Supervisor Budget Analyst

Veterans Health Administration - Department of Veterans Affairs

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/22/2024. 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 by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. 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 as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Ability to provide day to day oversight to budget, payroll, and administrative duties involved in the Budget and Payroll Sections of Fiscal Service; Ability to direct work to be accomplished by subordinates, assigns work, evaluates the performance, gives advice, counsel, instruction and career planning to subordinates; Ensures development of local policies for use by operating officials in preparing budget estimates for their services, which are critical to the success of the mission; Ensures distribution of all funds from the Transfer of Disbursing Authorities(TDA’s) from VACO to fund control points, analyzing actual expenditures as compared to the plan, and making projections to indicate needed adjustments in the budget plan; Ensures all pricing groups, complexity levels, and the unique patient data of the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA} 14 Model, which is the primary methodology that VHA uses to distribute a significant portion of the Medical Care operating budget to the Medical Center. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and Management Analytical Reasoning Budget Administration Control of Funds Customer Service (Clerical/Technical) Financial Management Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; 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. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: This is primarily a sedentary position, but the work requires some walking, bending, stooping and carrying of light objects such as manuals, documents, etc. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management’s website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
The Supervisory Budget Analyst is a key official in providing financial services to the large, complex ECHCS VA. The incumbent assists in the fund maintenance programs, appropriateness of expenditures, financial management aspects for collection of funds and ensuring the fiscal integrity of all financial records at the medical center. Has oversight of Budget and Payroll within Fiscal and oversees an annual budget in excess of 1B, along with payroll processing of over 3700 employees.

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