Senior Financial/Budget Management Analyst

Senior Financial/Budget Management Analyst

The analyst will provide services that will allow the Cincinnati and Chillicothe VA Medical Centers to improve in strategic financial planning and budget execution fields of facility operations. The facilities have shown varying capability to plan for and monitor yearly budgeting requirements. This has led to both over and understating the yearly budgets. This makes the process of monitoring and reporting the financial position of the facilities very difficult. Patient access, ageing infrastructure issues and the presence of several old processes and programs are to cause for the difficulties in accurately budgeting and reporting.

Scope:

• The purpose of this position is to provide the full range of financial consulting services, implementation planning/training and a new planning/tracking tool to standardize processes across the two facilities.
• This includes such activities as evaluation of current practices and employee capabilities, producing training plans, conducting training with staff and assistance in implementation of a new process for budgeting, monitoring and reporting on the facilities' financial positions.

Qualifications

• Have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in business administration, accounting, economics, statistics or finances or related field from an accredited college, technical school or university.
• Possess a minimum of five (5) years relevant professional experience with proven experience.
• Must have no less than three (3) years of experience in financial management, management analysis and decision support working as a Financial Management Analyst in the area of budget formulation, budget execution, data and management analysis and decision support.
• Possess no less than three (3) years of experience with analyzing and interpreting established guidelines and directives and must be able to apply this skill in resolving fiscal issues.
• Possess comprehensive, detailed knowledge and understanding of budgetary policies, precedents, procedures, and regulations.
• Have no less than three (3) years of experience:
  • Developing quarterly financial reports for program budgets, analyzing financial reports of obligations and expenditures to identify differences between proposed changes in operating programs and projected spending, and recommending solutions to address budget shortages and fiscal problems
  • Developing budget recommendations and proposals; providing support to managers on a full range of financial management activities and functions; and leading elements of financial audit preparation to include account analyses, adjustments to the accounting system and preparation of audit samples.
  • Running reports, exporting data and using data to create professional financial reports for presentations and disseminations.
  • With at least three of the four following business management areas: developing and evaluating business plans encompassing daily, annual, and long-term strategic plans; developing and monitoring support agreements.
• Knowledge of/proficiency in:
  • Applying analytical skills and supporting development of business case analysis for various VAMC programs.
  • Pulling data from existing computer based programs.
  • Microsoft Office products to include basic word processing and spreadsheets.
  • Decision support systems.
  • Reading, writing, speaking and understanding English to effectively communicate with all staff members and stakeholders.
  • Reading and interpreting system generated data and identifying errors and taking corrective actions.
  • Formatting and analyzing raw data extracted from the system.
  • Updating and correcting information.
• Must have experience in and is familiar working with VA specific/legacy accounting systems (IFCAP/VISTA).