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Budget Analyst

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

Fresh

Location

Salary

$81,186 - $105,547

per year

Closes

February 24, 2026

GS-11 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $62,107 - $80,737

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-10. Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This job involves managing and tracking budgets for a veterans' health care system, ensuring money is spent wisely and on time to support medical services and programs.

The role includes preparing financial reports, forecasting needs, and using computer systems to monitor spending.

It's a good fit for someone detail-oriented with experience in finance or budgeting, especially in government or healthcare settings.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized budget experience equivalent to GS-09 level, such as reviewing and consolidating budget estimates
  • Time-in-grade requirement: 52 weeks at GS-09 for current federal employees
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills for interacting with internal and external stakeholders
  • Proficiency in utilizing automated financial systems to monitor expenditures and generate reports
  • Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years of graduate education in a related field (transcripts required), or a combination of education and experience
  • Ability to prepare financial briefings, narrative justifications, and annual budget plans

Full Job Description

The Purpose of the Position is: To accurately forecast and document the organizational budget; and to promote organizational effectiveness and efficiency by ensuring that revenues and expenditures are being used in a timely manner.

The organizational location of the position: Budget Section, Fiscal Service, VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTXHCS), Dallas, TX.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/24/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials.

If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement.

In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized ( Budget) experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Reviews, edits, and consolidates budget estimates for assigned organizations and programs; Prepares and presents financial briefings.; Utilizing automated systems to monitor expenditures; Communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to relate to internal and external customers appropriately and courteously.

OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have Education: Ph.D.

or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED).

OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond a Bachelor's Degree.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Major Duties:

Duties include but are not limited to: he incumbent serves as the Budget Analyst for the VANTXHCS.

In this capacity, the incumbent monitors the execution of a budget for annual and multi-year appropriations in support of medical care, research, general post fund, CWT dollars and non-appropriated revenue administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the execution of budgets through which national programs are funded.

The incumbent provides periodic reports and other financial information generated from the PAID Database, the FMS, FRS, VSSC, SASDOWN, IPPS and IFCAP systems.

Reviews, edits, and consolidates budget estimates for assigned organizations and programs into a single budget request.

Prepares or edits narrative justifications and projected funding needs and ensures that data in requests are formally and accurately documented in a wide variety of unrelated forms, schedules, and reports.

Develops and formulates data and prepare the Annual Budget Plan. Prepares VISN Obligation Report (VOR) with supporting work papers and presents to Fiscal management.

Analyzes and validates Target Allowance Distribution worksheets received from VHA Headquarters and VISN Office.

Provides technical assistance and guidance to all Medical Center Programs for established policies, regulations, procedures, and changes in the preparation of their budget requests.

Provides information to the Supervisory Budget Analyst that will help to determine the validity of requests for additional funds or overtime funding for fund control points and services.

Work Schedule: Monday -Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD00060A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

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Posted on USAJOBS: 2/5/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 2/6/2026

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