Summary You will serve as a FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST in the COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE of NAVY WARFARE DEVELOPMENT CENTER CENTER. Responsibilities You will formulate budget and cost estimates to support plans, programs, and activities. You will review and evaluate budget requests and report obligations and expenditures. You will develop, determine, and interpret budgetary policies, practices, and procedures. You will research and locate accounting, budgetary, and financial information and prepare summaries for use by managers. You will use a variety of accounting systems to analyze, forecast, and control resources/funds for special programs, payroll, and travel. You will interpret and apply laws, regulations, and policies, to specific financial requirements applying appropriation law, accounting and budgetary policies and regulations and appropriations. You will verify Statements of Work (SOW) for completeness, correctness, consistency, compliance, or authenticity. You will inform OPTAR holders of approved budgets while updating them on the status of requirements and the level of execution for current and prior fiscal years and respond to customer inquiries within 24 hours. You will determine the priority of work to be accomplished to meet organizational deadlines and adjust work schedule to meet changing or emergency requirements. You will monitor commitments, obligations and expenditures for assigned programs/funds and provides funds status reports to assigned OPTAR holders. You will extract financial information from databases to ensure compliance with financial regulations. You will develop and brief recommendations to Budget Officer/Comptroller and inform management when reprogramming actions are needed. You will create dashboards using visualization for use by managers. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications To qualify for a GS-09, your resume must demonstrate at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the GS-07 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 interpreting and applying budgetary policies, precedents, procedures, regulations and guidelines of a functional area. Experience identifying, analyzing and resolving a range of budgetary problems such as development of alternative methods of funding. Experience utilizing administrative and financial management systems. Experience formulating budget estimates for programs in which funding requirements have changed significantly. Experience exhibiting a high degree of skill in analytical reasoning, ability to apply skill to the identification, analysis and conceptualization of budgetary problems and development of alternative solutions is required. Experience using Department-wide financial system and reporting requirements sufficient to plan and conduct financial studies and write reports; conducting financial reviews, determining compliance with generally accepted accounting and financial management principles and standards. To qualify for a GS-07, your resume must demonstrate at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the level of difficulty and responsibility to that of the GS-05 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 applying functions, goals, objectives, work processes, and funding sources sufficient to related needs and accomplishments to anticipated or actual dollar figures. Experience implementing budgetary, accounting, and/or financial administration practices, procedures, regulations and policies of the organization. Experience working with financial and accounting systems such as Standard Accounting, and Reporting Systems-Field Level (STARS-FL) and Command Financial Management Systems (CFMS-F), and governing policies and procedures imposed by financial control agencies. Experience analyzing source information and applying it to specific areas of work. Experience researching to locate accounting, budget and financial information to prepare summaries for use by higher-graded analysts. NOTE: THIS INFORMATION MUST BE SUPPORTED IN YOUR RESUME TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series 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 In lieu of specialized experience, you may qualify with the following education or combination of both education and experience: GS-09 Successful completion of a master's or equivalent graduate degree OR Successful completion of two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a master's degree OR Possession of an LL.B. or J.D. that is related to this position being filled. https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/students/federal-occupations-by-college-major/ OR A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience GS-07 Successful completion of 1 full year of graduate level education OR Superior academic achievement OR A combination of experience and graduate education as described above that equates to one year of experience A transcript must be submitted with your application if qualifying using education. See Required Documents for additional information. Additional Information This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. Vacancies filled from this announcement may be filled at any grade level listed. If selected below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management. Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed. 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 option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. 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: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf 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: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transition/ 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. 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.