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

2. Fill a board in: 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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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 ?

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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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OJT with supervisor's guidance (nothing beats getting your hand dirty), Mentoring, Coaching

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tasks: budget planning (e.g. reviewing and scrubbing budget returns), virement, budget monitoring, budget reports, answering queries from HQ Divs/ SBs.

do well: totally agree with Renee. the junior officers are better with ops but less so on the strategic part.

Jasmine Wong (MOT)

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Junior officers help in the annual budget exercise- consolidate and review budget returns from the business units.  liaise with the business units on the returns.  ensure the accuracy in consolidating.  also ensure that it meet the budget timelines.  follow-up with the business units on the budget variances. Also answer queries from business units and our parent Ministry.

Lee San Teo (SSG, Skillsfuture)

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Essential

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Operational

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Massive

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typical tasks - liaising with users on budgetary needs, performing budget virements, answering queries on availability of budget and usage. Junior budget officers are generally good with number crunching and checking for accuracy and they usually try to work withing deadlines. However, they may overlook the real business needs of users and don't have sight of the strategic outcomes.

Renee Fong (NYC)

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Factual or procedural infomation

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Budgeting framework, financial systems, budgeting SOP/ practices, past budget submissions

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Holistic appreciation and detailed understanding of key issues pertaining to budgetary

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IMs, FCMs (Finance Circular Minutes released by MOFs yearly & ad-hoc) and relevant circulars

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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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Applying knowledge of IMs, FCMs and relevant circulars in

budgeting process and cycle

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Presentation Skills (Meet Management), Probing/ Questioning, Effective Written and Oral Communication Skills, Collaboration btw individuals/ teams internally and externally

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Numerical calculation, Statistical analysis

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Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerBI, RPA, Python, Budgeting System

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connect the dots

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Openesss to exploring or learning something which may not be comfortable or usual in the job

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Resilient, Patient

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Engaging, Driven