BHA Budget & Finance Director

This position is eligible for telework for applicants who reside in Minnesota or in a bordering state, with supervisory approval and satisfactory performance. If you live in a state bordering Minnesota, you must live within 50 miles or less from the primary work location to be eligible for telework.

Flexible work hours may be permitted with supervisor approval.

About the Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) – BHA is an administration of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) responsible for ensuring access to high-quality mental health, substance use disorder, and integrated behavioral health services for Minnesotans across the lifespan. BHA administers behavioral health policy, oversees federal block grant programs, and manages Medicaid-funded behavioral health services – working in partnership with counties, tribes, providers, and communities statewide.  BHA is committed to advancing equitable access to behavioral health services and to building a workforce that reflects and understands the communities we serve.

About the Role – The Budget & Finance Director is the primary fiscal authority and senior advisor to the Assistant Commissioner and the BHA’s senior leadership team.  This senior leadership position has wide latitude to shape fiscal strategy, influence policy, and direct three multidisciplinary teams: Federal Grants Management, Behavioral Health Payments and Rates, and Fiscal Operations. You will report to the BHA Deputy Assistant Commissioner and serve as a visible member of BHA’s senior leadership team.  In addition, key responsibilities of this position include:

• Provide executive-level direction over the establishment, oversight, and maintenance of BHA’s complex operational and programmatic funding and budgets.
• Direct development and oversight of BHA’s operational and programmatic budgets, including final authority over expenditure transfers and budget activity accounts.
• Supervise three management-level direct reports and their teams, ensuring quality outcomes, staff development, and state and federal compliance.
• Serve as BHA’s strategic liaison to the DHS Chief Financial Officer, Financial Operations Division, and Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB).
• Manage budget activity level reporting for all aspects of BHA’s approximately $415 million in combined administrative and grant budgets to support informed executive decision-making.
• Embed an equity lens into budget processes—attending to how resource allocation decisions affect communities experiencing disparities in behavioral health access and outcomes.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

To facilitate proper crediting, please ensure that your resume clearly describes your experience in the areas listed and indicates the beginning and ending month and year for each job held.

Professional leadership or supervisory experience.

AND

Two (2) years of advanced level experience managing budgets, spending plans and fiscal policy direction programs for a public or non-profit organization along with the required experience listed below.

OR

Five (5) years of highly skilled financial work experience providing leadership or supervisory experience supporting budgets, spending plans and fiscal policy directions for a public or non-profit organization along with the required experience listed below.

Required experience includes the following:

• Managing large, complex budgets across multiple funding sources, appropriations, or grant funds. 
• Developing or advising on fiscal policy, budget strategy, or multi-year spending plans in a complex organizational setting. 
• Providing fiscal analysis, guidance, or recommendations to senior or executive leadership to support high-stakes decision-making. 
• Managing funds across multiple appropriations or funding streams, including monitoring expenditures to ensure funds are used within required timelines and in compliance with applicable requirements