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CITY OF LUBBOCK Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in Lubbock, Texas

Summary

Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to strategic planning, organizationalrisk assessment, performance measurement, long-term financial planning, Operating and capital budget development, econometric forecasting, and utility ratemodeling.

Essential Functions
  • Direct, plan and coordinate development of strategic plans through comprehensive organization-wide risk assessment, financial plans, econometric forecasts, and utility rate models;
  • Direct, plan and coordinate development and monitoring of operating andcapital projects budgets;
  • Make presentations to the City Council and/or the public as the need arises;
  • Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turn-around times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointlyto provide quality seamless customer service;
  • Select, train, and supervise personnel directly or through subordinatesupervisors. Establish performance standards, evaluate the performance ofsubordinate staff, and establish work priorities, goals, objectives, and schedules;
  • Develop and administer public relations effort to inform citizens or internal staff of services provided, and promote effective citizen and staff relations;
  • Perform related duties as required.
Qualifications

Completion of a master's degree in business administration, public administrationor a related field with an additional fiveyears of experience in developing fiscal policies and strategies in a medium to large scale public agency finance department, including threeyears experience in econometric and statistical forecasting and municipal budgeting in a leadership role; or any combination of relevant education and experience which provides the following:

Valid Current Driver's License

Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of:

  • Citypolicies related to finance and budgeting;
  • Municipal finance criteria, including Government Finance Officer Association's (GFOA) Best Practices;
  • Expectations of bond rating agencies;
  • Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) requirements;
  • Municipal public policy;
  • Debt administration principles and practices;
  • Capital planning and long-term financial planning;
  • Coordination of operating and capital budgets with fiscal policy;
  • Utility rate models and long-term planning.

Ability to:

  • Plan, organize, and direct activities of strategic planning, organizationalrisk assessment, performance measurement, long-term financialplanning, development of operating and capital budgets, econometric forecasting and utility rate modeling;
  • Exercise good judgment;
  • Perform a broad range of supervisory responsibilities over others;
  • Communicate orally in the English language with customers, clients, andthe public in face-to-face, one-on-one settings, in group settings, and overa telephone;
  • Produce written documents in the English language with clearly organizedthoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation, and grammar;
  • Work cooperatively with others;
  • Work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others;
  • Comprehend and make inferences from written material in the Englishlanguage.

Physical Requirements:

  • Frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds.
  • Occasionally flex upper trunk forward at the waist and partially at the knees.
  • Place arms above, at, or below shoulder height.
  • Frequently push and pull objects.

Application must be submitted online at

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/lubbock

.Jobs close at 5:00 p.m. on the closing date posted on the City website. For a complete list of job openings with the City of Lubbock please visit

www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Lubbock

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