Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

This position has primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining a complex integrated system of financial systems, appropriations, and services which contribute to the effective management control over facility operations.

At a minimum, these services include budgeting, workload/cost analysis, payroll, and active participation in the overall planning and managerial financial analysis and reporting.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/30/2026.

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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service.

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-9: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Knowledge of the principles, concepts, methodology of budget formulation to review, edit and consolidate budget estimates from the organization and adjust data in related forms and schedules.

Knowledge of principles, practices, and methods of budget execution to determine whether obligations, expenditures, and requested allotments are within funding limitations in the approved budget.

Knowledge of and skill in performing functions associated with the operating system and software capability to manipulate data, perform queries, and produce reports.

Skill in communicating orally and in writing to obtain and provide information related to budget matters. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience.

To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B.

or J.D., if related. 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 1 year graduate level education.

Specialized Experience GS-11: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Examples of specialized experience would typically include: detailed knowledge of health care center budgetary process, procedures, regulations, policies, etc., in order to formulate the health care center's annual budget plan; evaluating the impact of program changes on the health care center's budgetary goals for the purpose of making recommendations to management regarding budgetary actions necessary to achieve these goals; knowledge of budgetary and financial interrelations between agency components and organization; knowledge of accounting and cost allocation principles in order to locate and analyze sources of data that will serve as basis for budgetary projections and recommendations; evaluating actual vs.

planned expenditures and trends in the expenditures of funds for the purpose of assuring program objectives and verifying that funds are being expended properly and effectively; and, formulation process of distribution workload data as it relates to facility expenditures for preparation of cost distribution.

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

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 master's or equivalent graduate 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:

Major duties include: Incumbent performs duties with little direction or guidance, independently and with little supervision, to perform a variety of complex budgetary and administrative responsibilities in implementing the AVAHCS budgetary program, policies, and procedures.

Incumbent independently researches, prepares, and defends position regarding budgetary and financial reports to management.

With minimal supervision, incumbent independently compiles, consolidates reviews, analyzes, and edits those portions of budget estimates which pertain to personnel salaries and expenses.

Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual and multi-year budget estimates for assigned organizations and programs into an annual budget proposal.

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

Incumbent revises data, as necessary, for inclusion in budget reports and schedules furnished to top management, VA Headquarters, and the Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN).

With independent initiative and with little supervision, incumbent calculates standard level user cost and cost estimates of the value of the personnel salaries and expense portion of reimbursable services provided by the Service Chiefs and Fund Control Point Officials.

Performing required research and staff work, incumbent drafts standards and procedures for reimbursement to be included in formal agreements with customers and organizations which purchase services.

Analyzes and forecasts operational budget for the facility, and for changes in nature, type, and costs of services produced.

Monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding, such as direct single and multi-year appropriations, allotments from many different appropriations, transfers of funds from other agencies, as well as reimbursable agreements.

Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt, obligation, or expenditure of funds to ensure that objectives of the annual financial plan are being met on a timely basis and that funds are available and being properly and effectively used to support program objectives.

Performs an in-depth analysis of budget requests, considers unforeseen factors in development and production, shifts in project direction or emphasis, and identifies requests not included in planned programs and explores alternative sources of funding.

Develops justification and impact statements and compiles data to be used for forecasting obligations on station Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.

Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Work Schedule: Monday -Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM Telework: This position may be authorized for ad-hoc telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD504-01200-0 and PD504-01201-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized