Multi-Vendor Independent Test Lead

Responsibilities

The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (also known as Plans and Budget Officer). The candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support to the PMO portfolio. The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics, provide support to financial, budget, planning and execution, and organizing financial data into up-to-date records.

The responsibilities of the Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provides strategic and programmatic plans and budget support for cloud activities
• Supports the Office in formulating, justifying, and defending the budget build
• Develops and maintains spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under - utilization of resources
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorate's Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with the guidance
• Assists personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor's program build
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses for the Office
• Prepares briefings, budgets, spend plans, and programmatic activities
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget-related taskings
• Collaborates with Directorate's Resource Management Team as required; attends resource meetings
• Continually interfaces with executive-level management requiring the planning, presentation, and briefing of information.

Qualifications

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer
• Proven ability to run reports in COGNOS, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, and P6 to include tracking and assessing execution constantly
• Exhibits full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions
• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years
• Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable
• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposes and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes
• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrates excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear, concise request for funding and responses to taskings
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment

Desired skills:

• Awareness of Sponsor's programs, policies, and systems
• Ability to work, and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.