This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida. The incumbent functions as a Supervisory Budget Analyst at the North Florida/South Georgia (NF/SG) Veterans Healthcare System, the largest in Veterans Integrated Service Network 8. He/she is responsible for planning, organizing, and coordinating the activities of the Budget Section.

Duties

Major duties include, but are not limited to: Sharing full responsibility with the Chief Fiscal Officer, providing technical advice and executing processes and making decisions on all matters relating to budget formulation, execution and management. Performing analysis of workload and budget data to identify trends and irregularities and making recommendations for improvement. Overall responsibility of the Medical Center's Budget operations and in establishing budget policies and procedures. Providing instruction to management officials during budget formulation and execution processes. Serving as the local expert in budget management and sharing the responsibility for establishing, maintaining, and supervising budget operations. Planning and coordinating annual budget hearings with medical services to gather essential and critical data for budget plan and formation. Assuring the development of data for annual and long-term budget formulation. Gathering, comparing, and correlating information about current and future programs and activities with projected costs of operation. Coordinating the compilation of presentation materials and ensuring materials are in a format acceptable to reviewing and approving authorities. Ensuring propriety of data for major programs into a wide variety of reports, forms, and schedules and ensuring consolidation of data for viable overview of the financial status of programs. Reviewing expenditures against plan and ensuring compliance with personnel salary and ceiling restrictions. Providing financial advice and performing financial assistance work for internal agency operating programs. Examples of such programs include: education, research, operations, or maintenance programs in direct support of the mission or objectives of the facility or installation. Receiving the call for the budget for internal operating programs. Interpreting the call and preparing instructions for use by the organization. Resolving complex problems of prediction and forecasting, which result from uncertainties or changes in the operating program, and for determining the propriety of systems and methods used by operating officials in developing estimates for funding requirements. Based on a variety of information, preparing estimates for projected operating budget(s) and preparing justification for the estimates. Preparing budget estimates for major substantive or administrative internal operating programs and consolidating estimates into an integrated budget forecast. Identifying and executing reprogramming actions. Reviewing progress of all obligations and maintaining sufficient familiarity with operating and financial programs to make early recommendations for reprogramming actions. Supervising a group of employees performing work at the GS-6/7/9/11/12 levels. Providing administrative and technical advice necessary for accomplishing the work of the unit. Establishing guidelines and performance expectations for staff, which are clearly communicated through the formal employee performance management system. Directing Budget Section staff on entering budgetary data into a variety of forms, schedules, and reports. Recommending and making adjustments when required. Observing worker's performance; demonstrating and conducting work performance critiques. Providing informal feedback and periodically evaluating employee performance. Assuring employees accomplish the work of the organizational unit. Sharing responsibility for accuracy and completeness of all budget service reports, developing organization memoranda, bulletins, budget data, and other reports which maybe combined to produce comprehensive analysis of the program accomplishments to assist management in planning and decision-making. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Budget Analyst/PD059240 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 04/19/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-13 Specialized Experience: At least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-12) in the Federal Service that has given you the particular knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform the duties of this position. Examples of specialized experience include: Developing, recommending, and implementing budgetary and financial policies. Providing management officials with procedural and regulatory guidance concerning availability of or limitation on the use of funds. Reviewing a broad base of historical data and current trends to validate and consolidate requests and estimates for an integrated budget forecast. Developing cost-benefit analyses of proposed budgetary and program actions and advising managers of the best course of action. Providing guidance on Health System goals, cost containment initiative measures, funds availability, FTEE ceilings, program objectives, and policy considerations. Performing analysis of workload and budget data to identify trends and irregularities and making recommendations for improvement. Planning and scheduling workflow to ensure even distribution and effective use of organization resources. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ThinkingBudget AdministrationControl of FundsFinancial ManagementLeadershipPlanning and Evaluating Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: Work is primarily sedentary in nature, being performed while seated at a desk. Occasionally, incumbent may carry working files, reference books and similar items to o or from other offices, conferences, or the local records storage area. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Malcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1601 Southwest Archer Road Gainesville, FL 32608 US
• Name: Sarah Brown
• Phone: 407-631-8455
• Email: [email protected]