Senior Budget Analyst (Specialist) - Hybrid #910

Clearance: Public Trust Required 

Location:  Washington D.C./Hybrid 

Senior Budget Analyst (Specialist) - Hybrid #910

NTIA Agile Mission Support Services

Position Summary

The Senior Budget Analyst (Specialist) provides advanced budget execution, formulation support, financial analysis, and resource-management expertise to NTIA. The position develops actionable insight into funding, staffing, portfolio performance, and emerging resource requirements so leaders can make timely, fiscally responsible decisions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead budget execution and resource analyses involving funding availability, commitments, obligations, expenditures, burn rates, variances, staffing, and projected requirements.
• Develop recurring and ad hoc budget reports, forecasts, spend plans, operating plans, briefing materials, and executive decision-support products.
• Conduct what-if, trend, and variance analyses; identify funding risks, unfunded requirements, emerging issues, and opportunities to realign resources.
• Support portfolio-management activities by integrating financial, staffing, program, and operational data across organizations or initiatives.
• Coordinate budget data calls, validate submissions, reconcile data across systems and source documents, and maintain defensible audit trails.
• Advise program and operational stakeholders on budget processes, funding status, reporting requirements, and the implications of resource decisions.
• Support year-end closeout, continuing-resolution planning, funding changes, audit requests, executive taskers, and temporary surge requirements.
• Create and improve templates, SOPs, workflows, metrics, dashboards, and controls that strengthen budget visibility and reporting consistency.
• Use clear, accurate, objective, and timely reporting methods and safeguard sensitive financial information.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, or a closely related field.
• At least seven years of progressively responsible budget or financial-analysis experience, including substantial federal budget execution or resource-management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze obligations, expenditures, funding availability, burn rates, variances, staffing costs, and forecasts.
• Experience preparing executive-level budget briefings, data calls, spend plans, operating plans, and decision-support analyses.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience using federal financial-management or reporting systems.
• Strong analytical, organizational, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and short deadlines.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the Public Trust designation or security clearance required for the assigned work.

Desired Qualifications

• Master's degree or CGFM, CDFM, or equivalent Government financial-management certification.
• Experience with Oracle Federal Financials (Business Application Systems), PRISM, Power BI, Tableau, or SharePoint.
• Working knowledge of the federal budget cycle, appropriations law, OMB guidance, apportionment, reprogramming, and year-end closeout.
• Experience integrating budget, staffing, acquisition, and program-performance data for portfolio decisions.
• Experience supporting NTIA, the Department of Commerce, or another federal civilian agency.