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Posted: April 10, 2026 (4 days ago)

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Budget Analyst

Patent and Trademark Office

Department of Commerce

Fresh

Location

Salary

$143,913 - $187,093

per year

Closes

GS-13 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $88,520 - $115,079

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-12. Expert-level knowledge in field.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves helping manage the massive budget for the U.S.

Patent and Trademark Office by preparing financial plans, analyzing spending data, and creating reports to guide senior leaders on funding decisions.

It's a leadership role in budget planning and execution for a large federal agency.

A good fit would be someone with strong financial analysis skills, experience in government budgeting, and the ability to explain complex numbers clearly to executives.

Key Requirements

  • Specialized experience equivalent to GS-12 level in federal service, including budget formulation for multi-year programs in agencies with budgets over $1 billion
  • Knowledge of federal regulations like OMB Circular A-11 for budget compliance
  • Experience drafting or analyzing budget justifications, such as staffing models and funding requests
  • Skills in compiling multi-year financial projections, including cost-revenue comparisons and data synthesis into graphs, charts, and reports
  • Proficiency in budget allocation methods like split allocations, activity-based costing, and revenue-based approaches for decision-making
  • Ability to create and present financial data visualizations and analyses for senior management
  • Experience developing multi-year compensation estimates using OPM guidelines

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Budget Execution Division, Office of Planning and Budget (OPB), Office of the Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

The OPB supports the mission of the USPTO by ensuring that the agency's annual performance supports the strategic plan, through efficient and effective budget execution, and by providing actionable budget and performance information to executive management.

You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position.

You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. OPM Qualifications Standards are available at Administrative and Management Positions.

Specialized Experience is experience that has equipped applicants with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the federal service. For this position, the next lower grade level is a GS-13.

Specialized experience for this position includes: ???????

Experience assisting with the formulation of budget estimates for multi-year programs in an agency with an operating budget of at least one billion dollars and ensuring compliance with federal regulations to include but not limited to OMB Circular A-11; Experience drafting or analyzing budget justification documentation, e.g.

staffing models or funding requests to demonstrate support of agency priorities and critical need; Experience compiling multi-year financial projections including comparison of cost and revenue and detailed financial estimates as well as synthesizing data into graphs, charts, and reports; and Experience using budget allocation methodologies, (e.g.

split allocations, activity-based costing and/ or revenue information) and applying it for high level decision making Experience creating and presenting financial data visualizations, summaries, and data analysis used for senior management for decision making.

Experience developing multi-year compensation estimates using OPM guidelines.

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).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

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

The physical worksite for this position is located in Alexandria, Virginia.

Presence at the Alexandria, VA campus is required for this role, as it includes on site functions that must be performed in person.

Position may be eligible for situational telework in accordance with agency policy/business unit discretion. The agency currently allows for 52 hours of telework per calendar year.

This position serves as a budget analyst, as well as the director for budget and planning division.

This is your next ideal career move if: You are driven to serve as a source of technical budget information for internal and external customers and guidance on budgetary requirements to management.

You are eager to develop, recommend and implement budgetary policies affecting the financing and accomplishment of programs.

You are driven to planning, organizing, and carrying out budget related tasks including analyzing budget estimates and potential impacts of budget decisions on national economic, social and political objectives.

You enjoy communicating clearly and effectively with senior leadership to discuss the appropriate budgetary action to be taken in order to meet agency priorities.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/10/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/14/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: TMCO - OCFO-26-12928328-MP