Budget Analyst

The ideal candidate for this position will independently perform a range of administrative, technical, and analytical duties in Regional budget formulation, justification, forecasting, execution, analysis and review. The incumbent will persuade managers, with opposing views, to follow recommendations.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as the Budget Analyst for Region 6, Mission Support division. Typical assignments include:

• Monitoring execution, via variance and trend analysis, of assigned programs within the regional budget, which includes a wide variety of both direct and reimbursable funding from several different appropriations, with varying lengths of availability (i.e. one-year, multi-year, and no-year).
• Providing expert technical analysis, identifying problems, and persuading decision-making officials with widely differing operational goals and opposing views to follow a recommended course of action.
• Developing specific objectives and devising new methods, techniques, and criteria pertaining to such matters as identifying trends and patterns, acquiring information, analyzing data, developing financial and operational solutions, and presenting findings to stakeholders.
• Translating operational and mission requirements into dollars and prepares annual budget program plans.
• Creating budget entries and adjustments in accounting software systems.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

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