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Budget & Reporting Manager at Alliance Defending Freedom | LAYIQ

Budget Process Management: Manage the annual budget cycle through final approval, including timelines, submission, and requirements.
Consolidate departmental budgets into a unified organizational budget.
Implement budget policies, approval workflows, and spending controls.
Cross-Team Partnership & Communication: Serve as the primary, ongoing point of contact for department managers on all budget-related questions throughout the fiscal year; meeting regularly with department managers to review their budget performance and walk through variances in clear, practical terms.
Build department managers’ financial confidence and literacy over time, helping them become more self-sufficient in reading and managing their own budgets.
Partner with Accounting and FP&A teams to ensure alignment between budget, actuals, and forecasts.
Headcount & Personnel Budget Tracking: Maintain an up-to-date view of budgeted headcount by department, including salary, benefits, and other position-related costs, to support department managers in workforce planning decisions.
Track personnel changes as they occur, including new hires, terminations, transfers, and promotions, and update budget and headcount plans to reflect their financial impact.
Assist department managers in determining available salary budget for new and replacement hires before offers are extended, including guidance on how open positions affect remaining budget capacity. Communicate proactively when personnel-driven changes create budget risk or create newly available capacity.
Variance Management & Reporting: Track actual spending against budget on a monthly basis by department and team, and prepare periodic variance reports for leadership.
Identify, investigate, and document variances, and follow up with department managers to understand drivers.
Flag emerging budget risks early (overspend trends, underspend that signals delays, etc.).
Ongoing Financial Reporting
Produce recurring internal reporting packages (monthly close support, budget-to-actual reports, dashboards).
Maintain reporting templates and ensure consistency and accuracy across departments.
Support the month-end close processes, as they relate to budget reporting.

Budget & Reporting Manager

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