Budget Analyst

USAJOBS; Fort Benning (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

USAJOBS at Fort Benning, Georgia seeks a Budget Analyst to manage budget execution, reconciliation, and financial reporting for DoD resources. The role supports fiscal compliance and data-driven funding decisions for Army units.

The incumbent will work with ledger systems, input commitments, and coordinate annual certifications, ensuring accurate accounting and transparent budgeting across programs.

Qualifications

• Experience monitoring budget execution processes per fiscal regulations.
• Ability to reconcile fund reports against ledgers to identify errors.
• Knowledge of budgeting, accounting and financial reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Monitor budget execution processes for approved resources and ensure proper funding allocation.
• Reconcile fund reports against ledger data to identify errors and prevent anti-deficiency violations.
• Analyze financial execution data weekly and monthly to advise on funding status and redistribute funds as needed.
• Consolidate budget execution data to draft recurring narratives and reports for higher headquarters.
• Enter daily commitment/obligation data in database systems and adjust ledger balances.
• Create financial codes for new fiscal years and maintain transaction records.
• Coordinate tri-annual certifications and reviews with external accounting offices and units.
• Review exception lists and penalties to take corrective actions on reports.

Skills

Budget monitoring

Budget execution

Fund reconciliation

Financial analysis

Reporting

Ledger management

Tools

Ledger systems

Accounting software

Job description

Summary

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: Serves as a Budget Analyst for the 75th Ranger at Fort Benning, Georgia. Your resume must be two pages or less.

Major Duties

• Monitor budget execution processes for approved organizational resources to ensure appropriately funded resources are properly allocated and expended according to fiscal regulations.
• Reconcile status of fund reports against ledger data to identify errors, correct variances, and prevent anti-deficiency violations.
• Analyze financial execution data weekly and monthly to advise management on funding status and recommend the redistribution of funds.
• Consolidate program budget execution and financial reporting data to draft recurring narrative and analytical reports for higher headquarters.
• Administer database commitment accounting systems to input daily commitment/obligation data and adjust ledger balances.
• Establish necessary financial codes for new fiscal years within ledger systems to maintain detailed transaction records.
• Coordinate tri-annual certifications and joint review processes with external accounting offices and supported units to verify report integrity.
• Review exception lists, negative un-liquidated obligations, and prompt payment interest penalties to execute corrective actions on accounting reports.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Evaluations

Once the announcement has closed, a review of your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to determine whether you meet the qualification requirements listed on this announcement. Please follow all instructions carefully when applying, errors or omissions may affect your eligibility. If, after reviewing your resume and/or supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may lose consideration for this position. Veterans and Military Spouses will be considered along with all other candidates.

Other Information

Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. This position requires a 1 year probationary period during which the agency evaluates your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In making this determination, the agency may consider your performance and conduct; agency needs and interests; whether your continued employment supports organizational or Government goals; and whether it promotes the efficiency of the Federal service. Continued employment requires written certification that it advances the public interest. Direct Deposit of Pay is required. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a(n) Human Capital & Resource Management Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. When you perform a Civilian Permanent Change of Station (PCS) with the government, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) considers the majority of your entitlements to be taxable. Visit https://www.dfas.mil/civilianemployees/civrelo/Civilian-Moving-Expenses-Tax-Deduction/ for more information. Permanent Change of Station (PCS) allowances may be authorized, subject to the provisions of the Joint Travel Regulations and an agency determination that a PCS move is in the Government Interest. Incentives such as student loan repayment, advance in hire, relocation, and recruitment MAY be authorized for qualifying selectee.