Senior Budgeting Analyst or Budgeting Analyst Trainee 1 / 2 (NY HELPS) - Long Island Region

Senior Budgeting Analyst

Under the general direction of the Finance Director, this Senior Budgeting Analyst will perform the following duties :

• Ensure that all 25 regional revenue-generating parks and cost centers and 33 attendance-reporting parks report their revenue to the Parks Operations and Revenue Tracking System (PORTS) and their attendance to the Albany attendance application accurately and on time.
• Facilitate entry of park revenue in PORTS if outside of 7-day entry deadline, and any corrections that need to be made.
• Enter the revenue from the permits department into PORTS.
• Deposit police unclaimed funds and Land Management contract license fees and entering it into PORTS.
• Route electricity and refuse fees from Land Management contracts and concessionaires into the regional exchange account and processing refunds of appropriation of those funds.
• Verify that the revenue from concessions license fee deposits imports accurately into PORTS.
• Generate revenue and attendance reports for the region.
• Assist parks with equipment and programming for the Aspira, ParkHub, and Ventek, and ForeUp point-of-sale systems.
• Help Albany Revenue resolve bank reconciliation discrepancies, credit card chargebacks, and credit card charge importation errors into PORTS from Aspira, ParkHub and Ventek.
• Assist the Albany Pass Programs department with importation errors into Parks Store Manager from Aspira.
• Process and track refunds of appropriation for both staffing and non-personal service spending.
• Order, distribute, collect and return seasonal tour funds for Parks.
• Track the armored courier contract receiving tickets for payment.
• Compile the annual operating schedules of the parks and parks' annual fee schedule change requests.
• Regional auditing of parks cash counts, floor checks, golf and camping checks, concession inspections.
• Bill Captree boatmen berth electricity, Brentwood ballfield lights electricity, Jones Beach cell tower electricity, and housing payments.
• Facilitate bank supplies orders for region.
• Supervise and train staff.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Permanent Competitive Appointment : To be considered for permanent appointment, candidates must be reachable on the current Civil Service eligible list or be eligible for reassignment or transfer in accordance with Civil Service Law. This title is part of the New York Hiring for Emergency Limited Placement Statewide Program (NY HELPS).

The qualifications are :

Additional Salary Information

Depending on each applicant's experience and / or current salary if already employed by New York State, the appointment may be made to the Budgeting Analyst Trainee 1, Budgeting Analyst Trainee 2, or the Senior Budgeting Analyst titles. Included below is a breakdown of the salary at each level of the traineeship.

Location Pay : The hiring rate will be the sum of the statutory hiring rate for PEF Grade 18 ($66,951) and the Downstate Adjustment ($4,000). The job rate will be the sum of the statutory job rate ($85,138) and the Downstate Adjustment ($4,000).

Benefits : Generous benefits package, worth approximately 65% of salary, including :

To learn more about our benefits, visit : https : / / parks.ny.gov / employment / benefits.aspx

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