense statements, budget requests, cost estimates in order to prepare reports and analyses. Skill in categorizing and analyzing quantitative data in order to analyze budgetary and accounting activities. Knowledge of assigned organization's structure, programs, and the budgetary and financial relationships of the organization to determine whether estimates of funding needs are appropriate or if funds are being expended according to the program's goals and objectives. The incumbent works under the general supervision of a higher- level employee who provides general instructions as to objectives, priorities, and deadlines.
Work is performed independently with assistance available on unusual problems.
Completed work is spot checked for technical soundness and conformity with agency policy and established objectives. Guidelines are not always applicable and the incumbent must use judgment in choosing, interpreting, and applying the guidelines. The work involves varied duties in the budget process. Assignments are of moderate difficulty and require the use of a number of different and unrelated analytical methods and techniques. The techniques used in following procedures are normally routine, but may involve some adaptation of established procedures.