Portfolio & Strategic Planning Analyst

Arcfield•Chantilly, VA

26d

About The Position

The Sponsor seeks a knowledgeable and motivated Budget Analyst with previous experience using the Sponsor's systems. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, providing strategic planning, programmatic planning, and budget support to Groups responsible for a high-visibility Special Access Program. This role involves supporting budget formulation, justification, and defense, developing and maintaining spend plans, and reconciling them with expenditures. The analyst will stay current with guidance, assist in creating baseline practices, and help resolve resource and budget issues. They will prepare documentation for budget exercises, assist with congressional language, perform financial trend analyses, and prepare briefings. The position requires coordinating budget requirements, responding to taskings, collaborating with Resource Management, and interfacing with executive-level management.

Requirements

Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
A degree (or equivalent experience) in quantitative analysis, financial analysis, social sciences, or a closely related field
BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
Knowledge of IC strategic planning and resource management processes
Knowledge of program planning and execution processes
Knowledge of business resource planning practices and cost analysis methodologies
Knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timeliness of data
Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices
Knowledge of program risk assessment principles and processes
Ability to apply analytic, diagnostic, and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate, and recommend to managers substantive solutions to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues
Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment
Demonstrated professional competence as a plans and budget officer
Demonstrated experience managing financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years
Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions
Demonstrated experience developing and implementing long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborating in strategic planning for future years
Demonstrated experience preparing budget exercise submissions; assimilating information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensuring submissions are rational, defensible, and executable
Demonstrated experience ensuring program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposing and implementing resource alignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances
Demonstrated broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization, budget development, and execution processes
Demonstrated experience constructing and maintaining background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, decisions, and supporting rationale to aid the component's resource management continuity
Strong organizational and time management skills
Demonstrated excellent writing skills and the ability to craft clear, concise requests for funding and responses to taskings
Excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues
Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment

Nice To Haves

Awareness of Customer’s programs, policies, and systems
Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

Provide strategic planning, programmatic planning, and budget support to the Groups responsible for a high-visibility Special Access Program.
Support the Groups in formulating, justifying, and defending budget builds.
Develop and maintain spend plans.
Reconcile spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommend options to address potential over- or under-utilization of resources.
Stay current with all Customer and Resource Management guidance and assist in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
Assist staff with researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
Prepare supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming.
Assist with writing congressional language for submission into the program build.
Perform short- and long-term financial trend analyses.
Prepare briefings, budgets, and spend plans to support programmatic activities.
Coordinate and respond to budget requirements and budget-related taskings.
Collaborate with Resource Management as required; attend and support resource meetings.
Continually interface with executive-level management, requiring the planning, presentation, and briefing of information.