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Financial Specialist, Senior – Budget Analyst

Posting Begin Date: 2025/11/25

Posting End Date: 2025/12/16

Category: Business

Sub Category: Accounting and Finance

Work Type: Full Time

Minimum Salary: 31.16

Maximum Salary: 31.16

Pay Rate Type: Hourly

Description

Idaho Department of Lands

The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) is seeking a full-time Financial Specialist, Senior - Budget Analyst. This position will be located at our Boise Staff Office in Boise, ID.

Applications will be accepted by 4:59 PM MST on the posting end date.

Description

To perform a full range of advanced professional financial duties requiring the application of accounting and/or auditing theory, principles, and practices; perform related work.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include annual budget preparation, budget distribution, financial management support, preparing expenditure adjustments, analyzing and researching G/L account activity, preparing G/L reconciliations, updating monthly budget to actual reports, ensuring sufficient budget for HR compensation requests, updating and maintaining our FTE report, and oversight of federal grants and reporting.

Minimum Qualifications

Good knowledge of:

+ Accounting principles and practices

Experience:

+ Developing and preparing financial documents

+ Using a personal computer to develop, analyze, and report on financial data

+ Analyzing financial activities and recommending management action

Desired Qualifications

+ Experience developing and preparing financial documents

+ Analyzing large quantities of financial data and recommending management action

+ Developing a budget and preparing financial reports

+ Knowledge of state budget processes preferred

+ Troubleshooting automated system changes, testing automated system changes, including using data extraction tools and methods for analysis, sampling, testing and reporting

+ Documenting business processes

+ Highly proficient in Excel with experience in advanced Excel functions and data manipulation/analysis (VLOOKUP, SUMIF, conditional formatting, pivot tables, etc.)

Benefits:

The State of Idaho offers a robust total compensation package, including medical, vision, and dental insurance; PERSI retirement benefits; paid sick, vacation, and parental leave; and 11 paid holidays per year. For additional information related to benefits and/or State programs, please visit https://dhr.idaho.gov/StateEmployees/Benefits.html.*

EEO/ADA/Veteran:

The State of Idaho is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, political affiliation or belief, sex, national origin, genetics, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws.

The State of Idaho is committed to access and reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities, auxiliary aids and services are available upon request. If you require an accommodation at any step in our recruitment process, you are encouraged to contact (208) 334-2263 (TTY/TTD: 711), or email [email protected].

Preference may be given to veterans who qualify under state and federal laws and regulations.

About the Idaho Department of Lands:

Become part of an organization where you will work with dedicated people who are committed and skilled in managing and protecting Idaho's natural resources.

The Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) believes in its employees and values stewardship, service, accountability and cohesiveness. Our goals emphasize our people and processes, financial stewardship, and customer focus. We strive for a culture in which leadership equips, entrusts and expects employees to make decisions in fulfillment of our mission. View our Strategic Plan here.

Under the direction of the Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners (https://www.idl.idaho.gov/about-us/land-board/) , IDL manages more than 2.5 million acres of state endowment trust land under a constitutional mandate to produce maximum long-term financial returns for public schools and several other State of Idaho institutions. Leases and other contracts are used to authorize revenue generating activities such as timber harvest, grazing, farming, mining, commercial use, residential use, and conservation in a prudent and sustainable manner.

Managing endowment trust lands (https://www.idl.idaho.gov/about-us/understanding-endowment-land/) is only part of our story. We also protect public resources such as water quality, fish, wildlife habitat, and recreation on navigable waterways (http://www.idl.idaho.gov/lakes-rivers/) , and ensure the protection of water quality and other resources by overseeing forestry and mining practices across all ownerships in the state. We also work to reclaim abandoned mines in Idaho. One of our most important resource protection responsibilities is fire prevention and suppression. We also aid landowners in managing their forest lands, work with communities to plant trees in urban settings, help keep working forests working through the Forest Legacy Program, and work with many partners to promote healthy forests on a landscape level. IDL also is the administrative arm of the Idaho Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.