Lead Budget Analyst

Full Job Description

As a Lead Budget Analyst with the Resource Management Branch at Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC), you will lead a team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees; arranging for team member training; and monitoring and reporting on the status and progress of work.

You will also assist the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Resources (DCFO-R) in providing the overall planning, integration, technical expertise, and analysis of resource operations.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work.

To qualify for GS-14, you must have one year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level: Developing and administering procedures for multi-year budget planning, estimating, and execution; Applying financial and/or resource management (budget) methods, practices, procedures, regulations, policies and processes; Utilizing full cost/budget principles, processes and structures, and the interrelationships among accounting, budgeting and supporting financial systems.

Your resume must include a clear and detailed narrative description, in your own words, of how you meet the required specialized experience.

Experience statements copied from a position description, vacancy announcement or other reference material constitutes plagiarism and may result in disqualification and losing consideration for the job.

NASA prohibits the use of artificial intelligence (AI) or AI-assisted tool in drafting application and assessment responses.

Please visit https://www.nasa.gov/careers/how-to-apply/#Artificial-Intelligence to review NASA's guidance on the use of AI tools during the application process. Major Duties:

• Assists the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for Resources (DCFO-R) to lead the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload among employees; arranging for team member training; monitors and reports on the status and progress of work.
• Assists the DCFO-R in the Management and Overseer of budget operations described as: Budget formulation and execution for an Agency organization or program.
• Reviews and formulates budget policy and guidance for use in developing an integrated budget for a significant organizational component or to fulfill multi-year objectives for a program with national impact.
• Receives and interprets the budget call considering OMB (Office of Management and Budget), Treasury Department, Agency, and Congressional regulations and directives.
• Performs budget execution work involving the most difficult fund control activities including adapting budgetary policies, analytical methods, and regulatory procedures for use by subordinate units, and their centralized or consolidated equivalent.
• Participates in budgeting activities and is responsible for bringing together the work of the technical managers, the institutional managers, and resources management specialists in preparing the Center Budget.
• Presents, justifies, and negotiates budget requirements with selected officials at NASA Headquarters including institutional officers, program managers and the Office of the NASA Chief Financial Officer.
• Assists the DCFO-R to apply a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze and improve organizational effectiveness.