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Budget analyst with 6 years in higher education finance, managing budget development, monitoring, and forecasting for 6 academic and administrative units with a combined $210M annual budget at a public university. Holds a 1.2% average forecast variance across 3 fiscal years, identified $4.6M in reallocated funds through position and spending analysis, and cut the annual budget build from 11 weeks to 6. Gives unit leaders a budget they understand and a forecast they can plan against.
Coursework in Managerial Accounting, Public Sector Finance, Financial Analysis, and Statistics.
Also completed a higher education budgeting certificate and an advanced Excel modelling course in 2022.
- Manage budget development, monitoring, and forecasting for 6 units with a combined $210M annual budget and 1,400 funded positions.
- Hold a 1.2% average forecast variance at year end across 3 fiscal years against a division standard of 3%.
- Identified $4.6M in reallocated funds through vacant position and recurring underspend analysis across 3 budget cycles.
- Coordinated the annual budget build for 3 colleges with a combined $95M budget, cutting the cycle from 11 weeks to 6 through a standard template and a shared calendar.
- Processed about 600 budget transfers a year with a 99.5% accuracy rate at audit.
- Built the monthly budget-to-actual report used by 40 department chairs, replacing 3 separate spreadsheets.
- Reconciled about 200 grant accounts a month across a 6-month internship with 0 unresolved variances at year end.
- Built a salary projection model for 900 positions that replaced a manual calculation.
- Received a full-time offer at the end of the 6-month internship based on the projection model.
Position Budget Analysis. Built a position-level analysis across 1,400 funded positions comparing budgeted salaries, actual incumbents, and vacancy duration, which found $2.9M in positions vacant over 18 months and led to a reallocation of $4.6M across 3 cycles toward student services and deferred maintenance.
Forecast Model. Built a quarterly forecast model with salary projections by position, encumbrance-based spending patterns, and revenue driven by enrolment, presented to 6 unit leaders each quarter, which produced a 1.2% average year-end variance and let 2 units commit to hires 6 months earlier than before.
Budget Build Redesign. Redesigned the annual budget build at a previous employer with a standard template, a 6-week calendar with 3 checkpoints, and a training session for 40 department chairs, which cut the cycle from 11 weeks to 6 and cut revisions after submission from about 90 to 20.
- Member of a national higher education business officers association, attending an annual conference and 4 webinars a year.
- Volunteer treasurer for a neighbourhood association with a $60,000 annual budget.
- Mentor 2 accounting students a year through a university alumni programme.
- Lead the quarterly forecast review with 6 unit leaders and the associate vice president for finance.
- Trained 60 department administrators on budget monitoring and transfer procedures across 3 years.
- Supervise 1 budget coordinator and coordinate a budget analyst working group of 8 across the university.

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