PROGRAM ANALYST

Duties

• You will serve as the primary point of contact for financial matters on assigned projects, providing information and analytical advice to Customer Advocates and management on fund expenditures, tasking, monitoring, and final billing actions.
• You will provide financial leadership for ongoing and emergent projects, gathering and analyzing data on workload execution, production status, fund expenditures, and manpower across multiple execution areas.
• You will analyze program and system applications for improvement, applying analytical methods and techniques to develop or troubleshoot procedures and promote maximum project efficiency and economy.
• You will provide current-year guidance and mentoring to Customer Advocates, department managers, employees, and project managers on stabilized banded labor rates, service cost center rates, and out-year planning.
• You will act as the Comptroller Department liaison for one or more Customer Advocates, divisions, or branches and provide oversight of financial operations to ensure fiscal control and proper execution of funds.
• You will perform long-range planning activities using the approved workload planning process and system for assigned projects, generating reports and conducting complex studies and analyses to solve problems, identify trends, and document conditions.
• You will conduct detailed analyses of project performance, brief managers on findings, and make recommendations for financial improvement and corrective actions.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• This is a bargaining unit position.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• This is a Mission Essential position. You will be required to ensure organization or facility continuity of operations and/or completion of tasks that are considered essential to the mission designated by a local or command decision.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:

• Experience working with a financial team, including in the Department of the Navy or a similar federal financial environment, involving financial reporting, financial analysis, tracking financial health and metrics, ensuring financial accuracy, and/or applying financial policy.
• Ability to work collaboratively with others on a team and provide financial analysis and advice to funds holders, technical project managers, and customer advocates.
• Providing analytical and evaluative advice on direct, overhead, service cost center, and capital investment fund expenditures, including tasking and allocation of funding, monitoring execution of funds at a macro level, and initiating or recommending final billing actions on completed projects.
• Gathering and analyzing data on workload execution, production status, projections of fund expenditures, manpower, and other aspects of the execution phase for ongoing or emergent projects.
• Applying knowledge of financial management principles, Defense Working Capital Fund accounting procedures, concepts, methodology, reporting, and cost control, as well as regulations, principles, practices, and methods of budget execution, formulation, and review.
• Conducting detailed analyses of project or program performance, identifying issues, and making recommendations for financial improvement, efficiency, and economy.
• Collaborating across technical project managers, customer advocates, and with external sponsor financial personnel to support fund management, workload forecasting, and proper execution of funds.
• Performing long-range planning activities and generating analytical reports or studies related to workload planning for assigned projects.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site:

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at:

PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation.

ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application: 1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link:

Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position.

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.