Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Resource Strategy

Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Resource Strategy

Office of Strategy and Planning (OSP)
Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS)
Pittsburgh, PA

Salary: $112,000 - $127,000

The anticipated hiring range for this position is $112,000 to $127,000 annually. Starting salary will be determined based on the selected candidate's depth of relevant experience, scope of prior leadership responsibilities, technical expertise in financial planning and resource strategy, and overall alignment with the qualifications and requirements of the role.

Position Summary

The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) is seeking a strategic, analytical, and collaborative leader to serve as the Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Resource Strategy within the Office of Strategy and Planning (OSP).

This position leads DHS's enterprise resource planning capability and plays a critical role in connecting departmental priorities to sustainable financial, funding, workforce, and organizational decisions. The Senior Manager directs integrated forecasting, scenario analysis, budget strategy, and executive decision support to help ensure resources are aligned with the department's mission and long-term goals.

Reporting to the Director of the Office of Strategy and Planning, this position partners with executive leadership, finance, human resources, program offices, and other stakeholders to support data-informed decision making across one of the nation's leading human services organizations.

What You'll Do

Enterprise Resource Planning & Budget Strategy

• Lead the enterprise resource planning cycle, including annual resource planning, budget strategy development, quarterly financial outlooks, and multi-year financial planning.
• Establish and maintain planning calendars, assumptions, analytical standards, templates, reporting schedules, governance checkpoints, and decision documentation.
• Design and continuously improve scalable resource planning processes that align strategy, funding, workforce needs, and major initiatives.

Financial, Funding & Workforce Planning

• Direct multi-year revenue and expenditure forecasting, scenario modeling, baseline obligation analysis, structural gap assessments, and sustainability reviews.
• Evaluate federal, state, county, grant, and other funding sources to assess restrictions, reliability, expiration risks, and strategic opportunities.
• Develop resource allocation and reallocation strategies that clearly identify impacts, trade-offs, assumptions, and implementation considerations.
• Partner with Human Resources and operational leaders to integrate workforce planning into financial strategy, including vacancy analysis, affordability assessments, staffing priorities, and organizational redesign efforts.

Initiative & Executive Decision Support

• Lead resource assessments and business case development for new, expanded, or redesigned initiatives.
• Evaluate strategic alignment, total cost of ownership, funding sustainability, workforce impacts, implementation readiness, performance measures, and organizational risks related to major proposals.
• Collaborate with strategic planning and project management functions to integrate resource analysis into initiative intake, prioritization, governance, implementation planning, and benefits tracking.
• Develop executive-level analyses and recommendations related to budget priorities, workforce investments, major reallocations, and emerging organizational challenges.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment while identifying and escalating significant risks, resource constraints, and competing priorities.

Team Leadership & Capability Development

• Supervise, coach, and develop assigned staff, including Financial Analyst positions and other personnel as assigned.
• Review and ensure the quality, consistency, accuracy, and decision-making value of analytical work products.
• Build repeatable planning methods, tools, documentation standards, and data practices that strengthen organizational capability and reduce reliance on institutional knowledge.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, effective controls, and sound stewardship of public resources.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field.

Experience

• Four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, resource planning, public-sector finance, management consulting, or a related field.
• Two (2) years of experience leading complex initiatives, supervising staff, managing consultants, or coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience managing budgets or resource portfolios of significant size and complexity.

Technical Skills

• Advanced proficiency with:
  • Microsoft Excel and spreadsheet modeling
  • Financial and budgeting systems
  • Business intelligence and reporting tools
  • Financial data analysis and decision-support technologies

Knowledge & Competencies

• Advanced knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, business case development, and resource management.
• Strong understanding of public funding structures, funding restrictions, sustainability considerations, and the relationship between budgets and service delivery.
• Ability to translate complex financial, workforce, operational, and strategic information into clear recommendations for executive decision-makers.
• Excellent analytical, communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Commitment to transparency, accountability, equitable resource allocation, public stewardship, and sound internal controls.

Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant experience may be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Public Administration, Public Policy, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, resource planning, public-sector finance, management consulting, or a related field.
• Three (3) years of experience leading complex initiatives, supervising staff, managing consultants, or coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience with:
  • Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar analytical technologies
  • Relational databases, data warehouses, application integrations, and automated reporting solutions
• Experience in government, human services, healthcare, or another complex mission-driven or regulated organization.
• Experience building or enhancing enterprise planning, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), management analysis, executive dashboard, or resource planning functions.

Why Join DHS?

The Allegheny County Department of Human Services is nationally recognized for its use of data, innovation, and collaboration to improve outcomes for residents. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide resource decisions, help shape strategic priorities, and build sustainable planning capabilities that support services for individuals, families, and communities across Allegheny County.

About the Office of Strategy and Planning

The Office of Strategy and Planning (OSP) advances DHS priorities by coordinating agencywide planning and funding strategy, aligning initiatives, partnerships, and resources to improve outcomes for Allegheny County residents.

Key functions of OSP include:

• Coordinating development of major strategic and system plans required by state and local partners.
• Supporting funding strategy and competitive grant development.
• Guiding planning for procurement of new and redesigned services.
• Leading intergovernmental affairs and cross-departmental initiatives that promote innovation, system improvement, and long-term sustainability.

Through these efforts, OSP helps connect priorities to action across DHS.

Apply today to help shape the financial and strategic decisions that strengthen human services and improve lives throughout Allegheny County.

Why DHS?

DHS is diverse, but we strive to be even more inclusive. This includes equity in hiring and advancement, as well as in unleashing the creativity and ideas of staff at every level of DHS.It has strong, assertive leaders. We do not hire yes-people.

You can make a big impact here. We stand out as one of the best human services organizations in the country. But we need problem-solvers, innovators, and terrific leaders to make sure we are smart in how we use our funding so that we reach the people who most need our help to make their lives better.

“DHS strives to be the kind of place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come to grow and do their best work.”

-From the organization’s statement on Equity and Inclusion

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