Budget Analyst

Overview

Tecolote Research is seeking a highly skilled professional with excellent analytical and communication skills to execute the duties of a senior budget analyst supporting the Space Launch Delta 45 Comptroller Office.

Responsibilities

• Manage incoming customer funding and requirements for high visibility commercial launch providers, perform budgeting, and financial analysis vital to the fiscal integrity of SLD 45 operations
• Review, analyze, and compile data from various financial systems in support of formal presentations of budgets
• Analyze, evaluate, and promote improvements in Reimbursable Budget Authority (RBA) policies and processes to utilize resources more efficiently on the Eastern Range (ER)
• Serves as a financial analyst responsible for analyzing and formulating the SLD 45's budget portfolio, budget forecasts, processes, and/or related budget information for the O&M appropriation
• Provide budget expertise and research to support POM development, Budget Execution Reviews, and other financial management and execution reviews
• Prepare response strategies to avoid potential budget cuts; may require revisions to budget allocations and reprogramming actions
• Expert analysis and reconciliation of current, prior, and cancelling year budgets
• Advise senior leadership of budget propriety, new start implications and compliance with other legal and DoD regulatory guidance

Skills Required

• A minimum nine (9) years of DoD Acquisition Financial Management and or Budget Analysis experience to include a minimum of five (5) years working in a space program environment
• Launch and Range acquisition and execution experience is highly desirable
• Knowledge of government or corporate accounting; familiarization with government funding policies and regulations; Department of Defense Financial Management Regulations
• Experience with Space and/or Major Range Test Facility Base (MRTFB) and RBA funding and reimbursable charging guidelines
• Ability to select and apply a variety of standard or new analytical methods/techniques to budgetary processes and special studies
• Ability to gather, assemble, and analyze data to recognize issues, project potential effects, prepare summary reports of findings/conclusions, and provide recommendations or courses of actions
• Ability to identify areas of funding shortfalls and excesses and propose re-programming/re-phasing actions as needed
• Experience with the following tools and systems: FM-Suite, CCaR, Wide Area Workflow, myInvoice, GAFS, MOCAS, PMRT, IDECS, CRIS, PIEE, DEAMS, ADVANA, PowerBI, DEAMS, and Excel
• Minimum Secret Clearance is required
• U.S. citizenship is required
• Education: Bachelor's degree in math, business/economics, finance, accounting, engineering, or statistics is required

Education

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in math, engineering, business, or the sciences.