Principal Administrative Analyst II (1825) - Department of Public Health - 159728

Under administrative direction, Class 1825 Principal Administrative Analyst II plans, organizes, leads and may supervise staff engaged in complex, sensitive, and detailed analytical work including quantitative analysis in the areas of budget, contracts, financial/fiscal, economic, legislative and administrative policies. This class typically supervises staff including lower-level administrative analysts, and/or complex, cross-functional project teams staffed with professional level employees.

Essential Duties:

1. Working independently, researches, analyzes, forecasts and makes policy recommendations on unique special projects with significant financial impact or highly visible public issues including administrative policies, practices, and procedures; may direct mission-critical financial or operational activities; responds to informational requests, including those of a highly sensitive nature, and may represent the department to the Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, Controller's Office, other city officials, outside agencies and the public; acts as executive assistant and provides administrative analysis including complex forecast modeling to high-level managers or a department head.

2. Plans, develops and directs the production of highly complex departmental budget(s); advises management in the budget development and management process, including formulating policy, monitoring, reporting and interpreting budget documents; may negotiate budget proposals within the department and with the Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, and other agencies; prepares or supervises staff in the preparation of budget line-item narratives, complex analyses, recommendations and justification based on complex statistical analyses for annual, supplemental and multiyear requests.

3. Establishes, administers, monitors, coordinates and acts as liaison regarding application for and management of extremely complex, multiple source capital projects and/or grants; ensures compliance of fund reallocations with funding agency requirements; analyzes trends in expenditures and revenues for multi-year budgets; prepares financial/statistical reports for management, Mayor's Office, Board of Supervisors, Controller's Office and other funding agencies; coordinates and monitors departmental reporting to funding agencies including the subvention of funds to contracting organizations and justifies that funds are used as required.

4. Plans, develops, performs and directs work involving extremely complex economic and/or financial analysis including finance and utility rate analysis and modeling, cost/benefit analysis, and capital planning for senior management; determines appropriate methodology and performs difficult financial analyses, including financial forecasting, revenue and/or expense projections, capital requirements, calculation of debt capacity and evaluation of financing alternatives utilizing specialized analytical software to produce complex analysis or data; makes written and oral recommendations on difficult administrative and fiscal issues.

5. Analyzes, evaluates, interprets, and implements new and existing governmental accounting pronouncements and technical guidance; identifies problems with, and develops and implements changes to current financial policies and procedures; may coordinate and oversee the annual financial audit including preparation of audit schedules and governmental accounting standards, and local, state, and federal regulations.

6. Identifies and analyzes highly complex existing, newly enacted and proposed local, state, federal legislation policies and procedures projecting potential impact; advises management on the consequences of proposed and pending legislation and effectively presents recommendations; develops and recommends procedures for the citywide implementation of enacted legislation; may act as legislative liaison to other departments; assists state and federal legislative staff in drafting legislation; advocates and testifies regarding department's position to legislators, committees, and staff; develops comprehensive user manuals to implement legislation, programs and administrative policies; manages implementation of new systems, policies, and procedures.

7. Plans and directs difficult and detailed staff work involving: preparation of status reports; conducting competitive contract vendor selection processes including public bids and Requests For Proposals, ensuring adequate and economic distribution of advertisement, requests for proposals and public notices; process highly complex contracts including advertising for bids/proposals, receipt and review of bids, contract negotiation and award and routing through signature/documentation process to certification; coordinate with staff from purchasing, Human Resources, and the Administrative Services office; and provide training and assistance to staff and contractors on departmental and City contracting policies, procedures, and requirements.

8. Reviews, prepares, and analyzes cost estimates and terms for financially significant new and existing contracts, change orders, and modifications; prepares reports of analyses and related documents; analyzes claims for additional cost reimbursement to determine validity; analyzes contract provisions to determine appropriate reimbursement amount; conducts negotiations with contractors with regard to additional contract terms, cost reimbursement and change order provisions; prepares reports regarding claim status, settlement activities and reimbursement amounts for use by management and city Attorney's Office; maintains records of negotiations.

9. Independently reviews and evaluates financial and business models utilized within an organization. Conducts reviews and appraisals of business models and discusses review findings and recommendations with senior and executive management. Utilizes statistical models to forecast particular outcomes or events.

10. The 1825 Principle Administrative Analyst II may perform other duties as assigned/required.