Budget Analyst (Senior) with Security Clearance

Quantech Services Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TS/SCI w/ CI Poly

Job summary

Quantech Services Inc. is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to support the NRO across directorates, programs, and staffs. The role requires evaluating baseline and spend plans, performing cross-program analyses, and advising executive management on resource allocations.

Responsibilities include verifying budget estimates, tracking performance metrics, and coordinating with DoD and IC partners. Candidate should bring expertise in budget/finance/resource management and be prepared to analyze data

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of quantitative techniques: statistics, trend analysis, modeling and simulation.
• Understanding IC budgetary principles and procedures.
• Experience with MSA lifecycle resource planning, PMPs and APB development.

Responsibilities

• Make recommendations on program baseline and spend plans at Directorate and NRO levels.
• Analyze cross-program impacts to determine resources and trade-offs; present to executive management.
• Review budget estimates and requirements for initiatives across Directorates; assess funding impacts.
• Develop, monitor and report NRO performance measures in coordination with NRO/IC/DoD.
• Prepare data packages and oversight materials; reconcile FIRsT data to budget status.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Budget principles

MSA lifecycle

Cost analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical or business

Associate’s degree with 16 years IC/DoD experience

Job description

The Senior Budget Analyst performs a variety of resource management duties in support of NRO Program, Office, Directorate, and Staff components. Tasks:

• Make recommendations regarding program baseline and program spend plans at the Directorate and NRO-Levels. Conduct cross-program analyses at the Program Office through Staff-Levels to determine impacts of program performance and progress against plans, determine resources necessary to accomplish assigned goals and objectives; identify resource trade-offs within and among competing programs and provide executive managers with resource alternatives
• Make recommendations regarding Directorate and/or NRO-wide budget tracks at Directorate, project, sub-project, and Major System Acquisition (MSA)-Levels
• Make recommendations regarding completeness of budget estimates and requirements for new and existing initiatives across Directorates; make recommendations that allow Government personnel to assess funding impacts on existing program budgets and schedules and to recommend resource solutions to executive management within Directorate and NRO budget constraints
• Make recommendations regarding cross-program analyses on program performance and progress for accuracy; propose Directorate or NRO-wide sources for resource adjustments, as required
• Make recommendations regarding final reviews of Directorate and NRO-Level submissions for budget exercises and the IPBS, IPOM, CBJB, and CJB. Conduct cross-program analyses and resolves cross-program, Directorate, and NRO discrepancies prior to submission for executive management review
• Make recommendations regarding Directorate and NRO-Level data in the NRO FIRsT, NEAR, NFIS, FIT, EpX Studio, Intelligence Resource Information System * (IRIS), and Select and Native Programming (SNaP) systems for accuracy and completeness. Reconcile FIRsT to ensure valid data/status at the Directorate-Level and, if necessary, take action to reconcile requirements to budget
• Make recommendations regarding operating guidance, which incorporates all Congressional marks and management decisions across Directorate and NRO programs
• Develop, monitor, and report NRO Performance measures. Collaborate and coordinate across the NRO, IC, and DoD.
• Assess oversight guidance documents (Consolidated Intelligence Guidance, National Intelligence Strategy, National Defense Strategy, Office of Management and Budget) for fiscal, programmatic, and budget impact
• Develop and report data calls (Mission Of Interest, Countries Of Interest, CYBER, Science & Technology, etc.) for Oversight
• Develop, coordinate, and submit appropriate fiscal file data packages to oversight
• Maintain budget history through annual IPBS, IPOM, CBJB, and CJB in both the Budget Closure Tool and the DVT and supporting data
• Make recommendations for executive summaries, briefings, and TIER action responses for Director and Deputy Director, BPO Resource Management
• Identify and follow key Legislative and Executive Branch actions affecting NRO programs and resources, assess the intent and impact of legislative language, and ensure actions are reflected and incorporated into budget documentation
• Make recommended changes to Directorate/Office IPBS and CBJB text in the FIRsT CRS Module. Once NRO Volume IV CBJB text and resource exhibits are finalized upload into ODNI IRIS.
• Use new or creative analysis techniques to perform complex trend analysis across multiple sets of financial data sources or when data sources are lacking in support of Executive-Level decision making
• Propose design improvements and recommendations for improved use of corporate resource information repositories, databases, decision support tools, strategies, processes, procedures, and reports to ensure accurate financial reporting and management oversight in support of program initiatives
• Make recommendations regarding BLI requests at the NRO-Level in compliance with NRO policies on Contracts, CLIN s, Appropriations, ETs, and BOCs
• Make recommendations regarding Directorate and NRO execution, allowing appropriate methodologies to determine if the program is proceeding within available resources and is consistent with goals
• Make recommendations regarding resource realignments and sources at the Directorate and NRO-Levels as required to maintain program execution or to respond to unplanned circumstances
• Maintain appropriate Directorate and NRO-Level controls to minimize data in accuracy and/or unauthorized use of NRO funds
• Consolidate and review NRO-Level UFRs, recommending changes, prioritization and source to executive management
• Make recommendations regarding final draft budget summaries, charts, memoranda, issue papers, and talking points for executive management
• Make recommendations regarding final review of correspondence, presentations, and briefings in response to action items
• Lead and participate in cross-NRO program meetings to develop responses
• Make recommendations regarding consolidating NRO-wide inputs on the development, revision, implementation, data collection, and reporting of performance measures. Coordinate with external oversight on NRO submissions for consideration by authorized Government personnel Job Requirements Required Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical OR Business-related discipline (Advanced degree preferred) AND Target 12 years of relevant experience (budget/finance/resource management) within IC or DOD* OR Associate’s Degree in any discipline AND Target 16 years within IC or DoD* with 8 of those 16 years within the NRO
• NRO, IC, then DoD work experience is desired in order of preference* Clearance: TS/SCI w/CI Poly Desired Skill Set:
• Demonstrated knowledge of various quantitative techniques used to analyze data, develop models, and interpret results. Competencies include descriptive statistics, trend analysis, learning curve theory, modeling, and simulation
• Demonstrated knowledge of IC budgetary principles and procedures
• Demonstrated knowledge of acquisition management regulations, practices, policies, and procedures, including MSA lifecycle resource planning, practices, and procedures; APB development; and PMPs
• Demonstrated experience in the application of cost analysis methodologies in a MSA
• Demonstrated ability to recognize when decisions or information should be referred to a higher authority We hire Military Veterans! Security clearance required TSSCI CI Poly Travel 0 - 10%