Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

About the Position: The Alaska District is seeking to fill a Budget Analyst position in the Resource Management Division, Manpower & Budget Office who will serve as senior budget analyst with responsibility for coordinating and performing program planning, budgeting, analysis and reporting for a wide variety of functional elements and funding sources.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1.) applying established fiscal policies, procedures, and regulations to manage program funds or operating budgets for an organization; and 2.) monitoring and reporting of financial data using various analytical techniques or systems.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11).

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Major Duties:

• Serve as senior budget analyst with responsibility for coordinating and performing program planning, budgeting, analysis and reporting for a wide variety of functional elements and funding sources.
• Advise program managers and other interested parties on the status and availability of funds on programs and all regulatory aspects and command financial management processes applicable to their programs.
• Develop systems, methods and procedures for the financial management of directed programs and customer reimbursable work, to include a wide variety of funding, e.g. MILCON, RDTE, Revolving Fund, USACE Civil Works, local, state or federal agencies.
• Participate and/or lead meetings concerning Command operating programs; advises on the financial status of programs, business processes, discusses operations of the command, progress and accomplishments, and probable effects of alternative actions.
• Train new analysts, interns; assist with new, unusual, controversial assignments; conduct financial management orientation and teach fiscal law to new managers; advise supervisor of workload imbalances; recommends workload redistribution.