This vacancy is for a GS-0560-12/13, Budget Analyst located in the Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard in Washington, District of Columbia.
To qualify at the GS-12 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Specialized experience must include the following: 1) Providing technical and administrative assistance in carrying out budget processes and practices; 2) Analyzing internal controls to ensure compliance with statutes and regulations; 3) Monitoring funding agreements for program execution, billing and reconciliation; AND 4) Recommending and implementing new or amended budgetary policies and procedures. To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, applicants must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level in the federal sector. Specialized experience must include the following: 1) Monitoring obligation of funds, and processes and internal controls to ensure compliance with statutes and regulations; 2) Reviewing reports and providing advice and guidance on improvements of funding programs and budgets; 3) Recommending and developing new or amended budgetary policies and procedures; 4) Providing budgetary assistance pertaining to the financial aspects between various agreements (i.e. security and inter-agency agreements); AND 5) Maintaining oversight of the agency's cost of professional and technical training courses to foreign countries. NOTE: All experience statements (i.e., duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire) copied from this announcement and pasted into your resume will not be considered as a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. NOTE: Education cannot be substituted for experience at this grade level. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. The Office of Personnel management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule, C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.
You will serve as a Budget Analyst and be responsible for financial/resources management aspects of security cooperation and security assistance agreements/inter-agency agreements (IAAs), in addition to the pricing/costing of security assistance resident and exportable training courses. Also, you will develop and maintain standard costing methodologies in pricing USCG professional and technical training courses provided, or sold, to foreign countries under the applicable Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of State (DoS) authorities. In addition, you are responsible for ensuring that the financial activities under their purview are compliant with legislative, regulatory, and policy mandates, constraints, and applicable standards, in order to ensure program auditability and accountability. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Providing expert budgetary and subject matter guidance and assistance across all DCO-I programs concerning the legislative and regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures pertaining to the financial aspects of security assistance/foreign assistance-related agreements. Developing and maintaining standard costing methodologies, ensuring the propriety of the "additional" costs used in pricing USCG professional and technical training courses provided, or sold, to foreign countries under the DoD's security assistance and other DoS foreign assistance authorities. Providing subject matter expert guidance to a series of regional portfolio managers in the development of budgets for individual portfolios (a sub-set of the total number of portfolios managed). Providing for the life-cycle management of assigned DCO-I funding agreements involving the most important and substantive departmental programs. Conducting careful and extensive analyses of complex issues/problems that often involve the consideration of impacts across programs, agencies, legislation, policy, regulations, and standards. Developing, recommending, and implementing new or amended budgetary policies and procedures.