Budget Analyst

About the role

This Budget Analyst position is within the Hospital and Specialty Medicine Business office at VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. The incumbent, under general guidance of the business manager, performs routine budget administration functions in the formulation, execution, and review of assigned positions of the appropriated budget of assigned service lines.

Responsibilities

• Captures and summarizes data concerning personnel salaries and expenses, other elements of resources needed for budget estimates.
• Determines the costs/benefits of various courses of action or operational methods.
• Maintains historical service line budget data and elements of resource usage to determine trends in expenditures and proposes budget adjustments.
• Coordinates and assists in the development, preparation, and justification of annual funding needs and revises the annual operating budget for a large Service Line.
• Researches and compiles data concerning personnel salaries and expenses, other elements of resources needed for budget estimates.
• Determines the costs/benefits of various courses of action or operational methods.
• Maintains historical service line budget data and elements of resource usage to determine trends in expenditures and proposes budget adjustments.
• Provides information to VA Puget Sound Fiscal personnel that may be called upon to provide background information and/or expert testimony to defend operations and programs.
• Executes the budget in conformance with Puget Sound Health Care System and VA guidance, priorities, and limitations.
• Reviews requests for additional funds and unfinanced requirements to ensure consistency, accuracy, and adherence to policy and priorities.
• Prepares budget execution reports, status of funds, actual/planned performance, deviation analysis, current trends, future projections, and other reports as needed.
• Ensures obligations incurred and resulting expenditures of funds are in accordance with existing laws and regulations.
• Serves as a fund Control Point Official with delegated authority to authorize obligation of funds, to establish and maintain administrative control of such funds, and to impose restrictions on the use of funds to prevent over obligation.
• Reviews current and prior year transactions and reports to ensure all obligations and expenditures are properly documented and recorded.
• Recommends reallocation of funds between elements of resource and fund control point accounts to cover increases in obligation/expenditures within established funding limits.
• Serves as the Hospital and Specialty Medical Services Government Procurement Card Agency Program Coordinator.
• Coordinates with Fiscal service the assignment of a control point clerk and control point officer for each fund control point.
• May be assigned to a variety of special projects, either independently or in concert with other Hospital and Specialty Medical Services or Medical Center Staff.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement - 07/31/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. The grade may have been in any occupation - but must have been held in the Federal service. For a GS-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year - it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade - as required by the announcement. In this instance - you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS 7 that has provided you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: preparing budget estimates, justifications and cost transfers; participating in the contracting process; reviewing cost records and furnishing historical cost data; maintaining records in electronic data base for preparation of charts/graphs and projected expenditures; interpreting and applying budget and finance regulations, procedures and processes; analyzing and comparing line item obligations and expenditures in approved operating budgets; determining if obligations, expenditures, and requested allotments are within funding limitations in an approved budget; knowledge of the budgetary and financial relationship of the clinical and administrative operations.
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B or J.D in a related field of the position to be filled. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. Education cannot be credited without documentation. TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.
• Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience as described above and successfully completed graduate level education (in excess of the first year or 18 semester hours). The total combination must equal 100%. Education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. Education cannot be credited without documentation. TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.

Skills

The work is sedentary. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work, however, there may be some walking, standing, bending, and carrying of light items like papers or books. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Monday-Friday - 8:00am - 4:30pm

Other Information

• Telework: This position may be authorized for telework on an as needed (ad hoc) basis - determined by the needs of the service.
• Virtual: This is not a virtual or remote position.
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
• Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized