Budget Analyst

Senior Budget Analyst (Specialist) - Hybrid #910Washington, District of Columbia, United StatesSenior Budget Analyst (Specialist) - Hybrid #910Clearance: Public Trust RequiredLocation: Washington D.C./HybridPosition SummaryThe Senior Budget Analyst (Specialist) provides advanced budget execution, formulation support, financial analysis, and resource-management expertise to NTIA. The position develops actionable insight into funding, staffing, portfolio performance, and emerging resource requirements so leaders can make timely, fiscally responsible decisions.Primary ResponsibilitiesLead budget execution and resource analyses involving funding availability, commitments, obligations, expenditures, burn rates, variances, staffing, and projected requirements.Develop recurring and ad hoc budget reports, forecasts, spend plans, operating plans, briefing materials, and executive decision-support products.Conduct what-if, trend, and variance analyses; identify funding risks, unfunded requirements, emerging issues, and opportunities to realign resources.Support portfolio-management activities by integrating financial, staffing, program, and operational data across organizations or initiatives.Coordinate budget data calls, validate submissions, reconcile data across systems and source documents, and maintain defensible audit trails.Advise program and operational stakeholders on budget processes, funding status, reporting requirements, and the implications of resource decisions.Support year-end closeout, continuing-resolution planning, funding changes, audit requests, executive taskers, and temporary surge requirements.Create and improve templates, SOPs, workflows, metrics, dashboards, and controls that strengthen budget visibility and reporting consistency.Use clear, accurate, objective, and timely reporting methods and safeguard sensitive financial information.Minimum RequirementsBachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a closely related field.At least seven years of progressively responsible budget or financial-analysis experience, including substantial federal budget execution or resource-management experience.Demonstrated ability to analyze obligations, expenditures, funding availability, burn rates, variances, staffing costs, and forecasts.Experience preparing executive-level budget briefings, data calls, spend plans, operating plans, and decision-support analyses.Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience using federal financial-management or reporting systems.Strong analytical, organizational, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and short deadlines.Ability to obtain and maintain the Public Trust designation or security clearance required for the assigned work.Desired QualificationsMaster's degree or CGFM, CDFM, or equivalent Government financial-management certification.Experience with Oracle Federal Financials (Business Application Systems), PRISM, Power BI, Tableau, or SharePoint.Working knowledge of the federal budget cycle, appropriations law, OMB guidance, apportionment, reprogramming, and year-end closeout.Experience integrating budget, staffing, acquisition, and program-performance data for portfolio decisions.Experience supporting NTIA, the Department of Commerce, or another federal civilian agency.