Financial & Budget Management Analyst; Program Budget; Expert Security Clearance

Location:

Springfield, VA

Clearance Required:

US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI or TS/SCI w/polygraph. If polygraph is not held, candidates must be willing to take a polygraph. Position

Description:

As a principal expert, this analyst provides strategic-level cost analysis and affordability assessments to guide the agency's most complex and high-value investment decisions. This role focuses on the "cost" element of the cost-schedule-performance trade space, developing sophisticated financial models and data-driven analyses to ensure that programs and portfolios are affordable and fiscally sustainable over their entire lifecycle. Work at this level involves an extraordinary degree of specialized knowledge or expertise performing highly complex and ambiguous assignments that normally require integration and synthesis.

Duties may include:

• Provide expert support to Customer seniors and program managers on Tactical Data Systems;
• Assist the government program manager with rapid execution of tactical data projects with a focus on interoperability, testing, tactical data ingest, processing, exploitation/analysis, storage, dissemination and associated infrastructures;
• Support the Customer at meetings during coalition partner forums and provide specific inputs for annual DCGS data calls and DCGS CONOPS documents;
• Support TASPO at executive level meetings with principals at OUSD(I&S) and provide specific inputs to briefings and annual programmatic documents;
• Provide program planning to support the DCGS family of services and Commonwealth partners, in support of coalition information sharing and interoperability efforts;
• Support joint and coalition interoperability events, tests, trials, demonstrations, and exercises for DCGS systems to facilitate joint/coalition enterprise interoperability;
• Assist DCGS government representatives develop annual DCGS work plan that articulates short, mid, and long-term goals for the DCGS as well as deliverables;
• Guide the Program Manager (PM) throughout the program life-cycle on cost, schedule, risk and performance issues;
• Assist government program managers with preparing support documentation to include funding documents to obligate funds, Support Agreements, Interagency Agreements, Statement of Work/Objectives, Independent Government Estimates, Determinations and Findings, Justifications and Approvals, and Request for Procurement Services;
• Assist government program managers in providing answers/input on funding from Customer, OUSD(I&S), DNI and Congress;
• Support the development of various Customer briefing materials and responses to questions, request for information, and various inquiries from ODNI, OSD and OMB as appropriate, as it relates to TASPO programs.;
• Support the preparation and monitoring of Supplemental/Over guidance requirements.
• Provide support to Customer Program Mid-year and End-of-Year Execution Reviews; and
• Exercise a solid working knowledge and capability in the use of various spreadsheet, database, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Project software.
• Required Skills:
  
  Demonstrated experience similar to or like the duties as outlined above,
• Demonstrated specialized experience with DoD or other government agency budgetary or finance processes,
• Demonstrated specialized experience justifying/defending programs and budgets.
• Desired
  
  Skills:
  
  Demonstrated knowledge of utilizing Microsoft Project for resource allocation,
• Demonstrated knowledge of Customer's core mission and how its program, budgets and resources that support the mission,
• Demonstrated knowledge of the U.S. Intelligence and DoD Funding Programs to include budgetary processes and funds execution,
• Demonstrated knowledge of fund execution policies for principal DoD appropriations, and
• Demonstrated specialized…