Budget Analysts

Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

On the job, you would:

• Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
• Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
• Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• high school diploma/GED

Business

• accounting and economics
• management

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Engineering and Technology

• computers and electronics

Basic Skills

• thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
• using math to solve problems

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

• Attention to Detail
• Integrity
• Analytical Thinking
• Achievement/Effort
• Adaptability/Flexibility
• Cooperation

Math

• add, subtract, multiply, or divide
• choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Verbal

• communicate by speaking
• listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

• notice when problems happen
• order or arrange things