Budget Analyst

This National Guard position is for a Budget Analyst (Title 5), Position Description Number T5154000 and is part of the 19th Special Forces Group located at Camp Williams, UT with the Utah Army National Guard.

The selecting supervisor for this vacancy is LTC Tyler Jensen.

Priority will be given to all current, onboard employees of the UTNG.

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DUTIES:

• Performs moderately difficult and complex assignments consisting of well-precedented tasks to further orient the employee in the application of occupational principles, methods, and techniques.
• Assignments are combined with training to develop analytical skills and techniques used to resolve issues or problems of a
  
  procedural or factual nature.
• Work includes various duties involving different and unrelated tasks.
• Independently plans and carries out successive steps and handles problems and deviations in work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices.
• Uses judgment in interpreting and adapting guidelines, such as agency policies, regulations, precedents, and work directions for application to specific cases or problems.
• Assistance in solving problems is available from the supervisor or a higher-graded specialist.
• Continually analyzes and evaluates changes and gaps in program plans and funding.
• Reviews expenditure of assigned appropriations, re-imbursement allocations and transfer of funds.
• Reviews funding documents for assigned appropriations.
• Allocates appropriated funds to individual activities/functional areas based on an analysis of activity budget estimates, historical expenditures, quarterly projections, and approved funding.
• Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual and multi-year budget estimates for assigned organizations and programs into a consolidated budget request.
• Prepares or edits narrative justification and projected funding needs, and assures data in request is formally and accurately documented in a wide variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Performs program analysis of actual expenditures compared to planned utilization of annual budget and/or allotment authority, evaluates fund availability to achieve balance of approved objectives and determines where reprogramming actions may be necessary.
• Identifies trends and patterns, recommends ways to improve utilization of funds, and suggests alternative funding approaches.
• Evaluates the effect of cost and programmatic changes on the budget execution process.
• Adjusts fund allocations as required. Verifies, enters and adjusts budgetary data in a variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Provides analytical guidance for year-end close out to ensure proper, legal, and full utilization of funds.
• Provides financial advice, interpretation, and guidance on a variety of budget related matters, to include types of funding available, budgetary changes, and year-end closeout procedures.
• Prepares budget related reports, written correspondence and other documentation.
• Drafts or prepares a variety of documents to include newsletter items, responses to routine inquiries, reports, letters, and other related documents.
• Uses software such as word processing, spreadsheets, program language, plotting software, etc., to facilitate work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.