Senior Budget Analyst

Senior Budget and Cost Analyst

Clearance: CURRENT/ACTIVE TOP SECRET clearance with eligibility to obtain SCI access

Location: 5 days on-site, Ft. Meade, MD

Direct Hire

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes financial data related to operations, business performance, opportunities, and investments.
• Supports the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process within the organization by preparing budget Program Objectives Memorandum (POM) submissions and correlating the submissions to the Agency's strategy and or funding requirements.
• Conducts analysis of budget artifacts (Advana/Qlik Sense Hub; investment descriptions, categorization of service and agency efforts to investment descriptions, Congressional Budget Justifications, budget baselines, etc.)
• Identifies and proposes funding solutions for the portfolio
• Reviews and analyzes budget proposals and funding requests, along with identifying anticipated impact on proposed decisions for the portfolio
• Collaborates with project managers to develop a budget and manage through execution.
• Conducts cost-benefit analyses to determine value.
• Reviews funding requests and makes recommendations to the Government.
• Performs analysis on budget to develop leadership insights and presenting results
• Reviews budget recommendations with senior leaders.
• Conducts spend plan preparation and maintenance, budget exhibit preparation, and financial execution metrics tracking and reporting.
• Tracks, monitors, and documents funding move requests for the organization through Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs).
• Monitors spending to ensure it remains within budget.
• Estimating and forecasting future financial needs.
• On behalf of the Government Customers, prepares funds briefings, financial planning requirements, budget reviews and congressional submissions, financial data calls, annual program plans, open commitment/open obligation reports, and funding documents.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of DoD financial planning and analysis experience
• 5+ years of experience as part of a Program/Budget Execution office
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with the DoD planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process
• Experience analyzing financial data related to operations, business performance, opportunities, and investments.
• Experience preparing spend plans, budget exhibit preparation, and financial execution metrics tracking and reporting.
• Extensive experience preparing funds briefings, financial planning requirements, budget reviews and congressional submissions, financial data calls, annual program plans, open commitment/open obligation reports, and funding documents.
• Requires deep experience creating and reviewing MIPRs for Government approval
• Knowledge of DAI
• Experience working with classified systems and environments
• Strong organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills with impeccable multi-tasking abilities
• Proven stakeholder management and effective communication strategies with clients and senior management.
• Ability to take a conceptual discussion and build a presentation to convey the message to senior leaders.
• Strong technical writing and documentation skills
• Advanced MS Sharepoint, Word, and PowerPoint skills; proficient MS Teams, Excel and Outlook application skills

Desired Skills:

• Prior Federal government, professional services or Federal consulting experience
• Professional Certifications such as PMP, ITIL, Lean, Scrum, SAFe, Agile
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, methodology, techniques, and technologies, as well as cloud architecture.
• Experience performing on projects of similar size and scope.

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field

Security Pre-requisite:

• To be considered, must have a CURRENT/ACTIVE TOP SECRET clearance with eligibility to obtain SCI access.

Office Location and Travel: • Will be required to report on-site at the Ft. Meade, MD location 5 days a week. • Some CONUS travel in support of the Government Customer MAY be required