Financial Budget Analyst

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (aka Plans and Budget Officer). Key Responsibilities of the Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer will include:

• Provide strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the Office activities.

• Use client input to draft, formulate, and justify budget build.

• Develop and maintain spend plans for all of the Office.

• 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 assists 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.

• Draft initial 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 Directorates Resource Management Team as required; attends resource meetings.

• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

• Must possess and be able to maintain TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Knowledge of strategic planning and resource management processes
• Knowledge of program planning and execution processes
• Knowledge of business resource planning practices and cost analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timeliness of the data
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices
• Knowledge of program risk assessment principles and processes
• Ability to apply analytic and diagnostic techniques and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate, and recommend to managers substantive solutions to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues
• Demonstrate professional competence as both a plans and budget officer.
• 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 long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborate in strategic planning for future years. Ability to draft budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring 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.
• Exhibit broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Exhibit strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear, concise requests for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrate 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.

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.