Budget Analyst

Budget Analyst

Areas of Consideration: Current, permanent employees of Department Veterans Affairs and CTAP eligibles. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Total Rewards Work Schedule: Monday- Friday 8:00AM to 4:30 PM Telework: This position is considered onsite. Ad-Hoc telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst / PD46968A and PD46969A

Physical Demands: The work is primarily sedentary. The position uses a computer and standard office equipment to complete tasks. Work may also require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. On occasion, the position may carry light items.

This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-11. At the GS-9 grade level, you will perform assignments of a more limited scope and with less independence. You will progressively acquire the background necessary to perform at the full performance level of GS-11. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher level work, and availability of funds. Promotion is not guaranteed and no promise of promotion is implied.

Major Duties

• Reconciles cost control records with monthly, quarterly, and annual fiscal reports.
• Involved in the procurement process and has appropriate roles within the IFCAP system for the R&D service fund control points (FCP).
• Serves as a Contracting Officer Representative to prepare Statement of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Conduct Market Research, develop evaluation criteria and acquisition plans for equipment purchase packages, monitor contracts and and submit performance evaluations
• Serves as an expert on research-related budgetary policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations, and guidelines; and uses judgment in choosing and applying the appropriate policies, practices, and regulations for the specific funding agency or research activity.
• Conducts limited studies and analyses to develop required data and information for reporting purposes; and prepares administrative reports.
• Ensures that funds are available and being properly and effectively used to support program objectives.
• Performs analyses of budget requests, prepares justification statements, and compiles data to be used for forecasting obligations.
• Reviews, edits, and consolidates annual budget estimates for assigned organizations and programs into a single budget request.
• Prepares documents needed to process budget estimates, including Bills of Collections, requests budget requisitions to commit funds, writes reports that detail the purposes for which funds were obligated and expended.
• Edits narrative justifications and projected funding needs, and ensures that data in requests are formally and accurately documented in a forms, schedules, and reports.
• Prepare Statement of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Conduct Market Research, develop evaluation criteria and acquisition plans for equipment purchase packages.
• Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt, obligation, or expenditure of funds to ensure that objectives of the annual financial plan are being met on a timely basis.
• Oversee all aspects of the Research Service fiscal program in conjunction with the AO and ACOS for Research, and to strategically plan, prepare, and carry out the fiscal program for Research Service, both immediate and long-range plans. This requires the ability to develop budgetary plans, projections, and reports, and to interpret information received from ORD, the individual VA Research programs, Fiscal Service, and other sources.