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If you have questions regarding this position please contact Trinda Burdett, Executive Secretary at (385) 646-4723 or email tburdett@graniteschools.org

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, training, education, responsibilities, abilities; the machines, tools and equipment used; background; and any licenses or certifications required. Physical, punctual, reliable, and predictable regular attendance is an essential job function to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the position.

Job Summary

The Director of Budget Development - Director II provides senior-level strategic fiscal leadership, operational oversight, and financial engineering for the District's budgetary ecosystem. Under the general direction of the Business Administrator and Finance Director, this position is responsible for developing, forecasting, and monitoring complex district budget allocations, revenue streams, and multi-layered expenditures. The role leverages modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) data networks to model financial trajectories, recommend optimized district tax rates, ensure comprehensive statutory compliance, and align fiscal resources with the District's overarching strategic educational goals.

Essential Functions

• Budget Development & Strategic Fiscal Forecasting:
  • Prepare and submit the comprehensive proposed annual district budget with complete supporting documentation to the Superintendent and Board of Education prior to June 1 of each year in strict compliance with statutory deadlines.
  • Coordinate, evaluate, prioritize, and balance complex annual budget requests submitted across all district schools and corporate departments.
  • Execute sophisticated financial and cost-analysis forecasting models to evaluate contract negotiations, labor agreements, and compensation adjustments for district leadership.
  • Provide technical data modeling and serve as an active financial advisory member on the Capital Outlay Committee to prioritize, project, and budget for all district capital expenditures and available funds.
  • Formulate comprehensive expenditure tracking, project lifecycle accounting, and reporting mechanisms for all bond financing initiatives to ensure transparency for district leadership.
  • Serve as a core technical member of the Medical Plan Advisory Committee, providing data-driven insights regarding the fiscal impact of healthcare insurance costs, premium shifts, and structural design revisions to employee medical plans.
• Daily Operations, Internal Controls & Position Management:
  • Establish, optimize, and supervise rigorous daily control processes over the District budget by continuously monitoring revenue inflows and expenditure trajectories.
  • Oversee the District's modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) budget ledger control configurations, identifying systemic variances, preparing diagnostic reports, and resolving localized budgetary issues dynamically.
  • Manage and enforce the position control approval framework in close integration with the Human Resources and Payroll departments to verify all personnel expenditures are appropriately authorized, fully funded, and mapped to precise account strings.
  • Direct the modern technology-driven procurement integrations for campus funding, managing programs such as the Teacher Supply program allocation matrix utilizing centralized digital corporate accounts (e.g., Amazon Business).
  • Develop, distribute, and maintain advanced digital tracking tools, custom dashboards, and analytical reporting mechanisms to empower school principals and department heads to track localized budgets effectively.
  • Resolve day-to-day fiscal anomalies, deficit trends, and accounting inquiries surfaced by administrative personnel across all district sites.
• Public Relations, Interagency Compliance & Records Management:
  • Present complex budget details, financial models, and tax rate variations in public budget hearings, board meetings, and community forums in a clear, accessible, and structured format.
  • Act as an authorized technical spokesperson to respond to media inquiries and public information requests concerning district property tax rates, fiscal initiatives, and financial allocations.
  • Represent the District as the primary liaison on complex budget, taxation, and statutory record schedules with the Utah State Board of Education (USBE), the State Tax Commission, the County Auditor, the State Auditor, and the State Archives office.
  • Establish accounting lines for, monitor, and audit all incoming Federal and State Grants, executing recursive reimbursement submissions and finalizing close-out reporting schedules required by the USBE.
  • Maintain and update the official repository of all district salary schedules on an annual basis to seamlessly integrate negotiated contract updates.
  • Manage the design, public-facing transparency, and functional performance of the department's external web portal and internal intranet resource repositories.
  • Advise district administrators on records retention mandates, coordinating systematic archiving pipelines and managing the secure destruction of obsolete district records in alignment with state statutes.

Non-Essential Functions

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Utah School Finance & Property Tax Statutes: Comprehensive mastery of Utah public education funding mechanisms, minimum school program (MSP) frameworks, and statutory property tax rate adjustment criteria (including Truth in Taxation mandates).
• Governmental Accounting & Budgeting Procedures: Advanced knowledge of modified accrual accounting practices, GASB standards, and complex public sector fund accounting frameworks.
• State Records Retention & GRAMA Regulations: Thorough operational understanding of the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) laws and State Archives retention schedules.
• Compensation & Benefits Analytics: Functional knowledge of multi-tiered public payroll cycles, benefits structure modeling, and salary schedule mechanics.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: High proficiency navigating and leveraging large-scale ERP financial software databases, with the demonstrated adaptability to facilitate system-wide ERP transitions and cloud-based architecture upgrades.
• Advanced Productivity Suites: Mastery of advanced capabilities within Microsoft Office (specifically complex data structures, VLOOKUP/Index-Match, and macro structures in Excel) alongside collaborative Google Workspace applications.
• Strategic Communication & Public Presentation: Superior written and verbal communication competencies, with a proven ability to translate highly technical economic data and abstract fiscal formulas into clear, digestible, and concise public presentations.

Required Education, Training, and Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree or higher from a regionally accredited college or university in accounting.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation in active status preferred.
• Master's degree (MBA, Master of Accountancy, or Master of Public Administration) from an accredited institution preferred.

Required Prior Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of progressive, professional-level experience in accounting, fiscal auditing, or public sector corporate financial management.
• Extensive prior experience specializing in public K-12 education budgeting, school district finance, and State/Federal grant compliance monitoring.

Assigned Decision Making

• Authority to make final administrative determinations regarding multi-million dollar district-wide budget allocations, fund transfers, and ledger adjustments.
• Autonomy to formulate short-range and long-range operational planning procedures and independently establish deployment mechanics for new internal fiscal controls across the district.

Non-Supervisory Interaction

• Provides ongoing executive-level financial consultation to the Board of Education, Superintendent, and Senior Cabinet throughout the fiscal cycle.
• Partners closely with the Accounting Services Director and provides technical assistance to the accounting department regarding intricate year-end closing processes.
• Directs collaborative workflows with the Human Resources and Payroll departments to continuously cross-verify that all employee compensation changes correspond cleanly with authorized budget lines.
• Maintains ongoing interagency regulatory coordination with state compliance officers at the USBE, Salt Lake County Auditor, and Utah State Tax Commission.

Supervisory Responsibility

• Formal personnel management, task delegation, and operational performance evaluation responsibility for one (1) clerical staff position (Secretary).

Budget Responsibility

• Direct executive oversight for developing, forecasting, monitoring, and auditing the comprehensive centralized District budget allocation pool, tracking multi-source revenues, balancing expenditures, and analyzing tax collection vectors to determine optimal tax rate recommendations.

Working Environment

• Subject to a highly pressurized office environment governed by rigid, unyielding statutory deadlines and high-consequence compliance windows.
• Experiencing regular cycles of unscheduled, urgent requests for detailed data analysis from the Board, central administration, the State Legislature, or oversight agencies.
• Characterized by significant mental pressure and acute stress tied directly to the scale of the public funds managed and the community-wide impact of executive decisions.
• Requires an extensive time commitment stretching far beyond standard office hours, specifically during peak budget formulation months (March, April, and May), which regularly demands evening, weekend, and holiday shift coverage.

Physical Requirements

• Communication: Ability to express and exchange highly complex financial concepts, statutory details, and numerical data sets through spoken word to public bodies, media representatives, and internal administrators; capability to accurately discern auditory feedback during contentious public hearings.
• Mobility: Ability to maintain stationary positions for extended durations of keyboarding, data input, and micro-analysis; capability to occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch, or navigate physical archives to retrieve documentation.
• Vision: Continuous visual visual acuity required for close-range analysis of dense spreadsheets, fiscal trend charts, and system software configurations; ability to execute deep focal adjustments and differentiate subtle color coding variations in data visualization maps.
• Lifting: Must frequently lift, carry, and maneuver standard office materials up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift or transition historical financial ledgers or boxed archives weighing up to 50 pounds.