Budget Analysts

Business and Financial Operations Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 13-2031 · 388 skills

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Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.

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dr-forecast-variance

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Analyze budget vs forecast vs actual variances. Compares multi-scenario financial data for planning and performance review.

motherduck-pricing-roi

motherduckdb/agent-skills

Explain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use for any pricing, cost, billing, plan-comparison, instance-sizing, chargeback, or budget question — when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead asks about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, vendor cost comparisons, or whether MotherDuck is worth adopting.

variance-analysis

nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.

Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

Use when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records data in a structured format, and updates MODEL_ROUTING.md with observed cost patterns

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dr-forecast-variance

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Analyze budget vs forecast vs actual variances. Compares multi-scenario financial data for planning and performance review.

guidance-inventory

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Builds and maintains cumulative guidance inventory for a company. Use when collecting historical guidance, updating guidance after earnings, preparing context for prediction/attribution workflows, or when user asks about company outlook, earnings guidance, management expectations, forward forecasts, or FY/quarterly targets.

liquiditaetsvorschau-3wochen

majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Drei-Wochen-Liquiditaetsvorschau nach § 17 InsO mit Wochenraster, Excel-Export, Quote/Luecken-Ampel und Dokumentation. Rechtsprechung nur nach Live-Pruefung.

motherduck-pricing-roi

motherduckdb/agent-skills

Explain MotherDuck pricing and ROI tradeoffs. Use for any pricing, cost, billing, plan-comparison, instance-sizing, chargeback, or budget question — when an economic_buyer, technical_owner, or analytics_lead asks about spend, budget guardrails, workload cost drivers, plan fit, vendor cost comparisons, or whether MotherDuck is worth adopting.

variance-analysis

nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Decompose financial variances into drivers with narrative explanations and waterfall analysis. Use when analyzing budget vs. actual, period-over-period changes, revenue or expense variances, or preparing variance commentary for leadership.

nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles

Runs on the 25th — shows the next 30-day cash-flow outlook and flags anything that needs attention before month-end. Accepts optional 30 or 60 day horizon.

Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers

Use when the user wants to capture AI tool costs, review spending trends, set cost budgets, or integrate cost data into health snapshots — guides quarterly cost capture, records data in a structured format, and updates MODEL_ROUTING.md with observed cost patterns

engagement-pricing

anotb/management-consulting-plugin

Builds consulting pricing models, rate cards, engagement economics, and commercial terms. Use when structuring fees (fixed, time and materials, value-based, retainer, outcome-based, or hybrid), building or defending a rate card, modeling margins and team leverage, setting payment schedules and liability caps, planning discount and negotiation strategy, or drafting the commercial sections of a proposal or SOW. Covers model-selection logic, fully loaded cost buildup, realization, and value-case construction.

aws-savings-plans-strategist

Cletrics/finops-agents

Expert in Compute and EC2 Instance Savings Plans. Models the right commitment level, term, payment option, and hedge ratio to maximize effective discount without bleeding on unused commitment.

azure-reservation-planner

Cletrics/finops-agents

Plans Azure Reserved Instances and Azure Savings Plans across subscriptions and management groups, taking into account Azure Hybrid Benefit eligibility and dev-test rate structures.

budget-alert-tuner

Cletrics/finops-agents

Designs budget and alert policies that catch real problems without creating alert fatigue. Segment-aware thresholds, escalation paths, and the discipline to say no to 50%-of-budget tripwires.

cloud-billing-analyst

Cletrics/finops-agents

FOCUS-first analyst for cloud billing data across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and SaaS. Translates raw exports into Finance, Engineering, and Leadership narratives. Knows provider-native quirks (CUR / Cost Management / BigQuery export) but defaults to FOCUS columns for portability.