Budget Officer

Job Title

The Budget Officer is responsible for:

• Providing authoritative leadership and directing, planning, organizing, and integrating all phases of the USCIS budget planning, formulation and execution activities that involve complex multi-appropriation, multi-million-dollar funding structures.
• Managing and overseeing fiscal year budget preparations and implementation and preparing annual operating plans and recurring reports for submission to the DHS, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and Congress.
• Providing oversight of USCIS budgeting activities to ensure appropriate and efficient use of approved funding in compliance with appropriations law to prevent excess obligations and expenditures, waste, fraud, and abuse of USCIS financial transactions.
• Serving as an authoritative consultant and advisor for a broad spectrum of extremely challenging budgetary/financial issues.
• Identifying and analyzing emerging budgetary issues, synthesizing complex materials, and recommending appropriate courses of action.
• Providing direction in the planning, organizing, and development and conduct of analyses and evaluations of USCIS budgetary strategies, policies, and practices that significantly impact the budget and course of USCIS programs.
• Responding to DHS inquiries and works through the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on OMB and/or Congressionally ordered actions and requests regarding a full range of high-level budgetary issues.
• Providing overall budgetary/financial expertise to internal and external customers and staff and leads the preparation and analysis of a variety of complex budgetary and financial reports.
• Establishing goals, objectives, priorities, and deadlines for work performed by the Office; assigning work based on priorities, complexity of projects and employee capability; providing leadership to promote the efficient management of Office resources and assets.
• Providing leadership in dealing successfully with high level officials within and outside Federal Government, State and local government, and in representing the organization to Congress, other departments and agencies.