BUDGET ANALYST

First Roles; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

First Roles in ND is seeking a Budget Analyst to support routine budget analysis for the ND National Guard in Bismarck. This Title 5 position does not require military membership.

You will assist in preparing estimates and justifications, and ensure funding requests are well-documented and compliant with directives. The role involves interpreting policy, guiding leadership, and drafting a variety of documents.

Responsibilities

• Assisting in the preparation of budget estimates and justifications.
• Interpreting and applying directives, policy, guidance, and circulars.
• Perform moderately difficult and complex assignments consisting of well-precedented tasks to further orient the employee in the application of occupational principles, methods, and techniques.
• Independently plans and carries out successive steps and handles problems and deviations in work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices.
• Prepares or edits narrative justification and projected funding needs, and assures data in request is formally and accurately documented in a wide variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Provides advice, interpretation, and guidance to customers and leadership.
• Drafts or prepares a variety of documents to include newsletter items, responses to routine inquiries, reports, letters, and other related documents.
• Uses software such as word processing, spreadsheets, program language, plotting software, etc., to facilitate work.

Job description

THIS IS A ND NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION. Military membership is NOT required. This ND National Guard position is for a BUDGET ANALYST, Position Description Number T6356000 and is part of the ND JOINT STAFF, National Guard.

The primary purpose of this position is to perform routine budget analysis functions in assigned areas.

Duties typically performed include the following:

• Assisting in the preparation of budget estimates and justifications.
• Interpreting and applying directives, policy, guidance, and circulars.
• Perform moderately difficult and complex assignments consisting of well-precedented tasks to further orient the employee in the application of occupational principles, methods, and techniques.
• Independently plans and carries out successive steps and handles problems and deviations in work assignments in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices.
• Prepares or edits narrative justification and projected funding needs, and assures data in request is formally and accurately documented in a wide variety of forms, schedules, and reports.
• Provides advice, interpretation, and guidance to customers and leadership.
• Drafts or prepares a variety of documents to include newsletter items, responses to routine inquiries, reports, letters, and other related documents.
• Uses software such as word processing, spreadsheets, program language, plotting software, etc., to facilitate work.