Budget Analyst

For Series 0560 - GS-14: Provides guidance, recommendations, and strategies regarding national budget activities, and actively resolves issues caused by conflicting budgetary, workload, and program objectives. Ensures compliance with all governing laws and regulations.

Serves as a technical authority on matters of budgetary policy, law, and regulation. Provides authoritative budgetary advice and authoritative interpretations of law and policy to high-level managers, supervisors, program managers, and lower-level personnel regarding the costs and benefits of proposed actions.

Analyzes, advises on, and recommends solutions to budgetary problems in all phases of budget/financial administration. Responsible for overseeing the formulation, presentation, and execution of an agency budget or major component involving substantive programs that are exceptionally large and complex.

Such programs have multi-million dollar grants, contracts, and/or cooperative agreements. Projects and analyzes the potential effects of budgetary actions on program viability and attainment of national program objectives.

Oversees or conducts the development, preparation, and submission of detailed analyses, estimates, proposals, and justifications for annual funding needs for all current and out-year activities.

Oversees the consolidation of lower-level annual and multi-year budget estimates and justifications for assigned organizations and/or programs into a single budget request. Reviews and evaluates the submissions from lower-level organizations.

Ensures the organization's final submission is consistent and adequately addresses special emphasis and high priority directives and all submission requirements. Oversees or conducts the execution of all budget activities and operations for the organization served.

Oversees the expenditure of direct appropriations, mandatory (permanent) appropriations, transfers from other agencies, contributions, and/or reimbursements. Certifies the availability of funds in the automated financial system. Prepares requests for apportionments, allotments, and operating budgets.

Manages complicated accounts and programs to include items such as receipt-based accounts (e.g. reimbursables, contributed funds, cost recovery), and permanent change of station moves. Prepares narrative and statistical evidence and justification in support of budget requests.

Develops strategies for presenting program budgets to the Department, OMB, and/or Congress. Responds to inquiries or data requests from the Department, OMB, GAO, or Congressional committees. Adjusts long-range plans to reflect feedback from the budget execution process and other sources.

Devises and applies innovative criteria to evaluate the progress and cost-effectiveness of program plans, goals, and objectives. Performs financial analyses to determine trends, make projections, and identify opportunities/ constraints.

For GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-13 in the Federal Service.

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Specialized experience is defined as having at least 2 of the 3 specialized experience statements below: Experience in budget formulation including briefing policy-makers and drafting budget justifications for the internal, OMB and/or Congressional budget submissions.

Experience in budget execution including apportionments, allotments, suballotments and suballocations, and tracking and reporting on status of budgetary resources.

Experience in financial management and oversight including development and monitoring of spend plans for large-scale complex federal programs, research and analysis of financial data, compiling and monitoring progress reports, reconciling discrepancies, and taking corrective actions as appropriate.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC, WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Do NOT copy and paste the duties or specialized experience from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position.