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1. Verbal sharing: describe a typical workday as a budgeting officer (3min)

2. Adopt a board: Based on your experiences working with junior budgeting officers, what do you think they excel in? What are some points for improvement? (7min + 5min sharing)

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What is one word of phrase that best describes the state of budgeting in your agency? Fill in the boards below! (double-click boards of the same color to fill them in)

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Engage them in business discussions.

Network sessions with other agencies Finance Officers.

Refresher courses on budgeting, Excel and etc.

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1) read up on finance.gov

2) attend csc budget course

3) sharing session on gd, d and dd of line depts on budgeting concepts

4) workday - maintaining close connections with Accenture/agd

5) OJT

6) cross learning from other agencies (informal sharing)

6) cluster

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Internal training and sharing to keep abreast of latest projects / trends / develop affecting the company

External training - ISCA BAR (business analytics and reporting) course

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Excel:

1) working under time pressure

2) proficiency in workday

3) customer oriented

Improvement:

1) cost allocation methodology

2) various gov budgeting rules / funding

3) succinct reporting to mgmt

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Excel in:

1) communicating what is required to business unit

2) meeting timelines

3) drawing required data where available

Improvement:

1) proficiency in excel / python script

2) reviewing budget inputs for reasonableness

3) paper writing / slides presentation

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Complex

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Complicated

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Off

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Excel: Proficient in financial system and Excel

Improvement: Would be even better if could have more time to look into the details and past correspondences that are relevant during the budget preparation.

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Factual or procedural infomation

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Business knowledge - ie how to project rev for next xx years, expenditure trends

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Understand gov budgeting rules

Understand considerations by ministry in evaluating proposals etc

System knowledge - excel, workday

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1. Seek to understand the organisation structure and its respective departments activities.

2. Ability to communicate with department key stakeholders

3. Understand the chart of account.

4. Proficiency in systems and Excel.

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Emotions or opinions towards something which influence behaviour

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A demonstration of expertise, applied in a specific context.

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Values, beliefs and experiences which are difficult to train or learn but yet affect outcomes.

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Able to manage large volume of information

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1) meticulous with numbers

2) able to deal with volume of data

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Ability to learn on the job , apply and understand what is required - ie. expenditure trend — how it was done previously, to follow the same or change methodology of budgeting, any new trends

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1) communication - making finance lingo/policies easy to understand for line depts. this is critical as most budgeting are bottom up. So line must understand. If they don’t, it affects the quality of budget returns

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Putting the whole budget tgt for approval by senior management / board

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Mindset in general

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1) can do spirit time pressed

2) willing to chiong

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Stay calm when working under compressed deadlines

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Positive attitude to work under tight deadline with constant changes

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They excel in:

1. Timely submission of work

2. Good stakeholder management

Points for improvement:

1. Proficiency in Workday

2. Lack of business acumen and sectorial awareness

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#2 What does a good budgeting officer look like ?

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#2 What does a good budgeting officer look like ?

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Imagine an exemplary budgeting officer; how will he/she look like ? Describe the officer in terms of knowledge, skills, attitude and other characteristics

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What are some interventions (existing or otherwise) that can equip budget officers with the key knowledge and skills necessary for their role ?