Director Budget Office

Director, Budget Office

The Director, Budget Office, is responsible for all NOAA budget operations: providing centralized guidance and control of budget activities at all levels of operations; maintaining overall NOAA appropriation, apportionment, obligation, outlay, and cost control; coordinating reprogramming submissions; overseeing the entire process in developing the annual NOAA budget submissions; and reviewing budget performance for bureau sub-units. The incumbent is also responsible for:

• Developing and/or overseeing the implementation of programs and processes that ensure robust monitoring of financial transactions and budget execution to achieve complete compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as internal and external policies. Adopting adequate measures to address anomalies and eliminate/mitigate the risk of future non-compliance.
• Anticipating the effects of legislative and administrative changes, initiatives, policies, procedures, and customer requirements; and developing effective, legally-compliant, fully responsive budget formulation strategies to provide for implementation of programmatic priorities.
• Providing leadership in NOAA budget proposal and/or justification efforts, advising senior leadership on funding strategies and novel solutions to new or unique programmatic funding requirements.
• Overseeing accurate allocation of costs among budget accounts and evaluating proposals for reprogramming of funds, advising leadership on all appropriate compliance measures, and ensuring that approved transfers of budget authority between budget accounts are consistent with reprogramming regulations.
• Instituting methodologies, organizational practices, and processes to ensure audit readiness and accuracy, consistent with applicable U.S. Government generally accepted accounting principles and prescribed departmental accounting policies and procedures.
• Advising senior leadership on the entire range of budgetary and financial matters, including internal control measures, and building consensus among executives, senior managers, and internal or external stakeholders regarding strategies that contribute to more efficient allocation of resources.
• Developing and overseeing programs and services related to NOAA budget execution and reporting financial issues. Supporting NOAA's strategic planning process by helping to define financial resources needed and likely to be available in the near and long-term. Tracking NOAA's performance measures and Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act requirements.
• Evaluating the adequacy of budget operations, adherence to established policy, the need for changes in overall direction, and initiating such changes in accordance with the CFO policy.
• Developing NOAA's multi-year budget submissions to the DOC, OMB, and Congress, and guidance and procedures for budget planning, formulation, and presentation processes.
• Serving as the senior advisor and agency representative on behalf of NOAA's leadership to the DOC, OMB, and Congressional staff on budget formulation and related planning issues within NOAA.
• Facilitating review and analysis of all budgetary tasks and making recommendations to NOAA's senior management on budgetary policy, investment, and operational decision-making.
• Coordinating the preparation and distribution of budget allowances to all NOAA functional areas. Monitoring "planned" vs. "actual" resource expenditures and preparing special reports and summaries for the CFO.
• Planning for current year and out-year funding shortfalls. Reviewing all funding accounts and financial operations, and developing implementation plans to mitigate possible funding reductions and reallocations. Developing tables, reports, and exhibits for senior management.
• Undertaking special assignments to develop and recommend new or modified policies and programs for the direction and management of NOAA financial management functions by working with the CFO to define objectives and with the Line and Staff Offices to develop the substance of management and administrative program/services while pursuing NOAA-wide efforts to achieve national goals and the GPRA Modernization Act objectives.
• Providing policy-level authoritative representation to intergovernmental meetings concerning NOAA interests in the area of financial management, budget, and financial systems.