Budget management
Planning, monitoring, and controlling a budget, including forecasting, managing variances, and following financial rules.
Levels
- 1. Awareness
You can:
- follow the rules for spending and ordering
- explain how your work is funded
- 2. Working
You can:
- track spending against a small budget and raise variances
- authorise spending within your limit
- 3. Practitioner
You can:
- hold and manage a budget, forecasting and explaining variances
- build a business case with costs and benefits
- 4. Expert
You can:
- manage large or multiple budgets and set financial plans
- make funding trade-offs across services
Closest ESCO skills
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Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior administrator | Administrator | 4 | Awareness |
| Head of analytics engineering | Analytics engineer | 8c | Practitioner |
| Principal application operations engineer | Application operations engineer | 8b | Working |
| Head of business analysis | Business analyst | 8c | Practitioner |
| Head of category | Category manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Chief clinical information officer | Chief clinical information officer | 9 | Practitioner |
| Clinical coding manager | Clinical coder | 7 | Working |
| Head of clinical informatics | Clinical informatician | 8c | Practitioner |
| Communications manager | Communications officer | 7 | Working |
| Head of communications | Communications officer | 8b | Practitioner |
| Head of content design | Content designer | 8c | Working |
| Senior cyber security manager | Cyber security manager | 8b | Working |
| Head of cyber security | Cyber security manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Chief information security officer | Cyber security manager | 8d | Practitioner |
| Head of data engineering | Data engineer | 8b | Practitioner |
| Lead data governance manager | Data governance manager | 8b | Working |
| Head of data governance | Data governance manager | 8c | Working |
| Head of data science | Data scientist | 8b | Practitioner |
| Senior delivery manager | Delivery manager | 8a | Working |
| Head of delivery management | Delivery manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Lead DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 8b | Working |
| Principal DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 8c | Practitioner |
| Head of digital portfolio | Digital portfolio manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Principal end user computing engineer | End user computing engineer | 8b | Practitioner |
| Lead enterprise architect | Enterprise architect | 8c | Working |
| Principal enterprise architect | Enterprise architect | 8d | Practitioner |
| Executive office manager | Executive assistant | 6 | Working |
| Head of frontend development | Frontend developer | 8c | Working |
| Head of corporate governance | Governance and risk manager | 8b | Working |
| Deputy head of legal services | Head of legal services | 8c | Working |
| Head of legal services | Head of legal services | 8d | Practitioner |
| General counsel | Head of legal services | 9 | Practitioner |
| Head of HR | Head of people | 8c | Practitioner |
| Deputy director of people | Head of people | 8d | Expert |
| Director of people | Head of people | 9 | Expert |
| Head of procurement | Head of procurement | 8c | Practitioner |
| Head of HR business partnering | Human resources business partner | 8b | Practitioner |
| Principal infrastructure engineer | Infrastructure engineer | 8b | Practitioner |
| Head of interaction design | Interaction designer | 8c | Working |
| Senior IT service manager | IT service manager | 7 | Awareness |
| Head of IT service management | IT service manager | 8b | Practitioner |
| Digital skills lead | Learning and development specialist | 7 | Practitioner |
| Head of learning | Learning and development specialist | 8a | Practitioner |
| Head of performance analysis | Performance analyst | 8b | Working |
| Procurement assistant | Procurement officer | 3 | Awareness |
| Lead product manager | Product manager | 8b | Working |
| Head of product | Product manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Programme delivery manager | Programme delivery manager | 8b | Practitioner |
| Senior programme delivery manager | Programme delivery manager | 8c | Expert |
| Head of project management | Project manager | 8b | Practitioner |
| Project coordinator | Project support officer | 4 | Awareness |
| PMO analyst | Project support officer | 5 | Working |
| PMO manager | Project support officer | 6 | Working |
| Digital talent partner | Recruitment officer | 5 | Working |
| Recruitment manager | Recruitment officer | 6 | Working |
| Head of service design | Service designer | 8c | Working |
| Head of service desk | Service desk analyst | 7 | Working |
| Service owner | Service owner | 8b | Practitioner |
| Senior service owner | Service owner | 8c | Expert |
| Principal solution architect | Solution architect | 8d | Working |
| Head of test | Test manager | 8c | Practitioner |
| Head of user research | User researcher | 8c | Working |