Plans and Budget Officer

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Markon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. This job posting will remain open until the position is filled.

 

Benefits Offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Training and Tuition Assistance, Paid Time Off, and Holidays

 

Markon is seeking a Plans and Budget Officer to support an intellignece Intelligence Customer

 

• Provides strategic and programmatic plans and budget support the Groups responsible for a high-visibility Special Access Program.
• Supports the Groups 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 all Customer and Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assists staff in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses.
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and supports programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget-related taskings.
• Collaborates with Resource Management as required; attends/supports resource meetings.
• Continually interfaces with executive-level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

• Active TS/SCI with full scope polygraph.
• Bachelors degree and att least 15 YOE in a budget/finance role.
• 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 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.

USD $160,000.00 - USD $185,000.00 /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.