Budget Analyst

Description

The Budget Analyst will support the Joint Training, Exercise, and Evaluation Program (JTEEP) support for the U.S. Air Force (AF).

Travel may be required.

This position is contingent on contract award.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support Headquarters Air Force, A3TE in the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) of the USAF apportionment of the Joint Training, Exercise, and Evaluation Program (JTEEP). 
• Coordinate with Headquarters Air Force, Joint Staff J-7 representatives, MAJCOMs and JTEEP program stakeholders, to collect and compile fiscal year financial requirements for preparation and submission of budget plan for the USAF allocation of JTEEP funding to meet exercise requirements included in the Joint Staff’s JTEEP FY Program Execution Plan (PEP). 
• Analyze and evaluate (on a quantitative or qualitative basis) the effectiveness of program operations in meeting established goals and objectives outlined in the JTEEP Program Goals and Objectives released by the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Readiness). 
• Engage with multiple Executive Offices across the USAF and Department of Defense when preparing Congressional correspondence and financial reports such as the OP-32 Defense Wide Budget Documentation and the R-2 RDT&E Budget Item Justification. 
• Provide advice and guidance on all financial programs for division leadership and Program Element Managers (PEM) to meet program requirements. 
• Monitor Air Force execution of the approved JTEEP operating budget to track and verify obligations and expenditures to ensure transactions occur in a timely manner. Ensures JTEEP Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) and Joint Training Coordination Program (JTCP) funds are properly managed to include execution activities, as well as projections, spending plans, and justifications. 
• Monitor appropriate financial databases, ensuring all JTEEP transactions are in accordance with audit guidance. Identifies issues, conducts appropriate analysis, and proposes corrective actions. Prepares budget uploads in the financial system of record. 
• Analyze Congressional proposals, DOD guidance, policies, directives, and changes in resource requirements, and assesses potential impacts to JNTC program. This may include providing OSD/JS reports in response to OSD Joint Staff Requests for Information, as required. 
• Produce financial reports/documentation for Joint Staff J-7, Service, Combatant Command components, and other management officials, manage execution activities, including projections, spending plans, and justifications. 
• Prepare data and coordinate with the other principal analysts in the submission of the quarterly JNTC financial report consistent with existing legislative and regulatory guidance and acceptable to reviewing and approving Government authorities. 
• Provide inquiry response support, preparing proposed responses to requests for information via electronic or other means. Requests for information can be of an unclassified or classified nature. 
• Assist PEMs in monitoring the distribution, obligation, and reporting of JNTC funds, to include managing Funds Available for Distribution (FADs) and Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs). Assists MAJCOM representatives on their received JNTC funds and ensures their appropriate processing in accordance with JTEEP policy, planned, programmed, and executed travel funding. 
• Assist the PEMs to ensure requests do not exceed funding available, as well as perform a wide range of business processes, to include purchase requests, receipt/acceptance, and general ledger inquiries regarding the JTEEP allotted funds. Conducts open obligations reviews; works with customers to maximize resources; review, analyze and override financial errors in the financial system of record; initiate quarterly budget execution reviews; perform trend and variance analyses; prepare and/or assist in the preparation of various forms. 
• Analyze and propose enhancements to JNTC’s administrative processes and MAJCOM service support by collecting and analyzing data related to processes, procedures, and policies. 
• Attend various meetings throughout the performance period, some of which will require travel to CONUS and OCONUS locations. 
• Attend periodic new or refresher training in the following systems of record: the Commander Resource Integration System (CRIS), the Automated Business Services System (ABSS), the Financial Management Suite (FM Suite), and the Defense Enterprise Accounting & Management System (DEAMS). 
• Maintain, monitor the status of operations, improve program control, determine the impact of new requirements, change program emphasis, more accurately project future costs, and satisfy requirements for improved efficiencies in the programing and budgeting of all unexecuted current and previous years funding in the Tri-Annual Review (TAR) Phases for the JTEEP program. 
• Engage in accounting system operation and maintenance and may address the adequacy of system design, the adequacy of current data in providing financial information, or ways to use the system to satisfy new information requirements. Addresses the efficiency and economy with which funds are obligated, transferred, controlled, and reported. 
• Document participation/support provided in a monthly status report. 

Requirements

• Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience in interpreting or editing major policy and procedural guidance documentation for the Department of Defense while conducting and understanding complex analysis and studies to support directors of staff and senior leadership.
• Minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience in Acquisition; Planning, Programing, Budget, and Execution (PPBE); and funding in the Defense Acquisition System.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience using and interpreting information from various financial databases and programs (Commander Resource Integration System (CRIS), Automated Business Services System (ABSS), Financial Management Suite (FM Suite), Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE), and CE2T2 Program Tracking Tool (CPTT).
• Minimum of (5) years of expertise in preparing budget briefings, fact papers, and documentation of analysis to fully prepare Air Force leaders in evolving budget issues and budget review processes.
• Working practical knowledge of general Government accounting and budgetary practices.
• Knowledge and staff experience typically gained while performing duties at higher headquarters (e.g. USAF Major Command (MAJCOM), Headquarters Air Force (HAF), Combatant Command, Component, OSD, or Joint Staff levels).
• Knowledge of the JTEEP program is highly desired.
• Possess a current or final Secret security clearance.