Budget Analyst

Job Title

Budget Analyst

Duties

Major duties include:

• Experience using polices, practices and procedures governing budget administration to develop policies and procedures to control the use of funds for salary and expenses.
• Evaluates data submitted for consistency with previous estimates, current levels of program operations, and anticipated changes in staffing and/or funding levels.
• Reviews requests for allocation of funds for compliance to rules, regulations and procedures prescribed by department headquarters.
• Prepares a monthly cost distribution report to monitor budget execution and provide future year funding data, by using worksheet inputs and ensuring discrepancies are resolved.
• Prepares worksheets, budget forms, and statistical summaries needed to formulate the organizational budget for submission to headquarters.
• Prepares a wide variety of recurring and ad hoc statistical reports on the status of funds, expenses, obligations, and staffing.
• Prepares fund distribution worksheets from basic budget submissions and verifies that decreases or increases are reflected accurately.
• Responsible for the execution of one budget year while preparing the formulation of another budget cycle.
• Independently plans, interprets and carries out assigned budget activities and coordinates work efforts as necessary.
• Must meet rigid deadlines in the budget process.
• Performs in-depth analysis of budget requests and continually analyzes and compares objectives, programs, and activities.
• Develops forecasting techniques, programming and reprogramming during budget cycles based on the instability of budget programs and provides advice on effective and efficient use of funds.
• Continually reviews the propriety of obligations and expenditures, planned versus actual and provides technical guidance on the use of funds for programs.
• Closely monitors use and rate of expenditure of funds through daily contact with operating officials.
• Conducts cost studies of programs on a quantitative and/or qualitative basis to track and analyze effectiveness and prepares status reports for review at all levels.
• Develops procedures for estimating budgets and meets with operating officials to discuss and interpret projected requirements.
• Provides historical data, objectives, and workload statistics to assist officials in developing estimates of funding needs.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday; 8:00 am to 4:30 pm; subject to change based on the needs of the facility. Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/ PD84182A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized