Senior Management Analyst (Treasury Division)

Description

Are you an experienced professional passionate about financial stewardship and providing excellent customer service?

We are seeking an Senior Analyst to join our vibrant team. Apply today!

Exciting Career Opportunity!

The City of Palo Alto is looking for a dynamic critical thinker with a passion for public service to a serve as a Senior Management Analyst in the Treasury Division. Successful candidates are well-rounded, agile, top performers with experience in treasury management practices. Individuals with excellent interpersonal skills and is an accomplished financial professional with fiscal analysis and project management skills, experience administrating taxes and has a highly collaborative approach to work will be successful in this role. This is the position for you if you are a high performing individual contributor and interested in optimizing treasury operations for the City.

The City of Palo Alto Administrative Services Department (ASD) provides proactive financial and analytical support to City departments and decision-makers to safe-guard and facilitate the optimal use City resources. ASD provides excellent customer service to decision-makers, the public, employees, and City departments; provides analytical, organizational, and administrative support for a wide variety of projects; records, monitors, and protects City assets in a responsible manner; provides essential financial management and forecasting reports; and prepares and presents financial report to various committees and City Council. Learn more about the City's Administrative Services Department .

The Position

The Treasury Analyst will be responsible for performing professional level work and works in close collaboration with City departments and the City’s tax and fee consultants to understand the City’s cash and tax revenue needs to effectively manage the City’s cash solvency and track, forecast, and administer the City’s tax revenues. This position ensures the accurate accounting, ongoing monitoring and reporting, and management of the City’s tax revenues. The Treasury Analyst is responsible for managing the City’s tax and fee consultant contracts, who primarily assists with forecasting sales tax and property tax revenue, administering the business tax on behalf of the City, and tax audits. This position centrally coordinates the City’s cash solvency through tracking; planning and forecasting cash needs over the short term and long-term.

Successful candidates will possess the ability to manage and administer a broad range of assignments simultaneously that include maintaining and enhancing the City’s cash flow tracking and modeling, direct the City’s tax and fees consultants to accurately report tax revenue trends and administer the business tax, transient occupancy tax, and utility users tax, and manage periodic audits of major tax revenues. This position will also work directly with taxpayers and the City’s consultants on highly complex business tax filings.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following attributes:

• Sound decision maker with the goal of balancing the needs of the organization and essential job function requirements; willing to regularly both dive deep into the details and think strategically with the best interests of the City and the public .
• Demonstrated complex critical thinking and analytical skills ; f iscal competency to effectively manage treasury and tax activities.
• Brings a customer service and collaborative approach with an ability to look at issues in a creative way; ability to positively influence decisions, diffuse conflict, and come to a compromise after diligent consideration of all perspectives.
• Ability to interpret and analyze tax regulations and the City’s policies and procedures surrounding tax regulation to effectively manag e, administrate , and audit the City’s taxes .
• A bility to prioritize and coordinate work to ensure that deadlines are met .
• While analytical, the successful candidate will also be an excellent communicator both written and verbal; craft concise and comprehensive written reports as well as interact successfully with department staff, department directors, the City Manager, and City Council including presentations to staff, public, and/or elected officials.
• Strong team player with a positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a focus on organizational impact and enthusiasm to learn and take on new tasks.

Benefits: Fantastic benefits package! To learn more, click Here .
Compensation (Management): Comprehensive compensation plan. To learn more, click Here .
Schedule: Enjoy a hybrid 9/80 work schedule (with every other Friday off) and up to 2 remote days per week.

Essential Duties

Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include but are not limited to following, depending on assigned operations and functional areas:

• Provide centralized administration and coordination of cash activities throughout the City, including accurate accounting, maintaining cash flow tracking and modeling, and timely reporting; assist with the development and maintenance of treasury systems.
• Manage tax and fee consultants to ensure accurate and timely reporting and taxpayer compliance with tax regulations other related requirements.
• Interface with ASD Leadership report on treasury items, such as the City’s overall cash position and forecast; tax management items, such as analysis and reporting, tax compliance, audit results, and tax penalties.
• Analyze tax revenue data; work closely with Accounting and Office of Management and Budget to ensure proper accounting with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) and reporting in the City’s Budget.

To review the full job description, click Here .

Minimum Qualifications

Sufficient education, training and/or work experience to demonstrate possession of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities which would typically be acquired through:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and five years of professional experience in public or business administration, public affairs, or a related field; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
• Postgraduate coursework or a Master's Degree is preferred.

Supplemental Information

The Selection Process:

• Applicants will receive recruitment status notifications via email (governmentjobs.com account also has notification status updates).
• Applicants will be screened throughout the posting process and highly qualified candidates may be invited to interview at any time.
• The screening process for this position typically may include a virtual recorded interview and/or panel interviews preceding final interviews with the hiring manager or their designee.

Recruitment Timeline:

• Minimum Qualifications Review: Ongoing
• HireVue Interviews: Week of February 3, 2025
• Panel Interviews: To be determined
• Department Level Interviews: To be determined

Please note: The following dates are tentative and may change based on the needs of the hiring department.

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The City of Palo Alto is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City will provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

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Learn more about our Compensation Plan HERE.

Closing Date/Time: 1/27/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

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• City of Palo Alto

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