Pay Range: $43.31 - $48.95/hr. | $90,075 - $101,824 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on: Friday, January 23, 2026 📅

Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find Out More!

This position is budgeted through September 30, 2026, and is subject to continued funding availability.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Sr. Budget Analyst job is available with the City of Fort Worth FWLab, Budget Division. The FWLab advances the City’s vision to be “the most livable and best managed city in the country” by building organizational capacity to explore, analyze and learn from data that is deliverable via existing and new municipal system and components.

The Sr. Budget Analyst will play a pivotal role in the financial understanding of all capital infrastructure projects within the City of Fort Worth, ensuring alignment with long-term city goals and sustainability objectives. The Sr. Budget Analyst will play a key centralized role in the financial management of capital projects, including monitoring project expenditures, tracking funding sources, ensuring efficient capital project closeout, and that surplus funds are reallocated. You will work closely with various city departments to ensure the City’s capital projects contribute to a resilient, efficient, and cost-effective infrastructure system. The incumbent will report to FWLab’s Senior Capital Projects Officer.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in Public Administration, Finance, Business Administration, or related field
Four (4) years of experience in budget management, finance, research analysis or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of capital infrastructure project budget control and life-cycle cost analysis.
Knowledge of five-year capital improvement plan development and projection of multi-year project expenditures
Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills, and strong reporting skills, both written and verbal
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

The Sr. Budget Analyst job responsibilities include:

Assists departments and senior management staff in ensuring compliance with annual operating, capital outlay, and capital improvement plans or adopted operating budgets; monitors annual bond sales, reviews project management reports, approves requests for appropriations and tracks expenditures and surplus funding sources to provide decision making tools; and analyzes and sets criteria for closing capital projects
Participates in assigned analytical support functions that have Citywide impact; participates in the creation of new budget processes, such as fund review process or new process for vehicle and equipment purchases; and generates capital project expenditure update reports
Coordinates with various departments to research unusual and unnatural balances in departments’ funds; analyzes the resolution for unusual balances; defines any remaining fund balances; and makes recommendations regarding use of balances
Prepares financial forecasts; identifies possible budget overruns; coordinates appropriate solution with departments, CFO and City Manager’s Office

Working Conditions and Physical Demand

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Sr Budget Analyst

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