Senior Budget Specialist

Must hold an active Secret Clearance
Hybrid – 2-3 days per week in Arlington, VA.

• Provide expert advice, assistance, and guidance on the development and submission of budget priorities and provide input on strategic planning initiatives.
• Advise senior leaders on budget submissions and justifications.
• Conduct analyses, reviews, and special studies of budget and/or related information.
• Lead and/or perform specialized, individual economic analyses and impact studies in support of a variety of budget programs.
• Use automated budgetary system(s) and computer-generated products in accomplishing budgeting assignments.
• Serve as a lead budget analyst, working collaboratively with senior staff to develop and recommend milestones, objectives, and plans to achieve Navy FM&C’s long- and short-range mission priorities. 
• Develop procedures to link budgetary and program information to meet reporting requirements and assist managers in meeting their programmatic responsibilities. 
• Create budgetary innovations to address novel, complex program challenges.

• Perform budget formulation work involving the preparation of detailed analyses of annual and/or multi-year budget estimates for assigned organizations/programs into a consolidated budget request.
• Develop operational and financial plans for the organization’s programs, estimates of the financial resources needed for the programs, and recommendations for how to fund the programs.
• Examine these proposals to make sure they are complete and accurate, and follow the organization’s procedures, regulations, and objectives.
• Utilize cost-benefit analyses to review financial requests, evaluate program tradeoffs, and look for alternative funding methods.
• Provide Budget Formulation Guidance to Secretariat Staff Offices. 
• Prepare Budget Exhibits by appropriation and other topics, including the Audit Resources Budget Exhibit
• Prepare SRB and POM/DON/OSD/Congressional Submissions
• Prepare responses to Congressional RFIs and Appeals, working with FM&C leadership to understand the requirements and align messaging to budget strategy and roadmap.
• Combine individual departmental budgets into operating and capital budget summaries that contain statements that support or advocate against funding requests.
• Submit the budget summaries to leadership and recommend alternative options if the budget does not meet current needs and restrictions.

• Provide Budget Execution Guidance to Secretariat Staff Offices. 
• Perform budget execution and administration work involving the monitoring of obligations incurred and the actual expenditures of a budget with different sources and types of funding, such as direct annual, multi-year, and no-year appropriations. 
• Maintain a system of internal controls over all aspects of Navy FM&C budget formulation and execution to guard against waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement. Assemble and compile background and historical data and documentation to develop budget estimates and justifications, and to identify the cost of the operations.
• Perform additional Budget Execution activities, including Execution Tracking and Reporting, conducting Dormant Account Reviews, and supporting the Services Requirements Review Board (SRRB)

Your background will include the following.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an active Secret Clearance
• Willing to work 2-3 days a week at the Pentagon.
• Demonstrated experience with Navy budget systems and tools (e.g., Navy ERP and PBIS)
• Ability to analyze financial statements and budget execution reports.
• Proven understanding of the budget formulation and budget execution processes in the DWCF (outside of the Navy), including rate-setting processes for various types of business lines in the Defense (DoD) working capital funds.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Highly proficient knowledge of Excel (pivot tables, formulas, etc.)
• Solid and effective verbal & written communication skills
• Strong critical thinking and analysis, planning, and problem-solving skills