This position serves as the Supervisory Budget Analyst in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC), located at the Central Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC. OIC, which reports directly to VA's Under Secretary for Health and provides internal oversight of key VHA legal and regulatory compliance risks to advance program goals. The position serves as an organizational lead in the management and execution of the budget.

Duties

Skill and ability in written and oral communication Knowledge of the Office of Integrity and Compliance and operations of financial management systems. Facilitate translation of the VHA Strategic Framework into implementation financial plans, conduct resource planning and tracking, identify risk and mitigation plans, and ensure business processes are designed to support strategy and achieve common goals. Develop and analyze multi-year budget estimates for the Office of Integrity and Compliance projects and organizational program initiatives, including return on investment analysis, cost-benefit analysis, cost estimating methods, cost effectiveness assessments, analysis of alternatives, lifecycle cost estimates, transactions analysis, and value-chain analysis. Analyze and forecast organizational spending for program directorates and guides the office in the development of an annual budget operating plan. In-depth analysis of budget requests, considers unforeseen factors in development and production, shifts in project direction and emphasis and/or requests not included in planned programs and explores alternative sources of funding. Interpret organizational financial and business policy and provide succinct summaries and recommendations to management. Computes and predicts effects of changes in administered programs. Attend formal and informal management sessions and consistently contributes financial advice considered pertinent to the discussion during all stages of planning, policy formulations and decision-making. interpret account regulations and impact of new legislation or program initiatives. Develop and/or review complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques, sharing arrangements such as cost plus incentive fees or fixed-price incentive fees. Utilize theory, principles, concepts, and practices of accounting to apply to broad and difficult assignments. Develop budgeting for substantive national programs and services and apply OMB policies and congressional laws, regulations, polices and directives. Assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees. Advise, counsel and instruct employees on both work and administrative matters. Hears and resolves minor complaints from employees; refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; effects minor disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands and recommends action in more serious cases. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: May be available. Telework: Available (applicant is required on site 50% of work schedule per pay period) Virtual: This may be a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Budget Analyst/PD309380 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized. Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 1/03/2025. 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience Requirement: Possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-13 in Federal Service that typically includes, but is not limited to, the following specialized experience examples. Execute budget for Office of Integrity and Compliance Develop, transmit and present budget for organization Research and apply legislation, statues & regulations to develop policy documents and technical papers Financial management techniques to plan & review healthcare programs Reconcile integrated accounts for a variety of accounting systems Lead, direct and coordinate the work of others Write technical papers and presentations to develop recommendations and standards for financial programs You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Communication Financial Analysis Decision Making Organizational Awareness 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: The work is principally sedentary. 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.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VHA Central Office - Oversight, Risk and Ethics 810 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]