Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Fiscal Service of the VA Medical Center in Muskogee, OK.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS One year specialized experience that equipped you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level.

Examples of specialized experience include: experience applying policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations, and guidelines of budget formulation; preparing administrative and financial reports; and communicating verbally and in writing with management/staff to answer questions and provide information on funding levels and obligations and expenditures in support of the organization.

This experience must be detailed in your resume to receive credit.

~OR~ A Ph.D., equivalent doctoral degree, 3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.M.

in a related field that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work.

One year of full-time graduate education is the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study.

If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement.

Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended. Transcripts required.

~OR~ An equivalent combination of specialized experience and progressively higher level graduate education as described that demonstrates your ability to perform the duties of the position.

Experience must be detailed in your resume and transcripts required.

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:

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual and multi-year 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; Analyzes forecasts for customers such as the agency and the public their demands for services; and for changes in nature, type, and cost of services produced; Monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding such as direct multi-year appropriations, allotments from many different appropriations, transfers of funds from other agencies, reimbursements for services performed, revenue from working capital funds, and trust accounts; 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; Conducts special studies and analysis to develop required data and information for reporting purposes and prepares administrative reports; Prepares and presents financial briefings; Prepares documents needed to process budget estimates, requests for supplemental appropriations, requests for reprogramming apportionments and allotments from higher headquarters needed to finance new programs or program changes brought about by legislative action; Performs analyses of budget requests by considering unforeseen factors and shifts in program direction and emphasis, as well as 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; Performs related duties as required.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm. Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized.