The United States Space Force (USSF) at Los Angeles Air Force Base is searching for a Budget Analyst to support SSC/FMA (NH-0560-03, GS-12/13 Equivalent).

Description:
Positions are available in the 0560 (Budget Analyst) series. Applicants will be considered for multiple openings across SSC/FMA. This announcement is open to all qualified candidates, including military spouses. Please feel free to forward this opportunity to any interested and qualified individuals. Candidates must demonstrate relevant credentials and experience in their resumes to be considered.

Ideal Candidate:
Duties
- Plan, organize, and direct financial activities ensuring compliance with law, regulation, and customer needs.
- Provide analysis and decision support for budget formulation, justification, and execution.
- Interpret and assess the impact of Congressional legislation on budgets.
- Implement financial policies and ensure fiscal law compliance.
- Support program acquisition and provide recommendations for cost-effective resource allocation.
- Manage assigned accounts and brief senior leadership.

Qualifications
- Specialized experience in financial management, budget formulation, execution, or analysis.
- Knowledge of budgetary methods, practices, policies, and systems (e.g., CCaR, CRIS, DTIMS, WAWF).
- Strong analytical skills and ability to evaluate program effectiveness.
- Effective written and verbal communication, including senior-level briefings.



Key Responsibilities:
1. Knowledge of the policies, principles, concepts, guidance, procedures, techniques, and methodologies pertaining to budget formulation and financial management.
2. Knowledge of the mission, roles, functions, organizational structures, and operation of DoD and Air Force organizations pertaining to budget formulation and financial management to provide guidance to subordinate units.
3. Knowledge of revolving funds and annual and multiple-year appropriations; their characteristics, uses, applications, and data structures.
4. Knowledge of the DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process and its products, terminology, and guidance documents, including DoD budget and financial management regulations, OMB Circulars, and Congressional legislation.
5. Ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, clearly, concisely, and with technical accuracy.
6. Ability to plan, organize, mentor, motivate, and direct subordinate teammates in the use of automated data processing concepts, systems capabilities, and economic usages to effectively complete assignments.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• May be required to handle and safeguard sensitive and/or classified information in accordance with regulations to reduce potential compromise.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "unscheduled telework".
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignments.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• PCS /relocation funding is authorized.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): Approximately 15 days per year.
• Employee must within 30-days of assuming this position and by 31 October annually thereafter, file an OGE-450, “Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.
• This is a Financial Management Level (1, 2, or 3) Certified position IAW the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012, Public Law 112-81, Subtitle F-Financial Management, Section 1599d.
• This position is designated a CRITICAL APDP position

Qualifications

The 0560 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.

Resume:You must submit a resume that may NOT exceed two pages, and the font size should not be smaller than 10 pts. You will not be considered for this vacancy if your resume exceeds two pages or is illegible/unreadable. Do NOT include photographs, inappropriate material, inappropriate content, nor personal information such as age, gender, religion, social security number, etc., on your resume. If the resume you submit contains such information you will not be considered for this vacancy. Your resume must provide:

1. Personal information - your full name, email and mailing addresses, phone number
2. Education information - the name of the school and the dates you attended
3. Work experience - paid and unpaid work with the following information:
   • Job title
   • Detailed duties and accomplishments
   • Employer's name and address
   • Supervisor's name and phone number
   • Starting and ending dates (If actual dates are not known, provide your best-estimated timeframes.)
   • Hours per week
   • Salary, if applicable
4. Other qualifications - skills, certifications/licenses, honors, awards, special accomplishments, and job-related training courses

College Transcripts (if applicable): Please see the Education section of this announcement for detailed information about transcripts.

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