Financial Analyst

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f. Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the Columbia Annex, Maryland.

Provides instructions, planning factors, cost analysis, and budget policy guidance to project/program managers within the organization

Develop organizational and substantive program budgets consolidated with the Command, subordinate commands, and service components

Briefs on the recommendations and negotiates their decision into a consolidated organization budget for submission to agency levels

Allocates funds to individual division or functional projects based on an analysis of organization budget estimates, historical expenditures, projected workload, and approved funding.

Provides management with financial information such as financial reports showing the status of receipts, obligations, and expenditures of funds

Trend analyses of rates of expenditures; comparisons of actual performance to the financial plan and identification of variances

Serves as a financial consultant to management on issues such as budgeting strategies and techniques

Use of financial management products; resource distribution; program priorities; financial forecasts and projections and development of annual and long-range financial plans

Responsible for formulating, coordinating, and representing the organizational budget, or the total organization budget for all funds. Analyzes program and budgetary guidance.

Integrates local budget policy and procedures, budget formulation assumptions, and formats and schedules to serviced organizations for budget submissions