This Budget Analyst role involves analyzing financial and budgetary relationships to provide recommendations and guidance for financial and budgetary actions. The position focuses on developing budget plans, managing expenditures, and ensuring compliance with regulations for various programs and funds within the District.
Responsibilities
Analyze financial and budgetary relationships to develop recommendations for financial and budgetary actions
Provide detailed procedural guidance on budget submissions, account status, year-end closing procedures, and historical data showing such things as the status of receipts, obligations, and expenditures of funds; trends analyses of rates of expenditures; comparisons of actual performance to the approved budget plan, and identification of variances
Provide guidance to customers and functional experts by researching, summarizing, and compiling data involving obligations, expenses, and object class/line item information
Conduct cost-benefit analysis to determine program trade-offs and to explore alternative methods of funding
Analyze trends in receipts, obligations, and expenditures
Allocate funds to individual schools/functional areas based upon analysis of individual budget estimates, historical expenditures, workload, and approved funding
Review obligations, expenditures, accounting and written records, and maintain a continuing dialog with managers and their staffs
Serve as the District coordinator for Student Activity Funds (SAF); provide training to bookkeepers, fund custodians, and administrators on the regulatory requirements of the SAF program
Review SAF audit reports to ensure the SAF Council addresses all audit findings and recommendations
Manage Extra Duty Compensation (EDC) payments for the District
Coordinate with payroll analysts in the agency's area office when necessary to validate EDC expenditures and resolve payment problems that may arise
Manage Government Purchase Card (GPC) purchases; manage, track, and control GPC expenditures in accordance with prescribed agency policy
Serve as Agency Program Coordinator (APC) for the government travel card program for the District
Provide guidance and direction to school-level personnel on management of their GPC accounts
Perform on-site reviews to ensure compliance with prescribed agency procedures
Requirements
One year of Specialized Experience equivalent to the GS-07 level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private/military sector) with particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, typically in or related to the work of the position, including:
Assist in providing budget advice and guidance on budgetary matters, including information on the overall budget process, trend analyses, and budget advice and guidance
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Conduct cost-benefit analysis to determine program trade-offs and to explore alternative methods of funding
Assist in reviewing obligations, expenditures, accounting and written records, and maintain a continuing dialog with managers and their staffs
One year of Specialized Experience equivalent to the GS-09 level in the Federal service (experience may have been gained in the private/military sector) with particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, typically in or related to the work of the position, including:
Provide budget advice and guidance on budgetary matters, including information on the overall budget process, trend analyses, and budget advice and guidance
Conduct cost-benefit analysis to determine program trade-offs and to explore alternative methods of funding
Review obligations, expenditures, accounting and written records, and maintain a continuing dialog with managers and their staffs
Ability to Apply Practices and Principles on Commonly Used Budget and Finance Policies and Regulations
Ability to Identify and Analyze Cost-Benefit Relationships between the District Budget and Administrative Programs to Develop Multi-Year Budget Plans and Forecasts
Knowledge of Procedures and Processes Required to Review and Maintain Financial Data or Transactions
Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements for merit promotion consideration (52-week requirement at GS-5 and above for promotion to the next grade level)
Important Details
Application deadline: Monday, May 15, 2017
Education
Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level
If substituting education for experience at the GS-09 level, you must possess a master's or equivalent degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher graduate education leading to such a degree, OR LL.B. or J.D., if related
If substituting education for experience at the GS-11 level, you must possess a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher graduate education leading to such a degree, OR LL.M., if related
Transcripts MUST be provided if substituting or combining education for experience
About the Company
The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements.
