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Budget Analyst
Category: Finance
Main location: United States, Alabama, Huntsville
Position ID:J0726-1867
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description:
CGI is seeking a dynamic individual to work as a Budget Analyst serving NASA clients at Marshall Space Flight Center. Working in a collaborative office environment, the Budget Analyst will work with various financial software systems to provide reports and analysis.
This position is located in Huntsville, Al.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
. Serves as an analyst to systematically integrate business, cost estimating and financial management processes aiding to ensure the efficient stewardship of public funds.
. Supports the formulation of strategic financial plans, prepares cost estimates, and correlates financing requirements into executable budgets.
. Possesses thorough knowledge of the allocation, execution, and administration of approved budgets.
. Assesses products and procedures for compliance with Government standards, accounting principles, internal controls, and multi tiered system application standards.
. Must be able to grasp interrelationships between financial management requirements and automated solutions, considering the current system environment and the potential integration of added systems concurrently or later.
. Ensures that tasks are completed in the time frame specified by the client and assists in the preparation of milestone status reports and presentations for
colleagues, subordinates, management, and end user representatives.
. Familiar with activity based costing, business case analysis and outsourcing requirements.
. Specialized experience includes assisting in large scale budget formulation, development, and execution activities, as well as integration of such activities, across many Center organizations in support of Agency processes.
. Responsible for meeting constantly changing deadlines and accepts new assignments with varying requirements and delivers to a high level of completeness and accuracy.
. Serves as a mentor and resource for junior contractor budget analysts assisting with their development.
. May leverage expertise to support multiple organizations and/or Centers.
. Proficient in the accounting systems and processes of the Centers supported.
• Manage financials for 4 projects within the Office of Data Science and Informatics (ODSI). These projects include VEDA, CSDA, GHRC, and OCSDO Comms.
• On a monthly and quarterly basis, generate high level financial data that PI/PMs can use to report to HQ. These reports can vary based on the project, but they often include providing variance explanations, funding balances, and "anticipated" obligation/cost estimates.
• Prepare phasing/spend plans for each project. This includes PPBE and an annual phasing plan used for monthly reporting. The annual phasing plan is monitored and updated as needed throughout the year.
• Report project status to ST02 at the FMR. This includes reporting on overall project activity, variances from the phasing plan, current or future issues/risks, prior year fund status, uncosted, and other topics as needed.
• Monitor and track funding status on the UAH & USRA Cooperative Agreements.
• Work with the ODSI budget analyst team to develop "trackers" that allow the group to monitor funding status for each contract and keep a detailed funding history.
• Provide funding information across multiple WBS lines for each project's specific funding vehicles.
• Provide expertise and correction plans for PMs as it relates to fundings shortages (or overages).
• Generate PRs for new awards, incremental funding, and/or contract modifications.
• Maintain awareness and information related to contract ceilings and periods of performance for managed projects.
• Provide each project's specific PM with a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly (PMs preference) financial status and ensure they are aware of any potential issues or funding concerns.
• Complete ad-hoc reports and actions that may come from individual projects, ODSI management, ST, or RS.
• Daily activity:
o ***Collaborate and coordinate with PMs, PIs, contracting officers, and other budget analyst across MSFC to resolve any ongoing or potential financial issues.
o ***Develop and maintain ODSI's Power BI dashboard. This includes refreshing actuals, making modifications to the data model & visuals as needed, and developing new visuals & reports as needed.
o ***Maintain a resource log that tracks budget requested, funding received, initiated funds, and actuals at the lowest level possible. This tool requires all transactions to be logged, and a detailed comment associated with each transaction
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
High School Diploma and 8 years of relevant experience
or
Bachelors Degree and 6 years of related experience
Must be US Citizen and be eligible to pass a background check
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
BA/BS in finance, accounting, or business administration.
Previous experience with NASA or other government experience
. Experience with Power BI including but not limited to
o Refreshing/updating data sources
o Maintaining and editing reports
o Developing new reports and visuals
. Experience managing resource logs that track Budget Requests, Funds Received, and Actuals
. Experience Developing financial reports for project managers
. Experience with phasing plans
. Experience tracking status of funds in real time
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $58,000.00 $123,800.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
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Skills:

• Cost analysis
• MS Outlook
• MS Power Platform
• MS Teams
• Administration & Finance (Fed)

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