Duties

Summary

THIS IS A NATIONAL GUARD TITLE 5 EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITION.

This National Guard position is for a BUDGET OFFICER, Position Description Number T5744000 and is part of the MD 175th ANG, National Guard.
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Responsibilities

Operates the Resource Management System, a network of commanders, resource advisors, cost center managers, and technical advisors aligned to the Wing/GSU organizational structure and oriented towards the management of appropriated funds and workdays for the accomplishment of unit missions. Provides resource managers with necessary guidance, information, knowledge, and training to accomplish mission goals and objectives. Designs presentation materials for, chairs, conducts, and documents the quarterly meetings of the Financial Working Group (FWG). Designs materials for, briefs, and documents the quarterly Financial Management Board (FMB). Designs, develops, conducts, and documents resource management training for all personnel responsible for the management and expenditure of appropriated funds and workdays. Training includes initial review or continuation training of resource management processes, procedures, and requirements. Maintains the training records for all resource managers. Ensures that continuity documentation maintained by organizational resource managers is complete, up-to-date, and relevant. Ensures compatibility with financial goals and objectives issued by higher authority. Reviews, consolidates, approves, modifies, or disapproves budgetary data and reports submitted for consistency with goals, objectives, reasonableness, and accuracy. Presents budgetary briefings with supporting statistical data to senior leadership who use the data to defend budget and manpower requirements and as a basis for making military decisions. Exercises technical authority and discretion in distributing appropriated funds and workdays, approving or disapproving expenditures, validating or invalidating unfunded requirements submissions, and determining the required degree of funds control measures based on interpretations of fiscal law, the ANG Financial Guidance, generally accepted accounting principles, and locally developed resource management policy. Oversees budget formulation, validation, compilation, and submission, requiring the frequent contact with commanders, resource advisors, higher headquarters (ANG/FMA), and field counterparts. Develops, prepares, presents, justifies, and defends analyses and summaries of budget performance at FWG and FMB meetings, staff meetings, impromptu meetings with senior leadership, related conferences, and during compliance or readiness inspections. Reviews initial funding (programmed or received) and devises and carries out apportionment to Reviews and apportions initial programmed or received funding for "model-driven" programs and other commodities and ensures unit program managers, resource advisors, and commanders are notified of related distributions. Promptly reviews, validates, adjusts, and finalizes unit rephasing and reprogramming requests. Follows up on approved distributions by ensuring the prompt and accurate loading of fund targets to the accounting and supply systems, and by notifying the affected unit's resource advisor. Ensures the summary fund targets in the accounting records match the annual and quarterly amounts on ANG/FMA funding documents. Identifies fund shortages and imbalances and takes action as necessary. Investigates organizational efficiency and performance, assuring compliance with prescribed procedures and functions. Furnishes advice and assistance to commanders and resource advisors in problem areas and attempts on-the-spot corrections, recommending improvements when warranted. Ensures all unfunded requirements are captured, and any other shortfalls not previously identified, and submits prioritized list to ANG/FMA before specified due dates. Reviews and analyzes operations to determine causes of variances from budgets, time-phased schedules, and cost limitations. Oversees the unfunded requirements rating process to gain the required recommendations and approvals during FWG and FMB meetings. Develops strategies for solving funding problems including using alternative methods, sources and timing of funding or deferring or canceling requirements when supplemental funding cannot be secured. Submits "out-of-cycle" requests to ANG/FMA for unfunded requirements when a shortfall develops, often accompanied by unique circumstances to support amounts requested. Analyzes, evaluates, and identifies the areas and types of incremental funding and workdays required, initiates corrective or improvement actions where needed, and reports overall cost to ANG/FMA. Briefs the related funds availability for conversion or mission addition/change activity, staff requirements, historical trends, and straw man budget recommendations, including suggested decrements and/or alternate methods of funding at wing staff and impromptu meetings, and recommends major reprogramming actions when necessary.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Travel Required

Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
12

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

This position is open to On-Board Federal Technicians of the Maryland National Guard only. Applicants must submit current copies of their SF-50 to verify eligibility. FM Level 2 Certification financial management certification within two years (24 months) of his or her initial hire appointment date, reassignment, or merit promotion appointment date.
Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation. May be required to successfully complete a probationary period. Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.

Qualifications

GENERAL EXPERIENCE :All on-board Title 5 Excepted Service employees assigned to Series GS-0560 positions, must be certified at the next higher grade-level before considered as eligible for merit
promotions to that level; and, must have a minimum of one year on-the-job experience in the grade
immediately below the next higher level. However, a new hire applicant must have competent
experiences that are commensurate/equivalent to the budget analysis program business with
demonstrated understandings of the program's principles and concepts defined by the NG Title 5
Excepted Service Series GS-0560 position descriptions.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE : To qualify for the GS-0560-12 Non-Supervisory Position, the
candidate must be eligible for entry into the position's financial management certification career
program based on the position's GS-grade before final approval and appointment is processed. A
candidate must have at least 36 months of finance budget experiences and competencies that
provided in-depth knowledge of financial principles and procedures. Candidate must have a
comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of the National Guard financial budget
business program requirements. A candidate must have expanded experiences and training that
that demonstrate the competencies to lead, follow directions, read, retain, and understand a variety
of instructions, regulations, policies and procedures.

finance; -or- in a combination of the following required disciplines: Accounting, business, finance,
economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organizational
management is optimum. Must have a high school diploma or general education development (GED) diploma. An undergraduate degree and/or a post graduate degree from an accredited college/university in NG

Education

If you are using Education to qualify for this position, To qualify for GS-0560 Title 5 Excepted
Service 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

You must provide transcripts or other documentation to support your Educational claims. To receive credit for Education, you must provide documentation of proof that you meet the Education requirements for this 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 ).

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application .

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.

Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics): Detailed knowledge of general budgeting principles, practices, precedents, systems, and techniques and the ability to interrelate funding, manpower requirements, and expense concepts to formulate and justify dissimilar civilian and military budgets considering multiple periods of execution in both single and multi-year appropriations.
--Knowledge of the DoD, USAF, and Air National Guard financial planning processes is required to serve as the principal advisor and consultant to the ANG wing's senior leadership regarding budgetary matters.
--Detailed knowledge of legislation, policies, and procedures, and regulations governing the use of appropriated funds to effectively oversee and manage all budget programs.
--Knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES) corporate process to develop skills for interpreting and briefing commanders, resource advisors, and other resource managers on how funds are received at base level.
--Knowledge of multiple dissimilar organizational missions to review, analyze, edit, and recommend approval or disapproval of proposed operating budgets, unfunded requirements requests, or requests for reprogramming and quarterly authorities; this knowledge is also used to analyze budget estimates for the annual financial plan or multiple requests for unfunded requirements, for which the incumbent must take into consideration multiple periods of execution in both single and multi-year appropriations in order to consolidate such estimates into balanced and prioritized submissions to the National Guard Bureau.
--Knowledge of financial management objectives of higher authorities to ensure policies comply with precedents and controls, and to provide guidance to management officials.
--Knowledge of appropriation accountability, regulatory/statutory limitations, scope and latitude permitted by law and regulations, manpower accounting principles and procedures, management information systems and subsystems, and the relationship between the budget and accounting and reporting systems sufficient to report the status of resources, execute the operating budget, and provide authoritative advice regarding the legal use of funds to commanders, resource advisors, and other resource managers.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Secret

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

To apply for this position, you must submit a complete Application Package which includes:

1. Your resume showing work schedule, hours worked per week, dates (including Month and Year, e.g., 02/2017, Feb 2017, etc.) of employment and duties performed.

2. Other supporting documents: This position is open to On-Board Federal Technicians of the Maryland National Guard only. Applicants must submit current copies of their SF-50 to verify eligibility.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.