Budget Analyst

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Summary

This position is located with the Deputy Regional Forester

• Resources, Ecosystem, Planning, and Budget team in Juneau, Alaska and provides expertise Region-wide in budget, financial management, financial policy & program management and accomplishment reporting.

For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Brent Doutt at 907-586-9375 or brentt.doutt@usda.gov.

A relocation/recruitment incentive MAY be available. Final determination to be made prior to job offer.

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Responsibilities

• This position has primary responsibilities for the following duties: outyear budget formulation.

• Serve as Regional liaison to Human Resources Management

• ASC and Washington Office Fiscal policy.

• Serve as Regional audit liaison.

• Manages the regional Unliquidated Obligations.

• Coordinates the regional accomplishment reporting.

• Provides advice and assistance to managers in the development of program and budget requests and related supporting documentation.

• Tracks budget expenditures against approved budget plans to ensure that funds are being spent according to financial limits, laws, regulations, policies and procedures.

• Conducts annual year-end closing activities and reconciles with accounting records.

• Consolidates and validates input from field units for budget and financial information.

• Prepares detailed obligation plans in conjunction with budget requests.

• Highlights budget changes and trends from year to year to help senior level management with program budget decisions.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Travel Required

Occasional travel

• You may be expected to travel for this position for training, meetings, or site visits.

Supervisory status

No

Promotion Potential

None

• Job family (Series)

0560 Budget Analysis

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Conditions of Employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.

• Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.

• Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.

• Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.

• Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.

• Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards.

Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary.

Specialized Experience Requirement:

For the GS-12: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as having the following: Monitored the execution of a budget with many different sources and types of funding; Reviewed and coordinated accounting documents for budget execution activities such as obligations, payments, corrections, adjustments, apportionments, and allotments;

AND

At least one of the following: Prepared projected funding needs and assured that data in requests was formally and accurately documented OR Provided technical advice, consultation and assistance to management on a range of budget program issues.

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). 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.

TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

There is no education substitution for this series/grade.