Job Description: Budget Analyst support is needed for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Engineering Support Office (RS30), to support the Propulsion Systems Department (ER) and the Engineering's Integration Office (ED10).
Serves as a junior analyst to systematically integrate business and financial management processes to ensure the efficient stewardship of public funds.
Possesses a general understanding of the budget formulation, execution, cost estimating, and administration process.
Ability to monitor and track obligation and expenditure of funds, detect, reconcile and remedy fiscal discrepancies, and provide cost effective, insightful reporting to decision makers.
Under contractor supervision, assesses products and procedures for compliance with Government standards, accounting principles and multi-tiered system application standards.
Familiar with financial management, business case analysis, cost estimating and/or outsourcing requirements.
Cognizant of interrelationships between financial management requirements and automated solutions, considering the current system environment and the potential integration of added systems concurrently or later.
Proficient with Excel.
Provides strategic budget analyses investigating financial data to provide decision makers with crucial information, ideas, solutions and options for the effective planning and execution of their budgets.
Prepares phasing plans, cost estimates, and performs cost analyses.
Monitors and tracks budgets and allocations utilizing financial systems to prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports; effectively communicates financial data and provides budget status reports to managers.
Reviews, analyzes, and substantiates budget and workforce requirements delivering detailed variance explanations with impacts and solutions for internal customers.
Analyzes, monitors funding status, initiates procurements and funding transactions relative to support contracts and other procurement vehicles.
Relies on experience and sound judgment to coordinate business activities, facilitate decisions, plan, and accomplish goals; works independently, when necessary, with minimal guidance.
Requirements:
Must be able to successfully function within a highly diverse hybrid team environment.
Must possess excellent interpersonal and analytical skills, and be able to maintain confidentiality of data.
Must be able to multi-task and prioritize work from multiple customers, meeting, or exceeding deadlines.
Must possess excellent communication skills and communicate effectively in writing, person to person and present financial data in meetings.
Proficient MS Office Applications.
Intermediate knowledge of Excel.
Knowledge & understanding of automated financial systems and budgetary report generation
Highly Preferred:
Knowledge and understanding of government financial processes.
SAP and Business Objects (BOBJ) or other governmental accounting systems
Experience Requirements:
HS Diploma + 4 years or greater of related experience
BA/BS Degree + 2 years or greater of related experience
MA/MS Degree + 0-2 years of related experience
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Proficient MS Office Applications
Intermediate knowledge of Excel
Intermediate knowledge of PowerPoint
A knowledge & understanding of automated financial systems and budgetary report generation
Candidates for this position must possess a HS Diploma or equivalent
Certification Requirements: N/A Education Requirements: Work Type: Hybrid- Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, AL Clearance Requirements: Public Trust * If you hold a clearance, we will maintain your clearance status, regardless of the type you hold.