Portfolio & Strategic Planning Analyst

Responsibilities

The Sponsor seeks a knowledgeable and motivated Budget Analyst with previous experience using the Sponsor's systems.

The Sponsor seeks a knowledgeable and motivated Budget Analyst with previous experience using the Sponsor's systems.

• Provide strategic planning, programmatic planning, and budget support to the Groups responsible for a high-visibility Special Access Program.
• Support the Groups in formulating, justifying, and defending budget builds.
• Develop and maintain spend plans.
• Reconcile spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommend options to address potential over- or under-utilization of resources.
• Stay current with all Customer and Resource Management guidance and assist in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assist staff with researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
• Prepare supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming.
• Assist with writing congressional language for submission into the program build.
• Perform short- and long-term financial trend analyses.
• Prepare briefings, budgets, and spend plans to support programmatic activities.
• Coordinate and respond to budget requirements and budget-related taskings.
• Collaborate with Resource Management as required; attend and support resource meetings.
• Continually interface with executive-level management, requiring the planning, presentation, and briefing of information.

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• A degree (or equivalent experience) in quantitative analysis, financial analysis, social sciences, or a closely related field
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Knowledge of IC strategic planning and resource management processes
• Knowledge of program planning and execution processes
• Knowledge of business resource planning practices and cost analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timeliness of data
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices
• Knowledge of program risk assessment principles and processes
• Ability to apply analytic, diagnostic, and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate, and recommend to managers substantive solutions to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Demonstrated professional competence as a plans and budget officer
• Demonstrated experience managing 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
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborating in strategic planning for future years
• Demonstrated experience preparing budget exercise submissions; assimilating information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensuring submissions are rational, defensible, and executable
• Demonstrated experience ensuring program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposing and implementing resource alignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances
• Demonstrated broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization, budget development, and execution processes
• Demonstrated experience constructing and maintaining background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, decisions, and supporting rationale to aid the component's resource management continuity
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated excellent writing skills and the ability to craft clear, concise requests for funding and responses to taskings
• Excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment

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