External Title Senior Budget & Plans Analyst

Position Overview

Peraton is seeking a highly experienced Senior Budget & Plans Analyst to support the strategic planning and financial management of a large Customer organization. This position will serve as a key advisor and coordinator for the organization's future-year budget planning, development, and approval process. The Senior Budget & Plans Analyst will be responsible for leading the development and coordination of strategic budget builds for future fiscal years, translating organizational priorities and requirements into executable budget plans, and navigating established government budget processes to secure approval and establish baselines.

This position will work as part of a three-person budget team. While the other team members will focus primarily on current-year budget execution, tracking, and maintenance, the Senior Budget & Plans Analyst will have primary responsibility for future-year planning, budget formulation, and strategic resource alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the organization's future-year strategic budget planning and formulation activities.
• Develop, coordinate, and maintain budget builds for upcoming fiscal years based on organizational priorities, requirements, and strategic objectives.
• Work closely with senior leadership, program managers, financial stakeholders, and other organizational partners to identify future resource requirements and develop supporting budget strategies.
• Translate strategic plans and operational requirements into comprehensive, defensible budget submissions.
• Manage the coordination and integration of budget inputs across multiple programs, functions, and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain multi-year budget projections, funding profiles, and resource plans.
• Ensure budget submissions are accurate, complete, internally consistent, and aligned with applicable government policies, guidance, and processes.
• Navigate and manage the organization's established government budget formulation, review, approval, and baselining processes.
• Coordinate responses to budget reviews, data calls, leadership inquiries, and requests for additional justification or supporting analysis.
• Track the status of future-year budget submissions through the planning and approval cycle and communicate key milestones, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Support leadership in evaluating resource requirements, funding tradeoffs, and potential impacts to organizational priorities.
• Identify potential budget risks, shortfalls, and execution/planning disconnects and develop recommendations for resolution.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with government budget, finance, program, and acquisition stakeholders.
• Coordinate closely with the organization's current-year budget execution team to ensure continuity between future-year planning and current-year execution.
• Develop presentations, briefing materials, budget exhibits, decision documents, and other materials needed to communicate budget plans and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and auditability of budget assumptions, methodologies, decisions, and submissions.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and mentorship to other members of the budget team as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS and 16+ years of relevant experience in federal government budgeting, financial management, resource planning, strategic planning, or a related field; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating budget formulation and future-year budget planning for a large organization or complex program.
• Strong understanding of federal…