Plans and Budget Officer

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Markon’s partner company is seeking a Plans and Budget Officer to support our Intelligence Customer by providing expert resource management to the PMO portfolio. 

 

Responsibilities may include:

• Provide strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the CLOUDWork activities 
• Support Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build
• Develop and maintain spend plans
• Reconcile spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommend options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources
• Stay current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assist in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with the guidance
• Assist personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible
• Prepare supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and re-programming
• Assist with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsors' program build.
• Perform short- and long-term financial trend analyses for the Office
• Prepare briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities
• Coordinate and respond to budget requirements and budget taskings
• Collaborate with Directorate's Resource Management Team as required; attend resource meetings
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

Requirements:

• Must have an active/current TS/SCI with FS Polygraph
• Ability to run reports in Cognos, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, P6 to include tracking assessing of execution constantly
• Exhibit 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
• Ability to develop and implement long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborate in strategic planning for future years
• Ability to prepare budget exercise submissions; assimilate information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible and executable
• Experience ensuring program execution is proceeding within available resources constraints and remain consistent with goals.
• Experience proposing and implementing resource realignment as required or in response to unplanned situations.
• Broad comprehension of relevant statues, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution process.
• Ability to construct and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity. 
• Exhibit strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear, concise request for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrate excellent oral communication skills
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.

Desired Skills

• Awareness of Sponsors' programs, policies and systems
• Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment

USD $160,000.00 - USD $180,000.00 /Yr.

The Markon pay range for this position is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.