Budget Analysts

Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

On the job, you would:

• Summarize budgets and submit recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.
• Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
• Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations.

Education

• bachelor's degree
• associate's degree

Business

• accounting and economics
• management

Math and Science

• arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Arts and Humanities

• English language

Safety and Government

• law and government

Basic Skills

• listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
• reading work related information

Problem Solving

• noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

• thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
• figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Conventional

People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

• Integrity
• Attention to Detail
• Analytical Thinking
• Dependability
• Cooperation
• Stress Tolerance

Math

• add, subtract, multiply, or divide
• choose the right type of math to solve a problem

Verbal

• listen and understand what people say
• read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

• make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
• use rules to solve problems