Senior Budget Analyst, 22 SOPS

Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado is searching for a Senior Budget Analyst for 22 SOPS (NH-0560-03, GS 12/13 equivalent).

Description:
Mission Delta 31, 22d Space Operations Squadron is seeking a high-performing, analytical Senior Budget Analyst to drive mission-critical financial programs and secure funding required to operate, sustain, and equip space operations. Operating as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the selected candidate will bridge strategic intent with fiscal reality across the entire budget lifecycle, spearheading multi-year budget estimates, funding justifications, and spending forecasts aligned with United States Space Force and Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center requirements.

This pivotal role demands extensive expertise in executing diverse appropriations, analyzing spending trends, and evaluating complex tenant reimbursement processes. As a key organizational liaison, the analyst will represent the squadron across higher headquarters (HHQ), Combat Forces Command (CFC), and Geographically Separated Units (GSUs) to negotiate resource allocations while overseeing critical government travel and purchase card programs, including the Defense Travel System (DTS), Government Travel Card (GTC), and Government Purchase Card (GPC) as an approving official. Ultimately, the position requires an exceptional communicator and strategic problem-solver who can deliver high-impact executive briefings, prepare authoritative staff summary packages, and navigate Space Force resourcing structures to directly advance national space readiness.

What a typical day looks like:
- Budget Strategy & Forecasting: Collaborating with program managers across the Squadron to build annual and multi-year budget estimates, researching spending trends, and drafting clear narrative justifications to secure necessary funding. Maintain updated unfunded requirements tracking sheet.
- Active Financial Monitoring: Tracking real-time expenditures and obligations, identifying differences between actual spending and planned budgets, and proposing swift, strategic adjustments to optimize resource allocation.
- Program Administration: Overseeing key organizational programs, including the approval and management of official staff travel (via the Defense Travel System) and managing high-level government purchase and travel card programs.
- Briefings & Reporting: Preparing concise status-of-funds reports, drafting formal correspondence or position papers, and presenting clear briefings to leadership to support critical decision-making.
- Communication with HHQ: Squadron focal point for meetings with Higher Headquarters and completing their reporting task requirements.

Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate must possess an extensive background in federal and military financial management; specifically in developing squadron-level budget requirements, monitoring diverse funding sources (appropriations, allotments, and reimbursables), and executing multi-year estimates for United States Space Force and Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center programs. Candidate must have proven administrative and training expertise in key government systems, including the Defense Travel System (DTS), the Government Travel Card (GTC) program, and serving as an approving official for the Government Purchase Card (GPC). Additionally, they must possess exceptional critical-thinking and communication skills to resolve complex budgetary problems, compile technical staff packages, and deliver briefings to senior leadership under tight deadlines.

Requirements

Conditions of employment

• A non-disclosure agreement must be signed.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 30 days per year.
• Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
• This is a Financial Management Level 2 Certified position IAW the National Defense Authorization Act (NOAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, Section 1599d. I
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "Unscheduled Telework".
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• Employee must within 30-days of assuming this position and annually thereafter, file an OGE-450, "Confidential Financial Disclosure Report." Employee is required to attend annual ethics and procurement integrity training.
• PCS is not authorized. Incentive is not authorized.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Qualifications

The 0560 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements . Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

Additional information

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