BUDGET OFFICER (Title 5)

Full Job Description

This position is located within the 149 Comptroller Flight (CPTF) located on Kelly AFB in San Antonio, TX.

The primary purpose of this position is to provide management oversight and guidance for both budget formulation and budget execution according to the Resource Management System (RMS).

Texas is one of 9 states with NO state income tax. In describing your experience in your resume, please be clear and specific. Assumptions regarding your experience will not be made.

To qualify at the GS-12 grade level your resume must include relevant experience/education with beginning and ending dates reflecting the following: Specialized Experience: At least 1-year specialized experience, education, or training equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-11).

Must have experience, education, or training that provided in-depth knowledge of financial principles and procedures.

Candidate must have a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of the National Guard financial budget business program requirements.

A candidate must have expanded experiences and training that demonstrates the abilities to lead, follow directions, read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies, and procedures.

At least 12 months of broadening finance, accounting, or audit program experiences in leading, planning and scheduling program work in a manner that promotes an even flow and distribution of assigning work requirements.

Experiences may include training and guiding employees on finance programs and assigning tasks.

Experience in structuring assignments that created effective and efficient procedures with measured and improved task processes. Major Duties:

As a Budget Officer with the Texas National Guard, your duties will include, but will not be limited to: Operates the Resource Management System, a network of commanders, resource advisors, cost center managers, and technical advisors aligned to the Wing/GSU organizational structure and oriented towards the management of appropriated funds and workdays for the accomplishment of unit missions.

Provides resource managers with necessary guidance, information, knowledge, and training to accomplish mission goals and objectives.

Designs presentation materials for, chairs, conducts, and documents the quarterly meetings of the Financial Working Group.

Serves as the principal author for local resource management policy development and publication.

Interprets guidelines issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD), the United States Air Forces and Joint Services, the National Guard Bureau (NGB), and NGB/FMA and issues supplementary authoritative budget guidance.

Ensures compatibility with financial goals and objectives issued by higher authority.

Reviews, consolidates, approves, modifies, or disapproves budgetary data and reports submitted for consistency with goals, objectives, reasonableness, and accuracy.

Serves as the principal budgetary advisor to senior leadership and top management personnel in maintaining balance, efficiency, and economy of operations to accomplish programmed objectives.

Exercises technical authority and discretion in distributing appropriated funds and workdays, approving or disapproving expenditures, validating or invalidating unfunded requirements submissions, and determining the required degree of funds control measures based on interpretations of fiscal law, the ANG Financial Guidance, generally accepted accounting principles, and locally developed resource management policy.

Oversees budget formulation, validation, compilation, and submission, requiring the frequent contact with commanders, resource advisors, higher headquarters (ANG/FMA), and field counterparts.

Develops, prepares, presents, justifies, and defends analyses and summaries of budget performance at FWG and FMB meetings, staff meetings, impromptu meetings with senior leadership, related conferences, and during compliance or readiness inspections.

Issues the annual financial plan "call" to commanders and resource advisors ensuring timely notification, clear and concise instructions, and achievable "suspenses" for all required actions.

Reviews initial funding (programmed or received) and devises and carries out apportionment to base organizations ensuring financial continuity between fiscal years.

Issues "call" for annual spend plans to commanders and resource advisors, ensuring timely notifications, clear and concise instructions, and "suspenses" for all required actions.

Reviews, validates, approves, and/or adjusts unit spend plans ensuring provision for "baseline" organizational expenses.

Reviews and apportions initial programmed or received funding for "model-driven" programs and other commodities and ensures unit program managers, resource advisors, and commanders are notified of related distributions.

Follows up on approved distributions by ensuring the prompt and accurate loading of fund targets to the accounting and supply systems, and by notifying the affected unit's resource advisor.

Ensures the summary fund targets in the accounting records match the annual and quarterly amounts on funding documents.

Ensures quarterly material targets in the accounting records match related targets in the Standard Base Supply System. Monitors the execution of the overall annual operating budget.

Reviews, analyzes, illustrates, and reports the differences between annual funding and actual expenditures for model-driven programs and discretionary funds on a continuous basis.

Identifies fund shortages and imbalances and takes action as necessary.

Investigates organizational efficiency and performance, assuring compliance with prescribed procedures and functions Issues "Call" for unfunded requirements that meet Budget Execution Review criteria ensuring timely notification, clear and concise instructions, and achievable "suspense's" for all required financial actions.

Ensures all unfunded requirements are captured, and any other shortfalls not previously identified, and submits prioritized list to before specified due dates.

Performs special studies and selective reviews of budgetary programs and procedures.

Analyzes, evaluates, and identifies the areas and types of incremental funding and workdays required, initiates corrective or improvement actions where needed, and reports overall cost to ANG/FMA.

Performs other duties as assigned.