Job opening: Budget Analyst
Salary: $73 690 - 114 818 per year
Relocation: YES
Published at: Sep 30 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for 9905 to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.
About the Position: Serves as a Budget Analyst for the Kansas City District - Construction Division. Performs various budget functions involving the formulation, justification, and/or execution of budgets for the organization.
Duties
Provides independent financial guidance and expert technical staff support to leadership of the organization.
Interprets and applies appropriations law for providing advice and guidance.
Reviews, processes, and approves a variety of funding actions involving civil, military, and revolving funds to prevent violations of Federal Appropriations Law and financial regulations.
Formulates, develops, and justifies budget estimates to establish financial management practices, policies, and procedures.
Monitors records of obligations and expenditures to assure full utilization of available funding and reprogramming to meet critical deadlines.
Evaluates account balances, trends, and rate of expenditure of funds.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- You may be expected to perform temporary duty travel (TDY) of 5% for this position to support the mission.
- Appointment to this position is subject to a one year probationary period unless the appointee has previously met the requirements as described in 5 CFR Part 315.
- This position requires a Financial Management Level 2 Certification within 2 years of start date.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Requirement for GS-11 Budget Analyst position:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: Experience
Interpreting and applying appropriations law for processing a variety of funding actions.
Monitoring records of obligations and expenditures to assure full utilization of available funding and reprogramming to meet critical deadlines.
Identifying financial management problems in an organization's programs.
Evaluating account balances, trends, and rate of expenditure of funds.
Maintaining and updating status reports for district office, field offices and field activities programs and projects.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
OR
Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as:financial management, accounting, auditing, actuary, cost estimation, operational research, business, or business administration.
OR
Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages
.Requirement for GS-12 Budget Analyst position:
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes; Experience
Providing independent financial guidance and expert technical staff support to leadership of the organization.
Interpreting and applying appropriations law for providing advice and guidance.
Reviewing, processing, and approving a variety of funding actions involving civil, military, and revolving funds to prevent violations of Federal appropriations law and financial regulations.
Formulating, developing, and justifying budget estimates to establish and implement financial management practices, policies, and procedures.
Resolve difficult financial management problems in an organization's programs.
Coordinate work of budget and financial analysts to resolve problems and improve processes.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-11 or above).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/
Contacts
- Address RH-W07105 US ARMY ENGINEER DISTRICT-KANSAS CITY
DO NOT MAIL
Kansas City, MO 64106
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
- Email: [email protected]
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