Budget Analyst

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The Veterans Healthcare System in Fargo, ND is seeking a Budget Analyst at the GS-9/GS-11 level to support financial planning, budget formulation, and presenting budget data.

Qualified applicants must meet specialized experience or education combinations per OPM standards, with emphasis on gathering and analyzing funds status and preparing reports for management review.

Qualifications

• Specialized experience includes budget administration, financial data gathering and reporting.
• Graduate education can substitute for experience per official guidelines.
• Combination of education and experience may meet total requirements.

Skills

Specialized experience

Budget data analysis

MS Office

Education

Master's degree

PhD or doctoral degree

Graduate education as substitute

Job description

Employee will serve as a Budget Analyst located at the Veterans Healthcare System in Fargo, ND.

GS-9 Grade Level

To qualify for this Budget Analyst GS-9 grade level, applicant(s) must meet at least one of the following minimum qualification requirements.

• SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Requires one full year of specialized experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-7) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes performing financial work applying standardized practices of budget administration; gathering, reviewing, verifying, and consolidating a variety of financial data needed in the formulation and presentation of budget requests; using automated financial software and Microsoft Office programs to prepare budgetary and financial reports.
• SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Successfully completed a master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related.
• COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate education (in excess of one year) and specialized experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements.

GS-11 Grade Level

To qualify for this Budget Analyst GS-11 grade level, applicant(s) must meet at least one of the following minimum qualification requirements.

• SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Requires one full year of specialized experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-9) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. In addition to the specialized experience for the lower grade above, specialized experience for the GS-11 includes compiling statistical and narrative data to prepare a variety of reports, studies, fact sheets, and presentations covering status of funds; and developing analyses of actual and possible trends, investigating and explaining budgetary/fiscal deviations in obligations/expenditure.
• SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related.
• COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED): Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate education (in excess of two years) and specialized experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.