About Seattle Center:
Seattle Center is the region's premier civic, arts and family gathering place in the core of our city and region, home to more than 30 arts, cultural, and entertainment organizations, family attractions, and tourist amenities. Our mission is to create exceptional events, experiences, and environments that delight and inspire the human spirit to build stronger communities. As a department of the City of Seattle, Seattle Center contributes to the quality of life for Seattle residents—and the region's economy and image as its top visitor destination.
In 2023 Seattle Center expanded its role to serve as the City’s lead department for operating Seattle’s new Waterfront Park, a series of new public spaces on Seattle’s downtown waterfront between Pioneer Square and the Seattle Aquarium. Seattle Center has built a Waterfront Operations team providing maintenance, public safety and strategic planning and oversight for the operations of the new waterfront, leveraging Seattle Center’s experience successfully managing public space. Seattle Center is working in partnership with the non-profit Friends of Waterfront Seattle, which is responsible to provide a range of recreational and cultural programming to the community in the new Waterfront Park. In our first year we have grown Seattle Center’s team by 20% to meet this new opportunity, building out a unified team to support both Seattle Center and the new Waterfront Park. That team will continue to grow in to be ready for the park’s completion in 2025.
About this position:
Seattle Center is seeking qualified candidates for a Budget Manager position. The Budget Manager provides fiscal oversight of the department’s Operating and Capital Improvement budgets and ensures fiscal strategies, controls and policies are implemented consistently. The Budget Manager also ensures revenue sources are correctly tracked, and the biennial budget is accurately prepared, monitored, and balanced. The Budget Unit provides financial analysis, budgeting, reporting, and revenue and expense forecasting to support Seattle Center operations.
We are looking for a leader with fiscal management and budgeting expertise to support the department. Seattle Center has a complex business model with a wide variety of revenue streams, blending governmental, entrepreneurial, and not-for-profit activities with a focus on entertainment. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to overall strategic budget planning for Seattle Center. This position reports to the Director of Finance and Administration.
This position will remain open until filled; we will review applications on August 23, 2024. To be considered, please submit an application on or before August 23, 2024. If your application isn't received by this date, it may not be considered. The department reserves the right to make a hire any time after the initial screening date.To be successful in this role, you have demonstrated abilities in:
• Preparing and monitoring a large and complex operating and capital improvement budget that informs and ensures fiscal accountability
• Performing complex fiscal and policy analysis
• Developing recommendations and strategies related to fiscal and budgeting policies that directly impact the department's ability to effectively fund and support various programs
• Tracking and forecasting department revenue and expenditures, bringing anomalies to the attention of program managers and division directors
• Researching and reporting on use of grant funds and ensuring compliance with grant requirements
• Developing and implementing a budget development work plan, including revenue, expense, and staffing budget adjustments
• Presenting financial information to a variety of audiences
• Operating budgeting software and expertise with data querying tools
• Working closely with accounting data to develop and interpret coding structures and develop reports
• Leading, coaching and developing employees to improve efficiencies and assure quality performance
To be effective in this job:
• You enjoy strategizing and leading the transformation of business processes in partnership with other stakeholders such as managers, employees, and the RSJ Change Team
• You are interested in assessing and resolving complex business, technical and operational issues
• You have excellent research, evaluation, and technical skills with the ability to craft and present reports and materials consisting of complex technical information to a wide variety of audiences, including non-technical staff
• You are collaborative and appreciate the value of creating and maintaining relationships You have an excellent track record of accuracy in your work
• You like a varied work environment with multiple deadlines that involves completion of significant projects and regularly advising, presenting, and defending financial policy recommendations
• You would take pride in successfully managing the full range of day-to
Location: Seattle, WA
Posted: Aug. 18, 2024, 8:37 p.m.
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