Lead Budget Analyst

$99,500 - $149,200/Yr

KBR - Bethesda, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Bethesda, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead Budget Analyst at KBR will play a crucial role in supporting the formulation and development of the agency budget for a government client in Maryland. This position involves collaborating with government officers to ensure effective budget execution and monitoring, while also producing detailed budget reports and analyses to support national security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist Government officers in IARPA's budget formulation.
• Support fiscal program budget builds.
• Develop and consolidate IARPA's spending plans for review.
• Document and validate financial commitments, obligations, and expenses.
• Accurately prepare and process transactions, and ensure payments are certified.
• Support the Government in budget program execution, monitor and track spending ensuring programs proceed within available resource constraints and consistent with programmatic goals.
• Produce budget reports for the Government's offices and programs, to include funding and activity summary profiles.
• Develop, respond to, and review budget exercise submissions, to ensure submissions are rational, defensible, executable, and align with the organization's strategic goals.
• Draft fiscal guidance and implementation schedules for each budget phase for the Government's review and acceptance.
• Draft response to tasks and inquiries such as Congressionally Directed Actions and Questions for the Record, coordinate inputs with other offices or agencies as necessary.
• Collect and analyze data for financial data calls and portfolio reviews.
• Perform cost reduction analysis.
• Track Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Passback requirements, to include draft responses for Government review.
• Review and evaluate IC budgets aligned to regional or functional issues.
• Review, evaluate, and count trend analysis on budgets pertaining to IC facilities leasing, and recall property management.
• Help ensure IARPA projects and processes are aligned to the Intelligence Program Budget Submission Exercise (IPBS) deadlines and milestones.
• Develop standard operation procedures.
• Recommend process improvements to the Government on budget development and execution.
• Produce cost benefit trade-offs and investment strategies.
• Record and track interagency agreements for facilitating Economy Act and other financial transactions.
• Work with ODNI and IC partners to ensure requirements are properly articulated and prioritized and cost estimates are comprehensive and realistic.

Requirements

• A CURRENT and ACTIVE TOP SECRET / SCI federal security clearance with Polygraph
• Five (5) or more years of relevant IC or DoD financial experience
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Cost Analysis, Mathematics, Economics or related field
• Experience planning and building a government fiscal year budget
• Experience in providing oversight of the execution of the approved budget
• Strong organizational and time-management skills

Nice-to-haves

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Knowledge or experience of government Internal Control Program purposes and requirements
• Knowledge or experience in Congressional budget actions, implications and applications to government programs
• Experience developing Independent Government Cost estimates

Benefits

• 401K plan with company match
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional training and development