Budget Analyst

Responsibilities:
• Contribute to budget strategy and develop and maintain financial spreadsheets and databases, including budgets and spend plans.
• Perform financial analyses of program budgets and execute budget planning activities in order to achieve business management objectives.
• Analyze financial management reports and business processes to determine enhancements and efficiencies needed to improve business management performance.
• Provide content to assist in budget formulation, submission, and reporting of designated PEO programs.
• Gather requirements to assist the client with performing cost analysis for acquisition packages.
• Assist with the development of viable financial spend plans and monitor the execution of financial spend plans, including reimbursable funds and their impact against resources.
• Validate execution of funds, analyze liquidations, obligations and unliquidated funds.
• Prepare financial forecasts using data from the ABM Tool and manage spend plan entries within the ABM Tool.
• Research unliquidated obligations and prepare the documentation to clear previous year ULOs.
• Apply cost expertise in the areas: requirements generation process; planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process; and program life cycle.
• Periodically provide reports and briefings to stakeholders, interpreting and translating complex financial analysis and clearly articulating assumptions and recommendations
• Respond to data calls.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualification Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree (preferably in a financial or business discipline) plus 4 years of relative experience. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree 8 years of experience.
• Familiarity with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Guidance, Department of Defense (DoD) Financial Management Regulation (FMR) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-11
• Familiarity of current DoD budgetary principles and their associated operational impact
• Familiarity with Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submission process with DoD organizations and/or Military services
• Experience writing and or researching within DoD Appropriations and budget documents
• Experience with the execution DWCF and Appropriated funding
• Excellent written communication skills

• Expert level user of Microsoft Office Software and SharePoint
• Experience writing official public releases, strategy documents and or DoD communications experience is highly desired

• Clearance Requirements:
  Secret
  

Place of Performance:
Hybrid- telework and on-site (as needed)