Role: Budget Analyst
Location: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Education/Certifications: BA/BS or higher; MA/MS in a related field may be substituted for 3 years of experience; additional years of experience may substitute for higher education
Years of Experience: 5+ years of experience providing budget & financial supporting a Defense Acquisition program office; MA/MS in related field can substitute for 3 years of experience (2+ years total); additional 5 years of experience can be used in lieu of degree (10+ years total)
Clearance Level & Investigation: Secret
Job Description:
- Provide budget planning support to allow Customer to develop input to the DoD and Army planning, programming, budget, and execution (PPBE) system and to efficiently and effectively manage funds appropriated for completion of assigned projects.
- Assist in production of budget submission documents such as P Forms and R Forms and track status of funds received, obligated, and committed during previous and current budget years.
- Analyze engineering, logistics, budget, programmatic, and operations information and data in relation to program objectives, budgetary constraints, schedules and technical requirements to present project status, program accomplishments, long-term plans, and recommendations for systems to meet life cycle performance requirements.
- Provide inputs and recommendations in the development of spend plans and provide data analysis and spreadsheets to assist in the management of the program.
- Assist the Government in conducting integrated baseline reviews, compliance integrated baseline reviews, compliance reviews and cost/schedule status report reviews as needed in support of programs.
- Assist in the preparation, review, and update of business management correspondence.
- Assist the Government in performing research and analysis to develop supporting documentation to include such items as programming, program objective memorandum, purchase request forms, and business management data calls task requirements in addition to preparing and submitting programmatic/budget data into designated acquisition and financial databases.
- Assist the Government in preparing, analyzing, coordinating, and updating budgetary documentation for final review and approval by the Government, including, but not limited to: documentation for program requirements; cost and manpower requirements estimates; justification for costs and manpower; justification for delays in program spending; modifications to program budget submittals and back-up data/charts to support the estimates for systems; program and budget submissions; program office estimates; OMB reports; congressional inquiries; audits; other programmatic documentation; and information papers and briefings.
- Assist the Government in the preparation of budgetary documents and reports for review and approval by the Government to include, but not limited to, military interdepartmental purchase requests (MIPR), performance work directives, and status of funds reports utilizing the following financial execution systems: General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS), GFEBS Sensitive Activities (SA) and Logistics Modernization Program (LMP).
- Provide subject matter expertise in the execution of Army and non- Army funding, to include, but not limited to, outside agency funding such as FMS, Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA), Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E), Other Procurement, Army (OPA), Aircraft Procurement, Army (APA); must possess expertise and understanding of the various dollar types for execution within an appropriation to include Base funding, Overseas Operating Costs (OOC) funding, European Deterrence Initiate (EDI) and other special categories of funds such as the Ukraine Supplemental.
- Provide GFEBS expertise to business management in support of GFEBS Basic and GFEBS SA system support for business and financial transactions, analysis, funds distribution and reporting, system reporting, audit support, and work with programs and GFEBS Administration to resolve system operational and access issues and submitting GFEBS helpdesk tickets.
- Support and engage with programs to guide and support them through business management tasks (e.g., spend plan, GFEBS WBS establishment and maintenance for funding, joint program reconciliation, budget reconciliation and execution tasks), acquisition milestone tasks, decisions, and events.
- Serve as GFEBS expert and work to coordinate the research and resolution of Intermediate Document (IDOC) errors for all interfaces – Funds Control Module (FCM), Defense Travel System (DTS), Third Party Payment System (TPPS), Automated Time Attendance and Production System (ATAAPS), Defense Civilian Pay System (DCPS), LMP, Standard Procurement System (SPS), Government purchase card (GPC) in support of business management activities and prepare status reports.
- Assist the Government in the tracking of Contractors’ planned budget against obligations and work performed and identify discrepancies, areas of ambiguities, and significant cost variations.
Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of experience providing budget & financial supporting a Defense Acquisition program office.
- Extensive working experience with w/DoD/Army Financial databases (GFEBS & LMP, C-Probe, LMP and CCAR).
- BA/BS or higher.
- Experience completing Program Objective Memorandums (POM) documents, procurement forms (P-Forms), research, develop, test, and evaluation forms (R-Forms), operations and maintenance forms (O-forms).
- An additional 5 years of experience in a related field may be substituted for education.
- A Master’s degree or higher in a related field may be substituted for 3 years of experience.
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