Portfolio Strategic Planning Analyst, Expert

OVERVIEW:

Eleccion is seeking an expert Portfolio Strategic Planning Analyst to provide plans and budget support for our client. The candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support for a specialized portfolio. The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics, provide support to financial, budget, planning and execution, and organize financial data into up-to-date records.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the cloud activities.
• Support Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build.
• Develop and maintain spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources.
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assists personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor’s program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analysis for the office.
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
• Collaborates with Directorate’s resource Management Team as required, attends resource meetings.
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Demonstrate professional competence as a plans and budget officer.
• Proven ability to run reports and track execution in client systems.
• Exhibit full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions.
• Ability to develop and implement long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years.
• Experience in preparing budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submission is rational, defensible and executable.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints remains consistent with goals; proposed and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component’s resource management continuity.
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent writings skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interacts with customers, senior leadership and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.
• At least 10 years of experience working in in a testing capacity on a complex Sponsor program

All candidates must have a TS/SCI clearance with a Full-Scope Polygraph.

Eleccion provides a competitive, comprehensive benefits package for all our employees.