Budget Analyst

Summary

The successful candidate will serve as a Budget Analyst in the Administrative Division. You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and administering the full spectrum of budget and financial management services.

The successful candidate will serve as a Budget Analyst in the Administrative Division. You will be responsible for planning, implementing, and administering the full spectrum of budget and financial management services.

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As needed, additional positions may be filled using this announcement.

If selected for the position, you will serve as a Budget Analyst in the Administrative Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Duties include:

• Enter obligations, amendments, deliverables and actions into the official financial system.
• Review obligations, expenditures, and unobligated orders for available balances.
• Apply budgetary policies, regulations, and analytical techniques to evaluate funding requirements and monitor budget execution.
• Prepare district budget requests.
• Maintain accurate and effective budget submissions to reflect needs of the district.
• Prepare justifications for recommended allocation levels.
• Review and analyze program funding requirements.
• Participate in identifying future resource requirements and developing future budget requirements.
• Process travel authorizations, foreign travel packages, and travel vouchers/claims.

Responsibilities will increase and assignments will become more complex as your training and experience progress.

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Initial appointment is conditioned upon a satisfactory pre-employment adjudication. This includes fingerprint, credit and tax checks, and drug testing. Continued employment is subject to a favorable adjudication of a background investigation.
• You must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable.
• If selected, you may be required to complete a one year probationary period.
• Time-in-Grade:
  Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement.
• You must meet all qualification and eligibility requirements within 30 days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position.

Specialized

Experience:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 level in federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing budget or financial management work which demonstrates knowledge of budget and finance principles, practices and methods to perform budget execution, formulation, financial reporting, and internal control functions. Examples of specialized experience include gathering statistical data needed for financial reporting, reviewing the accuracy of budget and program data, monitoring obligations and expenditures, and compiling budget requests.

Education: One of the following types of education in a related field (e.g., Accounting, Financial Management, Business Administration, Public Administration): a Master's or equivalent graduate degree (such as an LL.B.);
OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree. Education at the graduate level must be in an accredited college or university and must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the duties of the position.

Combining

Education and Experience:

Combines of successfully completed graduate education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements. In order to qualify based on a combination, graduate education must be in excess of 1 full year.

GS-11: To be eligible at the GS-11 level, you must meet at least ONE of the following conditions,
as defined below
:
Specialized Experience, Education,
OR a combination of Education and Experience.

Specialized

Experience:

One full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 level in federal service. Specialized experience is defined as experience performing budget or financial management work which demonstrates an intensive knowledge of budget and finance policies, principles, and practices sufficient to manage the budget process. Examples of specialized experience include assisting in the formulation and execution of the budget, overseeing financial management operations, maintaining obligations and expenditures properly, conducting audits, tracking funds, and developing statistical reports.

Education: 3 full academic years of progressively higher level graduate education or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in one or a combination of the following fields:
Accounting, Financial Management, Business Administration, Public…