Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

This vacancy is to fill two Budget Analyst positions in the Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Chief Financial Officer, Director of Administration, Office of the Comptroller, within the Department of Commerce.

If interested, you are encouraged to apply! Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S.

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards.

This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

To qualify at the GS-14 level, you must meet the specialized experience requirement described below, and the experience must be demonstrated in your resumé.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: One full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience at the GS-13 level or equivalent in the Federal service performing the following duties: Experience planning, organizing, and carrying out substantive budget formulation, justification, and execution for key program components, and Experience applying a wide range of financial/budget analysis functions using detailed knowledge of budget concepts, principles, practices, appropriation laws and regulations, i.e., OMB A-11, and Experience providing budget projections, funding requirements, program performance evaluations and articulating recommendations to senior-level officials.

Major Duties:

As a Budget Analyst, you will: Serve as the Bureau's technical budget advisor on assigned programs.

Plan, organize, and carry out a major, substantive budget for significant program components, ensuring the effective integration of a wide range of administrative, technical, and analytical duties in the formulation, execution, presentation, and review of budget and financial operations.

Participate in the establishment of budget planning allowances for future budget years, considering Bureau-wide and the Department of Commerce's policies, legislative and fiscal constraints.

Serve as the functional point of contact for day-to-day budget/financial issues.

Provide advice and guidance to Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) senior managers concerning budgeting and related information and conduct analyses, reviews, and special studies of budget and/or related information.

Recommend alternatives and funding, when necessary, and appropriate courses of action regarding budgetary requirements.

This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Budget Analyst GS-0560-14, full performance level GS-14 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.