Financial Budget Analyst

Job description

ROLE

We need an experienced Budget Analyst to work closely with a federally funded non-profit. This is a full-time opportunity. We can offer job security and stability, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

· Advise and assist on budgetary and financial strategy, planning, programming, and execution

· Plan, develop, and help implement short- to long-range budgetary and financial policies

· Help managers plan, formulate, justify, justify, enact, and execute budgets

· Help managers plan and achieve management objectives within funding constraints

· Help managers understand and adapt to changes, deadlines, gaps, conflicts, etc.

· Analyze financial and budgetary relationships among national-level programs

· Propose recommendations for financial and/or budgetary actions

· Propose innovative solutions to complex budgetary and financial problems

· Help improve costs controls to optimize obligation and expenditure of funds

· Apply knowledge of relevant principles, procedures, methods, and concepts

· Apply knowledge of federal budgeting process

· Apply knowledge of OMB and U.S. Treasury Department regulations, directions, and policies

· Review and coordinate accounting records

· Work with both appropriate and non-appropriated funds

· Prepare apportionments, allocations, and operating budgets

· Organize, analyze, and program fund requests in compliance with standards

· Comply with expenditure of restricted donation funds

· Prepare, analyze, and/or brief financial reports and relevant findings

· Analyze a broad profile of historical program statistics and financial data

· Analyze and present findings on relevant Executive Orders, federal policy, congressional legislation, etc.

· Monitor, track, and report on program obligations and funding data

· Ensure that program funding data is accurately represented within financial systems

· Conduct annual year-end closing activities and reconcile data with accounting records

· Use consolidated year-end data sets to prepare an accurate overview of the organization's financial status

· Recommend whether leadership should approve, disapprove, or modify funding requests and justifications

· Maintain accounting records to prevent an over-obligation scenario

· Analyze funds to identify possible trends that may result in a surplus or shortage of funds

· Forecast to adjust current and future budget estimates if obligations and/or expenditures are revised

BACKGROUND

· Progressive and relevant experience in…

EDUCATION

· Bachelor's degree

· Preference for master's degree

· Preference for CPA

JOB LOCATION

· 100% telework

· Washington D.C. metropolitan area

West 4th Strategy is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, age, marital status, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy, political affiliation, military or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by federal or state law.

Other Considerations: This position is W-2 only; no Corp-to-Corp or 1099 candidates. Relocation will not be offered. Selected applicants will be subject to a background investigation. Individual's primary workstation is located in an office area. The noise level in this environment is low to moderate. Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 80% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC, copier, fax, telephone, cell phone, etc. Occasionally required to reach overhead, bend, and lift objects of up to 10 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 80% of the time.