communication skills to discuss budget requirements and to seek and provide feedback critical thinking skills to analyse resource use and costs initiative and enterprise skills to proactively identify better resource usage and budgetary improvements literacy skills to read and interpret a wide range of business and financial documents research options for more effective budgetary control write budget reports and recommendations numeracy skills to interpret and use budget figures in daytoday work operations and to calculate budget estimates and scenarios for performance improvement numeracy skills to interpret and use budget figures in daytoday work operations, and to calculate budget estimates and scenarios for performance improvement planning and organising skills to produce budgetary reports within designated timelines problemsolving skills to identify budget deviations and deficiencies and develop options for improved budgetary performance selfmanagement skills to take responsibility for budget management teamwork skills to discuss desired budget outcomes with team members and provide direction on resource usage technology skills to use accounting software packages |