Summary This position is for a Budget Analyst, PD: D1008000 located in the Recruiting and Retention Battalion, JFHQ - RRB in Marietta, Georgia. This is a full-time, Excepted Permanent, dual status position which requires Georgia Army National Guard Membership. Area of Consideration: Open to current members of the Georgia Army National Guard. Responsibilities As a Budget Analyst, GS-0560-09, you will: Serve as the functional point of contact for day-to-day budget/financial issues. Work with Major Subordinate Commands (MSC) and budget office counterparts to obtain, monitor, and track organization's funds. Work closely with supervisors/managers and/or project managers in utilization of resources, resolving problems, and determining funding/resource requirements. Compile findings and make recommendations for development and implementation of procedures for financial management and budgeting functions in support of organizational programs/activities. Perform budget formulation work involving review and preparation of budget estimates and financial plans. Review and analyze budget requests submitted by organizational activities to ensure their consistency, accuracy, and adherence to instructions. Research, consolidate, and summarize budgetary data from source documents, automated budgetary systems, accounting records, and reports for use in preparing budget estimates and annual financial plans. Interpret source information and properly apply it to the budget. Review organizational historical data and/or match funding requests or projected costs of selected line items with past records to determine trends in spending and forecast annual funding needs. Analyze data for prior, current, and out year in preparing financial plans. Develop consolidated budget, and review and draft statements for justifying funding requests. Review budget submissions for compliance with rules, regulations, and procedures. Perform budget execution and administration work involving the monitoring of obligations incurred and the actual expenditures of funds. Monitor, track, and review obligations, expenditures, reimbursable orders, and requests for allotments, identifying and reporting differences that are not in keeping with annual work plans. Compare obligations and expenditures and identifies conditions over or under obligation of funds. Prepare and conduct reprogramming and adjustments of funding to cover short falls, unanticipated expenses, and/or unexpected emergencies, identifying and referring to higher level officials reprogramming actions which require prior approval. Obtain and provide information concerning the propriety of using funds for specific purposes by researching appropriate legal and regulatory guides. Make recommendations for transfer of funds between accounts under the same appropriation or allotment when funds are needed to cover increases in obligations or when expenditures fall below established limits. Verify, enter, and adjust budgetary data in a variety of forms, schedules, and reports. Monitor year-end closing to ensure proper and full use of funds. Provide advice, assistance, and guidance on budgeting and related information and conduct analyses, reviews and special studies of budget and/or related information. Provide advice on budget and related matters such as types of funding available, effects of budgetary changes on related activities, and status and use of funds. Compile, prepare, and convey information about the budget and programs of the organization. Prepare guidance and/or interpretation of standard procedures and regulations relating to the organization's budget and financial procedures/processes. Conduct budget related training of organizational personnel on budget processes, procedures, requirements, etc. Research and analyze available factual information, trends in the cost of accomplishing specific work objectives, and/or relationships among organizational needs/objectives. Evaluate results for possible effect on program plans and funding. Conduct special studies of financial program and funding requirements to ensure the availability of funds. Utilize common budgetary methods and techniques, apply basic statistical formulas, and contrast/compare current and historical budget and program data in conducting analyses and studies. Use budgetary and other automated system(s) and computer-generated products in accomplishing budgeting/funding assignments. Perform quality checks of organization's automated system database information, working with appropriate point of contact to resolve any significant problems. Use available computer software programs to produce required budget reports, plans, schedules, etc. Use computer products to facilitate effective analyses of budget information. Perform other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Each applicant must fully substantiate (in her/his own words) that they meet the requirements of the specialized experience listed below; otherwise, the applicant will be considered unqualified for this vacancy. DO NOT COPY THE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT OR THE POSITION DESCRIPTION. IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED UNQUALIFIED FOR THE VACANCY. Please ensure that you have included beginning and ending dates (month and year) for all jobs listed on your resume. Military Grades: Non-Specific. General Experience: Candidate must possess certification at the next higher level and have a minimum of one year on-the-job experience in the grade immediately below the next higher level; have a validated understanding of the basic principles and concepts of the occupational series and grade. Specialized Experience: Candidate must possess experience that prepares applicant to perform the prescribed duties of the position; demonstrate financial management certification career level, and assigned military skills. Education Substitution of Education for Specialized Experience. To qualify for GS-0560 dual status technician positions on the basis of completed undergraduate or graduate education, the college degree education must be in one of -or- be a combination of the following required disciplines: Accounting, business, finance, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational management. Technician applicants, who completed the Army or the Air Force Financial Technical School course and were awarded the applicable and compatible military skills, are considered minimally qualified for the GS-07 or GS-09 entry-level position. Additional Information If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency (https://www.sss.gov/RegVer/wfRegistration.aspx). 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.