Plans, directs, and coordinates activities relating to strategic planning, organizational risk assessment, performance measurement, long-term financial planning, operating and capital budget development, econometric forecasting, and utility rate modeling.

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 and capital 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 jointly to provide quality seamless customer service;     
• Select, train, and supervise personnel directly or through subordinate supervisors.  Establish performance standards, evaluate the performance of subordinate 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 administration or a related field with an additional five years of experience in developing fiscal policies and strategies in a medium to large scale public agency finance department, including three years’ 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 of:

• City policies 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 financial planning, 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, and the public in face-to-face, one-on-one settings, in group settings, and over a telephone;
• Produce written documents in the English language with clearly organized thoughts 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 English language.

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 may 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.