Job Location:
- Chantilly, VA
Qualifications:
- Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen
- TS/SCI with Polygraph
Position Overview:
The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to perform in the role of Portfolio and Strategic Planning Officer.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the Sponsor activities.
- Supports Office in formulating, justifying and defending 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 Directorates 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 re- programming.
- Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsors’ program build.
- Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses for the Office.
- Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities.
- Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
- Collaborates with Sponsor Directorate’s Resource Management Team as required; attends resource meetings.
- Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.
Required Qualifications:
- Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in quantitative analysis, financial analysis, social sciences, or a closely related field and a minimum of 10 years’ related work experience
- Active TS/SCI clearance with an FSP Polygraph required