Budget Analyst

• Reviews edits and consolidates annual and multi-year budget estimates.
• Prepares or edits justifications and projected funding needs and ensures data in requests are formally and accurately documented.
• Monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding.
• Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt obligation or expenditure of funds.
• Conducts special studies and analysis to develop required data and information for reporting.
• Prepare administrative reports.
• Prepares and presents financial briefings.
• Prepares documents needed to process budget estimates or requests for supplemental appropriations.
• Performs analyses of budget requests.
• Develops justification and impact statements and compiles data to be used in forecasting obligations.
• Ability to adapt to unforeseen factors and shifts in program direction and emphasis as well as requests not included in planned programs by exploring alternative funding sources.
• Detailed intensive knowledge of the policies precedents goals objectives regulations and guidelines of budget formulation.
• Extensive knowledge of budget execution in order to monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate continual changes in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones.
• Ability to analyze financial and budgetary relationships and develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment. A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement 02/09/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade as required by the this instance you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

• Specialized Experience GS-11 : You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Detailed intensive knowledge of the policies precedents goals objectives regulations and guidelines of budget formulation sufficient to review edit and consolidate annual and multi-year budget estimates for assigned medical facility organizations and programs; Extensive knowledge of budget execution in order to monitors the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding; Ability to analyze and evaluate continual changes in program plans and funding and their effect on financial and budget program milestones; Ability to analyze financial and budgetary relationships and develop recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions.

• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M. if related. NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a graduate level degree and specialized experience to qualify. NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

Required Experience:

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