Description
Examine and evaluate agency budget requests and execution reports for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with statutes and policy. Recommend funding levels, process apportionments and adjustments, and prepare analyses and guidance for executive and legislative decision-makers.
- • Analyze agency budget execution and accounting reports to enforce expenditure controls and compliance.
- • Prepare and coordinate regular and special budget analyses and reports for decision-makers.
- • Consult with agency budget officers to ensure adjustments reflect approved program changes.
- • Align funding requests with statutory appropriations, apportionments, and contingency authorities.
- • Provide guidance and technical assistance on cost analysis, allocations, and budget formulation.
- • Summarize requests and recommend approval, modification, or denial of funding.
- • Identify opportunities to improve program efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- • Review operating plans to assess trends, risks, and fiscal impacts on budget needs.
- • Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, legality, and policy compliance.
- • Conduct cost-benefit and performance analyses to evaluate proposals and alternatives.
- • Draft, interpret, and communicate budget instructions, policies, and schedules to agencies.
- • Review and process apportionments, allotments, reprogramming, and transfer requests.
- • Prepare briefing and testimony materials and present recommendations to budget leadership and legislative staff.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
