Budget Analyst

This position is in the Office of the Executive Director, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and South and Central Asian Affairs (NEA-SCA/EX). The Budget Analyst serves with responsibility for the financial management of all domestic activities and is responsible for coordinating, formulating, presenting and executing budgets for all Bureau domestic resources which entails a wide range of budgetary and analytical duties including personal negotiations with all offices within the servicing bureaus.

Major duties

• Provides full range of budget oversight, control and execution for the assigned budget area.
• Serves as the Bureau representative on all Global Financial Management System (GFMS) task forces, review boards and all Department of State financial systems.
• Provides assistance to the Budget Officer in the implementation of financial management and budget systems, programs and data bases as well as the Budget Team Leader for the bureaus.
• Responsible for coordinating, formulating, presenting and executing budgets for all Bureau domestic resources.
• Reviews budget requests to assure their consistency, accuracy, and adherence to budget instructions developed by the Bureau Budget Officer or Budget Team Lead.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all the required qualification requirements described below by the closing date of this announcement. NOTE: Applicants must meet time-in-grade and time after competitive appointment requirements, by the closing date of this announcement. Applicants must have 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level in the Federal service which provided the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the position. Qualifying specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience collecting and analyzing funding requirements from field or subordinate offices and preparing fund requests to a higher-level budget authority. Experience executing budgets to include allotting funds, monitoring obligations and spending against approved requirements, and using financial management and budget systems to prepare budget, financial and analytical reports. Experience with checking budget submissions for accuracy and compliance with budget instructions and advising managers on preparing requests and supporting documentation. There is no substitute of education for specialized experience for the GS-12 position. Time-In-Grade Requirements: Federal applicants must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade to satisfy time-in-grade restrictions, per 5CFR 300, Subpart F.

Education

Education requirements do not apply to this vacancy announcement.