Management and Budget Specialist III, Grade N25
Apply NowCompany: Montgomery County, MD
Location: Silver Spring, MD 20902
Description:
Salary : $81,122.00 - $130,181.00 Annually
Location : 2425 Reedie Dr Wheaton MD 20902 USA
Job Type: Permanent
Job Number: 2025 - 00103
Department: Department of Recreation
Division: REC 72 Business Services
Opening Date: 02/13/2025
Closing Date: 3/13/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Exempt
About the Position
The expected salary range for this role on hire is: $81,122 - $124,937
WHO WE ARE
Montgomery County Department of Recreation is a nationally recognized and award-winning agency with a mission to provide high quality, diverse, and accessible community-based programs, activities, and services that serve the recreation and leisure needs of the Montgomery County community. The department manages 39 facilities including recreation centers, senior centers, and indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities and provides thousands of programs such as out-of-school activities, aquatics, classes, youth and adult sports programs and leagues, senior programs, and therapeutic recreation.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Management and Budget Specialist III to take the lead in developing and managing the Department's operating and capital improvement project budgets. This individual will play a key role in driving budget planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure the success and financial health of the Department's initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and critical thinking skills, attention to detail, and be able to communicate effectively both written and orally with high level executives and in public forums.
What You'll Be Doing
As the Management and Budget Specialist III, you will:
To be a successful Management and Budget Specialist, you must:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Leave Benefits
Our generous leave package starts with non-MLS permanent and term employees earning 15 days of sick leave and 15 days of annual leave in their first year, as well as up to three additional personal days each calendar year. Positions in MLS earn 35 days of paid time off each year. In addition, we offer all employees 10 paid holidays. Our leave policies adhere to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, and we provide six weeks of paid parental leave for new parents.
Retirement Benefits
All permanent and term positions are eligible for robust retirement plans. Public safety positions are eligible for a defined benefit pension plan in which they are vested after only five years. Employees in non-public safety positions can participate in retirement plans that contribute up to 12 percent of their annual salary. All employees can also participate in a supplemental retirement plan, the 457 Deferred Compensation Plan, to contribute even more to their retirement goals.
Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Forgiveness
Montgomery County employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Participants who meet all requirements may qualify for forgiveness on the remaining balance on their Direct Loans after making 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time in a qualifying public service position. To learn more about PSLF, please visit the Student Loan Repayment Benefits page. Our tuition assistance program allows you to receive up to $2,130 annually in tuition assistance to help you achieve a degree that supports your career path.
Free Mass Transit Benefit
County employees are entitled to use the RideOn Bus service for free with a valid County-employee ID. This benefit can be used any time of the day or evening, including weekends. We also offer a pre-tax flexible spending account to reduce the cost of other mass-transit options such as MARC trains and Metro.
Reduced Child and Health Care Costs
Working for Montgomery County also entitles permanent and term employees to participate in healthcare and childcare Flexible Spending Accounts. These plans allow eligible employees to save on a pretax basis for healthcare and dependent care costs incurred during the plan year.
Employee Wellbeing
We deeply care about your holistic wellness. Our award-winning wellness program, LiveWell, will support you in improving and maintaining your physical, mental, financial, social, and intellectual well-being.
Learn more about our wonderful benefits available to you once you join our team. Montgomery County Benefits
01
What is your highest level of completed education?
02
How many years of professional experience do you have, reviewing, analyzing and monitoring operating and/or capital budgets, including analysis of and reporting on management and programmatic issues having budgetary implications?
03
Part 1 - Can you describe your experience with managing budgets, especially in monitoring spending and analyzing financial data? Part 2 - How did you ensure accuracy and maintain financial health in your previous roles?
04
Part 1 - What is your experience with public budgeting or financial management in a government or large organization? Part 2 - Detail your experience with preparing, developing, and overseeing budgets in such settings.
05
Part 1 - This position involves entering operating budgets and ensuring data accuracy. Detail your experience handling large amounts of budget data entry? Part 2 - How do you ensure that data is accurate and balanced?
06
Part 1 - You will need to identify and correct invalid department-fund combinations in this role. Discuss your process for discovering discrepancies, and how you address and resolve them.Part 2 - In this role, you will collaborate with internal teams, external agencies, and other stakeholders on budgets and financial projects. How do you build and maintain strong working relationships?
07
This role requires managing multiple priorities at once. How do you approach managing several tasks with competing deadlines?
08
This role requires flexibility and creativity to solve budget-related challenges. Part 1 - Can you describe a situation where you had to be resourceful and flexible to address a budget issue? Part 2 - What solution did you come up with, and what was the result?
09
This role involves presenting budget information to high-level executives and in public forums.Part 1 - How comfortable are you with presenting complex financial data to senior leaders and in public settings? Part 2 - Please provide details on previous experience where you successfully presented financial information to executives or a broader audience.
Required Question
Location : 2425 Reedie Dr Wheaton MD 20902 USA
Job Type: Permanent
Job Number: 2025 - 00103
Department: Department of Recreation
Division: REC 72 Business Services
Opening Date: 02/13/2025
Closing Date: 3/13/2025 11:59 PM Eastern
FLSA: Exempt
About the Position
The expected salary range for this role on hire is: $81,122 - $124,937
WHO WE ARE
Montgomery County Department of Recreation is a nationally recognized and award-winning agency with a mission to provide high quality, diverse, and accessible community-based programs, activities, and services that serve the recreation and leisure needs of the Montgomery County community. The department manages 39 facilities including recreation centers, senior centers, and indoor and outdoor aquatic facilities and provides thousands of programs such as out-of-school activities, aquatics, classes, youth and adult sports programs and leagues, senior programs, and therapeutic recreation.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We are seeking a proactive and experienced Management and Budget Specialist III to take the lead in developing and managing the Department's operating and capital improvement project budgets. This individual will play a key role in driving budget planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure the success and financial health of the Department's initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical and critical thinking skills, attention to detail, and be able to communicate effectively both written and orally with high level executives and in public forums.
What You'll Be Doing
As the Management and Budget Specialist III, you will:
- Serve as the primary contact for all budget-related matters: Act as the official point of contact for budgetary inquiries, directing, managing and ensuring timely responses to correspondence regarding financial data distribution within the department.
- Enter Operating Budgets: Input all budgetary data for the Recreation Department, ensuring accuracy and proper balance each fiscal year.
- Identify and Correct Invalid Department-Fund Combinations: Review transactions and balances to ensure valid department-fund combinations and initiate necessary corrections.
- Lead the Departmental Budget Process: Guide the planning, development, and maintenance of both Operating and Capital budgets. Prepare and support the implementation of the department's annual budget cycle.
- Provide Budgetary Oversight: Monitor departmental spending, perform quarterly financial analysis, and create monthly budgetary reports for internal teams. Offer recommendations for improving financial and budgetary controls based on evaluations.
- Build and Maintain Working Relationships: Cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with the County's Office of Management and Budget, internal teams, and other agency representatives to ensure collaboration and seamless communication.
- Purchase Card Program Liaison: Oversee the Department's purchase card program, including training staff and conducting utilization reviews to ensure efficiency and compliance.
- Present Budget to High-Level Executives and in Public Forums: Prepare and present budgetary reports and financial analyses to senior executives, the County's Office of Management and Budget, and other stakeholders in public settings, ensuring transparency and clarity in communication.
To be a successful Management and Budget Specialist, you must:
- Strong knowledge of budgetary processes, financial regulations, and governmental accounting principles.
- Exhibit a deep, comprehensive understanding of financial management techniques and principles, with the proven ability to apply them effectively in a dynamic environment.
- Bring extensive experience in public budgeting and/or financial management, with a strong track record of successfully managing complex budgets and financial operations in a governmental or public sector setting.
- Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in financial data entry and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present information effectively to senior executives and in public forums.
- Ability to collaborate and build relationships with various internal and external stakeholders.
- Proficiency in budget software and Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
- Possess exceptional interpersonal, customer service, and communication skills, demonstrating the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, present financial data with clarity, and build lasting relationships with key stakeholders.
- Be highly resourceful, adaptable, and adept at managing multiple competing priorities, consistently delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.
- Be a confident and effective leader, with the ability to train, guide, and inspire teams while also comfortably leading presentations and facilitating discussions with senior executives and in public forums.
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience: Three (3) years of professional experience reviewing, analyzing and monitoring operating and/or capital budgets, including analysis of and reporting on management and programmatic issues having budgetary implications.
- Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's Degree.
- Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted.
Preferred Criteria, Interview Preferences
#ZR
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The Office of Human Resources (OHR) reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position.
Montgomery County Government(MCG) is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should email OHR at OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov. Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.
MCG also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference.
All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria or interview preference status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.
This will establish an Eligible List that may be used to fill both current and future vacancies.
If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.
Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code. Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.
Leave Benefits
Our generous leave package starts with non-MLS permanent and term employees earning 15 days of sick leave and 15 days of annual leave in their first year, as well as up to three additional personal days each calendar year. Positions in MLS earn 35 days of paid time off each year. In addition, we offer all employees 10 paid holidays. Our leave policies adhere to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, and we provide six weeks of paid parental leave for new parents.
Retirement Benefits
All permanent and term positions are eligible for robust retirement plans. Public safety positions are eligible for a defined benefit pension plan in which they are vested after only five years. Employees in non-public safety positions can participate in retirement plans that contribute up to 12 percent of their annual salary. All employees can also participate in a supplemental retirement plan, the 457 Deferred Compensation Plan, to contribute even more to their retirement goals.
Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Forgiveness
Montgomery County employees are eligible to participate in the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Participants who meet all requirements may qualify for forgiveness on the remaining balance on their Direct Loans after making 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while working full-time in a qualifying public service position. To learn more about PSLF, please visit the Student Loan Repayment Benefits page. Our tuition assistance program allows you to receive up to $2,130 annually in tuition assistance to help you achieve a degree that supports your career path.
Free Mass Transit Benefit
County employees are entitled to use the RideOn Bus service for free with a valid County-employee ID. This benefit can be used any time of the day or evening, including weekends. We also offer a pre-tax flexible spending account to reduce the cost of other mass-transit options such as MARC trains and Metro.
Reduced Child and Health Care Costs
Working for Montgomery County also entitles permanent and term employees to participate in healthcare and childcare Flexible Spending Accounts. These plans allow eligible employees to save on a pretax basis for healthcare and dependent care costs incurred during the plan year.
Employee Wellbeing
We deeply care about your holistic wellness. Our award-winning wellness program, LiveWell, will support you in improving and maintaining your physical, mental, financial, social, and intellectual well-being.
Learn more about our wonderful benefits available to you once you join our team. Montgomery County Benefits
01
What is your highest level of completed education?
- N/A
- High School/GED
- Associate's Degree
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- Juris Doctor
- Doctorate
02
How many years of professional experience do you have, reviewing, analyzing and monitoring operating and/or capital budgets, including analysis of and reporting on management and programmatic issues having budgetary implications?
- No Experience
- 1 Year of Experience
- 2 Year's Experience
- 3 Year's Experience
- 4 Year's Experience
- 5 Year's Experience
- 6 Year's Experience
- 7 Year's Experience
- 8 Year's Experience
- 9+ Year's Experience
03
Part 1 - Can you describe your experience with managing budgets, especially in monitoring spending and analyzing financial data? Part 2 - How did you ensure accuracy and maintain financial health in your previous roles?
04
Part 1 - What is your experience with public budgeting or financial management in a government or large organization? Part 2 - Detail your experience with preparing, developing, and overseeing budgets in such settings.
05
Part 1 - This position involves entering operating budgets and ensuring data accuracy. Detail your experience handling large amounts of budget data entry? Part 2 - How do you ensure that data is accurate and balanced?
06
Part 1 - You will need to identify and correct invalid department-fund combinations in this role. Discuss your process for discovering discrepancies, and how you address and resolve them.Part 2 - In this role, you will collaborate with internal teams, external agencies, and other stakeholders on budgets and financial projects. How do you build and maintain strong working relationships?
07
This role requires managing multiple priorities at once. How do you approach managing several tasks with competing deadlines?
08
This role requires flexibility and creativity to solve budget-related challenges. Part 1 - Can you describe a situation where you had to be resourceful and flexible to address a budget issue? Part 2 - What solution did you come up with, and what was the result?
09
This role involves presenting budget information to high-level executives and in public forums.Part 1 - How comfortable are you with presenting complex financial data to senior leaders and in public settings? Part 2 - Please provide details on previous experience where you successfully presented financial information to executives or a broader audience.
Required Question