THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. This National Guard position is for a BUDGET OFFICER (Title 5), Position Description Number T5152000 and is part of the OK JFHQ, National Guard.

Duties

Location: This position is located in a National Guard financial organization. The primary purpose of this position is to provide management oversight and guidance to budget formulation and execution processes. The incumbent is recognized as a technical authority regarding fiscal and budgetary policy, law, and regulatory guidelines for the organization. This position accomplishes budget functions in support of organizational and Federal National Guard operations, training, and readiness missions and maintains staff responsibility over complex annual budgets. Serves as a Budget Officer responsible for all budgetary operations necessary to support plans, programs and activities of the organization. Serves as a technical expert regarding all phases of budget functions including the interpretation, application and implementation of budgetary principles, procedures and guidelines. Provides executive direction and review of budgetary operations. Serves as principal staff advisor to the senior leadership and top management personnel regarding maintaining a balance in the efficiency and economy of operations in accomplishing programmed objectives. Directs the review and oversight of budget formulation, justification and execution, requiring the frequent contact with top management personnel. Develops, prepares and presents analyses and summaries of budget performance for management through such forums as resource advisory committee briefings, presentations, conferences and inspections. Participates in policy development and program planning for National Guard activities, including recommending major reprogramming of funds to the senior leadership to ensure a fund balance is maintained and resources are efficiently used. Interprets guideline materials and instructions issued by Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Congress, Department of Defense (DoD), National Guard Bureau (NGB), etc. Issues supplementary guidance. Ensures policy conforms to existing precedents, practices and policies issued by higher authority. Reviews, consolidates, approves, modifies or disapproves budgetary data and reports submitted for consistency with guidelines, reasonableness and accuracy. Presents budgetary briefings with supporting statistical data to senior leadership who use the data to defend budget and manpower requirements before making decisions. Presents the command position and defends budget requirements to visitors and budget examiners. Oversees budgetary operations. Monitors the current year's budget operations through monthly management indicators and staff visits. Performs special studies and selective reviews of budgetary programs and procedures. Analyzes, evaluates, and identifies the areas and types of corrective/improvement actions needed. Develops data required for examining various options or scenarios related to budgetary issues that may adversely affect the organizational. Presents data in a readily usable form by developing special automated spreadsheets, charts and reports. Serves as a primary technical expert on the treatment of budgetary data on forms, schedules, requests, and reports for use by the financial/budget organization or for use by organizational personnel. Formulates and justifies budget requests for the organizational in consideration of historical costs up to five years, the current period of execution, and the effects of multi-year procurement and military construction appropriations. Issues calls for budget to staff and resource managers and provides guidance, as needed. Reviews and consolidates responses and presents them to advisory committees. Recommends major reprogramming of funds to senior leadership. Briefs funds availability, staff requirements, historical trends, and straw man budget recommendations, including suggested decrements and/or alternate methods of funding. Briefs the senior leadership, key management, and program managers on the formal operating budget. Prepares, reviews and submits the organizational budget. As necessary, defends the leadership's position and budget requirements to visiting higher headquarters and outside audit personnel. Monitors the execution of the annual operating budget. Establishes and executes funds control procedures by developing apportionment requirements and schedules for obligations and expenditures, and issuing cost limitations for various elements of expenses. Reviews all obligation, commitment and manpower authorization documents to ensure charges are in accordance with laws and regulations and within the operating budget.

Requirements

• Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.
• Ability to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers, contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.
• Irregular and/or overtime (compensatory) hours may be required to support operational requirements or contingencies or may be required to work hours outside of the normal duty day.
• May be required to travel by car, in military and/or commercial aircraft, and by other means of transportation as appropriate to perform temporary duty assignments
• This position is designated as Essential Personnel and may be subject to duty in preparation for, or in response to, a state emergency or disaster declaration.
• This designation will not exceed 14 calendar days per year unless otherwise approved in advance by the TAG.
• This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP). The employee is subject to random drug testing. Pre-employment drug testing and participation in random drug testing is a condition of employment.

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: To qualify an applicant for any GS-0560 position, apply and evaluate the applicant's competencies (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities, and Behaviors), military and civilian experiences, completed private or public education programs, learned skills, obtained knowledge, endorsed abilities, and civilian or military training program accomplishments. The following qualification factors are applicable to the budget analysis positions: -Skilled in collecting and analyzing data effectively, efficiently, and accurately; -Ability to plan and coordinate difficult and complex programs; -Ability to develop, apply, and adjust financial plans and policies to attain agency objectives; -Ability to select, develop, and supervise a subordinate staff; -Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, not only with subordinate staff, but with all levels of key management officials, the latter particularly requiring the exercise of tact, ingenuity, and resourcefulness; -Skilled in presenting formal training presentations and briefings; and, -Ability to make oral and written presentations in a clear and concise manner; -Ability to apply a high level of sound and independent judgment in the solution of financial problems and in the administration of a financial management program; -Skilled in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material. -Knowledge of agency operating programs; -Knowledge of financial principles, methods, techniques, and systems; -Ability to clearly enunciate English without impediment of speech that would interfere or prohibit effective communication; -Ability to write English in reports and presentation formats; -Ability to communicate clearly and effectively; -Skilled in training, mentoring, and problem solving; and, -Skilled in applying procedures and directives by reading and interpreting program material. GENERAL EXPERIENCE: All on-board Title 5 Excepted Service employees assigned to Series GS-0560 positions, must be certified at the next higher grade-level before considered as eligible for merit promotions to that level; and must have a minimum of one-year on-the-job experience in the grade immediately below the next higher level in the grade immediately below the next higher level (GS-11) in the 0560 series. However, a new hire applicant must have competent experiences that are commensurate/equivalent to the budget analysis program business with demonstrated understandings of the program's principles and concepts defined by the NG Title 5 Excepted Service Series GS-0560 position descriptions. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify for the GS-0560-12 Non-Supervisory Position, the candidate must be eligible for entry into the position's financial management certification career program based on the position's GS-grade before final approval and appointment is processed. A candidate must have at least 36 months of finance budget experiences and competencies that provided in-depth knowledge of financial principles and procedures. Candidate must have a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of the National Guard financial budget business program requirements. A candidate must have expanded experiences and training that that demonstrate the competencies to lead, follow directions, read, retain, and understand a variety of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures. Knowledge of the general budget programming process to serve as an advisor and consultant to top management regarding budgetary matters. Knowledge of budget activities of organizational programs to review, edit, analyze and recommend approval or disapproval of proposed operating budgets and budget requests or requests for reprogramming and allotments. This knowledge is used to analyze budget estimates, considering multiple periods of execution in both single and multi-year appropriations, and to consolidate such estimates into a balanced document for both planning and monitoring purposes. Knowledge of financial management objectives of higher authorities to ensure policies comply with precedents and controls, and to provide guidance to management officials. Knowledge of the principles, practices, precedents, systems and techniques of budgeting, e.g., the DOD planning, programming and budget execution, zero-based budgeting and incremental budgeting, along with the ability to interrelate funding and manpower requirements and expense concepts to formulate and justify civilian and military budgets considering multiple periods of execution in both single and multi-year appropriations. This is also used to coordinate and review the budget formulation and justification for the organizational. This knowledge is required of both military and civilian budgeting processes, which are dissimilar and require special knowledge unique to each process. Knowledge of appropriation accountability, regulatory/statutory limitations, scope and latitude permitted by law and regulations, manpower accounting principles and procedures, management information systems and subsystems, and the relationship between the budget and accounting and reporting systems sufficient to execute the operating budget and provide advice on budget execution to management officials. Detailed knowledge of basic legislation and policies, procedures and regulations controlling budget processes to oversee the budget program. Requires skill in interpreting and applying the concepts and practices of the planning, programming, and budgeting systems used in DOD and/or the ARNG/ANG. ***As a condition of continued employment in the GS-0560-12 position, dependent on the position's certification level, the employee must complete the higher financial management certification within 24 months of appointment to the position.***

Education

Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience: To qualify for GS-0560 Title 5 Excepted Service positions, on the basis of completed undergraduate or graduate education, the college degree education must be in one of -or- be a combination of the following required disciplines: Accounting, business, finance, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational management.

You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this position.

Contacts

• Address OK JFHQ 3501 MILITARY CIRCLE OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73111-4305 US
• Name: James Wagoner
• Phone: (405) 228-5581
• Email: [email protected]