PROGRAM ANALYST

Summary

You will serve as a PROGRAM ANALYST in the UNMANNED & THEATER UNDERSEA WARFARE SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT, BUSINESS & PLANNING OFFICE of NAVUNSEAWARCENDIV KEYPORT WA.

Duties

• You will serve as the primary point of contact for financial matters on assigned projects, providing information and analytical advice to Customer Advocates and management on fund expenditures, tasking, monitoring, and final billing actions.
• You will provide financial leadership for ongoing and emergent projects, gathering and analyzing data on workload execution, production status, fund expenditures, and manpower across multiple execution areas.
• You will analyze program and system applications for improvement, applying analytical methods and techniques to develop or troubleshoot procedures and promote maximum project efficiency and economy.
• You will provide current-year guidance and mentoring to Customer Advocates, department managers, employees, and project managers on stabilized banded labor rates, service cost center rates, and out-year planning.
• You will act as the Comptroller Department liaison for one or more Customer Advocates, divisions, or branches and provide oversight of financial operations to ensure fiscal control and proper execution of funds.
• You will perform long-range planning activities using the approved workload planning process and system for assigned projects, generating reports and conducting complex studies and analyses to solve problems, identify trends, and document conditions.
• You will conduct detailed analyses of project performance, brief managers on findings, and make recommendations for financial improvement and corrective actions.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 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 working with a financial team, including in the Department of the Navy or a similar federal financial environment, involving financial reporting, financial analysis, tracking financial health and metrics, ensuring financial accuracy, and/or applying financial policy. Ability to work collaboratively with others on a team and provide financial analysis and advice to funds holders, technical project managers, and customer advocates. Providing analytical and evaluative advice on direct, overhead, service cost center, and capital investment fund expenditures, including tasking and allocation of funding, monitoring execution of funds at a macro level, and initiating or recommending final billing actions on completed projects. Gathering and analyzing data on workload execution, production status, projections of fund expenditures, manpower, and other aspects of the execution phase for ongoing or emergent projects. Applying knowledge of financial management principles, Defense Working Capital Fund accounting procedures, concepts, methodology, reporting, and cost control, as well as regulations, principles, practices, and methods of budget execution, formulation, and review. Conducting detailed analyses of project or program performance, identifying issues, and making recommendations for financial improvement, efficiency, and economy. Collaborating across technical project managers, customer advocates, and with external sponsor financial personnel to support fund management, workload forecasting, and proper execution of funds. Performing long-range planning activities and generating analytical reports or studies related to workload planning for assigned projects. 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.