Business Manager

Job Description

Anticipated Salary Range: $76,700 - $90,150

Benefits: This position is benefits eligible. Please view our benefits guide here .

Job Summary

The Business Manager conducts ongoing analysis of financial activities, cost recovery modeling, and department-wide data collection. This role supports Division representatives in budget creation, oversees purchasing, contract management, personnel planning, and supervises the Office Manager and Business Analyst. The Business Manager is responsible for creating and monitoring performance measures and the department's strategic plan.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills

Minimum Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in public administration, with 3-5 years of supervisory experience.
• Proficiency in governmental budgeting and business operations management.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, public administration, and municipal government functions.
  
  

Preferred

• 7-10 years of progressively responsible experience in public administration.
• Experience in managing complex business operations and developing strategic financial models
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Financial management, cost recovery models, and budget creation processes.
• Budget analysis, rate studies, and financial transaction oversight.
• Knowledge of City policies, strategic planning, and performance measurement.
• Knowledge of legislative processes and departmental financial policies.
• Public speaking and ability to communicate financial data clearly.
• Ability to lead and supervise staff effectively.
• Ability to build strong relationships with city officials, public groups, and stakeholders.
• Ability to perform cost-benefit analyses, productivity assessments, and organizational analysis.
• Ability to act as a liaison between departments to ensure alignment with city policies and goals.
  
  

Essential Functions

• Contributes to the strategic leadership of the Community Development Department, helping set annual work plans and budget development to align with city goals.
• Ensures a culture of high performance and leadership within the department.
• Manages financial aspects of the department, including budget preparation, revenue projections, cost recovery, and fund balance monitoring.
• Oversees purchasing, contract management, and personnel planning to ensure adherence to city and department policies.
• Serves as a liaison to the Finance Department to ensure alignment of resources with community priorities.
• Supervises staff, setting objectives and standards related to financial and performance management.
• Conducts research and analysis on policy issues, master plans, service levels, and productivity measures.
• Represents the Community Development Department in public meetings, City Council presentations, and various boards and commissions.
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Organize and delegate assignments to team members.
• Hiring, training, motivating and coaching employees.
• Evaluate employee performance and goal setting.
• Hold employees accountable for assigned tasks and goals.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback and training opportunities.
• Provide training opportunities with a focus on employee development.
• Resolve conflicts and complaints.
• Analyzing information and processes and developing more effective or efficient processes.
• Establishing and achieving business and financial objectives.
• Ensure compliance with safety procedures.
  
  

Work Environment And Physical Requirements

• Employee is subject to working alone, with groups, and/or attending meetings.
• May be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites, sometimes in formal settings.
• May be required to work extended hours in the evening, holidays, or weekends.
• Frequent interruptions and be required to manage competing priorities with inflexible deadlines.
• Frequent participation in meetings.
• Frequent contact occurs with employees and the public, in person and on the telephone.
• Frequently is required to sit and talk or hear customers.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions and an expected high level of accuracy in work is expected.
• Work is safe to having minimal hazards that are typically found in a general office environment where there is rarely little or no exposure to injury or accident.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices--graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes.
• Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders in awkward positions, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 30 lbs) and use of medium weight tools; walking on uneven ground or having to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while performing duties; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up;
• The essential functions of this job require frequent balancing, bending/stooping, carrying/lifting light to heavy objects, climbing, fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, hearing, sitting, standing, talking, and walking. Occasionally the employee will be required to pull, push, reach, feel temperature, and kneel.
  
  

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