Budget Analyst

At the full performance level you will be responsible for planning implementing and administering the full spectrum of budget and financial management selected for this position you will receive formal and/or on-the-job training as needed. Duties include:

• Gathering and consolidating narrative information and statistical data needed for budget operations and financial reporting
• Researching legal regulatory program and budgetary information
• Monitoring and tracking obligations and expenditures for the office
• Verifying that obligations and expenditures occur on a timely basis in accordance with regulatory controls
• Providing information based on the products of the financial management system
• Analyzing expenditure data to identify variables affecting costs
• Preparing annual administrative budgets and operating plans
• Providing a wide variety of budgetary reports

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint credit and tax checks and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service if applicable.
• If selected you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

Qualifications

GS-9: To be eligible at the GS-9 level you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions as defined below: Specialized Experience Education a combination of Education and Experience.

Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 experience is defined as experience performing budget or financial management work which demonstrates a basic knowledge of commonly used budget and finance principles practices and methods to perform a range of routine budget execution formulation and financial reporting. Examples of specialized experience include formulating budgetary estimates comparing projected costs with prior expenditures monitoring the rate and number of expenditures for specific items consolidating budgetary data and researching financial regulatory material to obtain information.

Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g. Accounting Financial Management Public Administration Business Administration): a Masters 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.

Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. To qualify based on a combination graduate education must be more than 1 full year.

GS-11: To be eligible at the GS-11 level you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions as defined below: Specialized Experience Education OR a combination of Education and Experience.

Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing budget or financial management work which demonstrates knowledge of budget and finance principles practices and methods to perform budget execution formulation financial reporting and internal control functions. Examples of specialized experience include gathering statistical data needed for financial reporting reviewing the accuracy of budget and program data monitoring obligations and expenditures and compiling budget requests.

Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g. Accounting Financial Management Public Administration Business Administration): a Ph.D. or equivalent doctorate degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; or LL.M if related.

Combining Education and Experience: Combinations of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. To qualify based on a combination graduate education must be more than 2 full years.

GS-12: To be eligible at the GS-12 grade level you must meet the following specialized experience condition statement defined below.

Specialized Experience: One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 experience is defined as performing budget or financial management work which demonstrates an intensive knowledge of budget and finance policies principles and practices sufficient to manage the budget process. Examples of specialized experience include formulating and executing the budget; overseeing financial management operations; conducting audits tracking funds and developing statistical reports.


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