Budget & Accounting SME (Department of Defense/US Navy)

Hybrid role (2-3 days onsite at the Pentagon, Arlington, VA)
Must hold an active Secret Clearance

• 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 non-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).

• Must have a Secret Clearance
• Demonstrated experience with Navy budget systems and tools (e.g., Navy ERP and PBIS).
• Demonstrated ability to analyze financial statements and budget execution reports.
• In-depth 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.
• Preferred experience as a Budget Analyst for a large Department of Defense Agency.
• Prior technical experience with ADVANA systems (Qlik, Databricks) is preferred but not required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• 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.