Budget Analyst - SV-0560-J - Transportation Security Administration - Arlington, Virginia - EXPIRED

This Budget Analyst position is located in the Budget and Performance Division, within the Office of Finance and Administration (OFA), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will be using budget and financial data manipulation and integration techniques to accurately synthesize and consolidate large budget and financial data sets for analysis. Typical assignments include, but are not limited to:

• Using strong analytical skills to effectively derive and develop budgetary system requirements and designs for budgetary analysis templates and tools. Translating budgetary system process problems into sets of objectives with concise and logical requirements. Determining the needs of the Division for reports, requirements and analyses and developing the process for downloading the data from the system, analyzing the data, and developing the needed reports.
• Developing budgetary reports using business intelligence processes to analyze data, develop and implement system enhancements to meet changing organizational requirements. Enhancing existing macros to download and analyze data and reports and works with Finance and Finance\'s system staff to enhance reports, databases, etc.
• Developing and collaborating with other Budget and Performance branches to provide information that facilitates the TSA liaison with DHS, OMB, and Congressional Committees. Working with other branches to ensure the Directorate\'s products and recommendations are efficiently coordinated and consistent with DHS, TSA, OMB policy and Congressional intent. Performing strategic resource analysis using budget execution/program performance data to provide recommendations to leadership on the distribution of constrained resources to resolve budgetary challenges.
• Performing process improvements analysis and implements best practices; assesses strategies and alternatives, including commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) systems; conducting market research on commercially available solutions; identifying and implementing systems as required; developing technical and functional requirements to automate processes; conducting gap analyses between the current environment and the desired business requirements; and preparing a master project plan to guide implementation.
• Developing end user guidance and documentation, and training the BPD staff on the tools that are developed and processes and procedures.

To qualify for the SV-J Pay Band (equivalent to GS-14), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-I Pay Band or GS-13 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience includes applying principles, practices, laws and regulations to the Federal government budget process (e.g., budget formulation, justification, presentation, execution, and performance analysis of a program budget).

Desirable Factor: Experience in collecting, reviewing, and analyzing data from relational database management systems (RDBMS) and the use of Structured Query Language (SQL) to structure and present budget data from several different client programs and libraries (e.g., MS SQL Server, Oracle, Commercial Off-the-Shelf [COTS] products). In addition, the experience must have included work that required skill in MS Excel conditional formatting, advanced charting and the use of VBA and macros to project and forecast trends from available financial data.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

NOTE: Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour work week. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime.

You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

You will be evaluated based on a comparison of the position requirements against the quality and extent of the experience and/or related education as reflected in your resume and supporting documentation. You are encouraged to ensure work experiences clearly show possession of the competencies required for this position. We will compare your resume and supporting documentation to your responses on the assessment questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and any supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your category placement may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job.

When completing the assessment questionnaire for this position, you will be prompted to elect if you wish for your application to be considered as External (where Veterans’ Preference applies), as Status (current or former Federal Employees), and/or Internal to TSA as a current permanent or competitive temporary employee. At that time, please select the answer(s) that apply to you and your application to this position.

Candidates will be rated and ranked using Category Grouping procedures. Under Category Grouping, candidates will be rated and ranked into one of three categories:

Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;

Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceed the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job; and

Qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
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