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Budget Analyst

Veterans Health Administration

Department of Veterans Affairs

Fresh

Location

Salary

$74,678 - $97,087

per year

Closes

February 9, 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 forecasting budgets for a veterans' health facility, ensuring funds are used efficiently and on time to support organizational goals.

The role requires reviewing budget plans, tracking spending from various sources, and preparing reports and briefings on financial matters.

It's a good fit for detail-oriented professionals with experience in financial analysis or budgeting, especially those interested in public service within the federal government.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-09 level, including budget formulation, execution, and analysis
  • Knowledge of federal budget policies, regulations, and guidelines
  • Ability to monitor budgets with multiple funding sources and analyze financial trends
  • Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 years of progressively higher graduate education (related field), or a combination of education and experience
  • Current federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirement of 52 weeks at GS-09
  • Submission of SF-50 form to demonstrate time-in-grade eligibility
  • Transcripts required if qualifying based on education

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.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/09/2026.

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 GS-11 : You must have one year of specialized 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: Detailed, intensive knowledge of the policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations, and guidelines of budget formulation sufficient to review, edit, and consolidate annual and multi-year budget estimates for assigned medical facility organizations and programs; Extensive knowledge of budget execution in order to monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding; Ability to analyze and evaluate continual changes in program plans and funding, and their effect on financial and budget program milestones; Ability to analyze financial and budgetary relationships, and develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions.

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

NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level.

You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a graduate level degree and specialized experience to qualify.

NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

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:

Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual and multi-year budget estimates.

Prepares or edits justifications and projected funding needs and ensures data in requests are formally and accurately documented.

Monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding. Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt, obligation, or expenditure of funds.

Conducts special studies and analysis to develop required data and information for reporting. Prepare administrative reports. Prepares and presents financial briefings.

Prepares documents needed to process budget estimates or requests for supplemental appropriations. Performs analyses of budget requests.

Develops justification and impact statements, and compiles data to be used in forecasting obligations.

Ability to adapt to unforeseen factors and shifts in program direction and emphasis, as well as requests not included in planned programs by exploring alternative funding sources.

Detailed, intensive knowledge of the policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations, and guidelines of budget formulation.

Extensive knowledge of budget execution in order to monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding.

Ability to analyze and evaluate continual changes in program plans and funding, and their effect on financial and budget program milestones.

Ability to analyze financial and budgetary relationships, and develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions.

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

Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD12712A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/28/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/29/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: CBSU-12873795-26-KH