A professional who applies principles of accounting to analyze past and present financial operations and estimates future revenues and expenditures to prepare budget. Responsibilities include:

• Analyzes records of present and past operations, trends and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred to project future revenues and expenses, using computer.
• Documents revenues and expenditures expected and submits to management.
• Maintains budgeting systems which provide control of expenditures made to carry out activities, such as advertising and marketing, production, maintenance, or to project activities, such as construction of buildings.
• Advises management on matters, such as effective use of resources and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.
• Interprets budgets to management.
• May develop and install manual or computer-based budgeting system.
• May assist in financial analysis of legislative projects to develop capital improvement budget and be designated Program Analyst.
• May assist communities to develop budget and efficient use of funds and be designated Public Finance Specialist