Program Analyst

Program Analyst

Requirements

• Experience providing inputs and analysis to Cost, Data and Risk.
• Experience assisting APMs and Budget/Finance teams with the creation of FY budgets, Spend Plans, and forecasting reports.
• Working knowledge and experience with General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) database
• Working knowledge of and experience preparing annual Program Objective Memorandum (POM) resourcing brief.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Proficiency
• Excellent interpersonal skills, proven verbal and written communications, and the ability to work on multi-functional teams in a fast-paced development environment
• Ability to self-start and multi-task in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple tasks with minimal supervision
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills
• Active Secret clearance
• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelors Degree; 4 additional years of direct related experience will substitute for a Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Provide program analyst support to include creating and managing FY budgets and spend plans, forecasting of resource requirements for manpower, contracts, travel/training, equipment, supplies, and funds.
• Retrieve status of funds (SOF) reports in GFEBS and work directly with customer budget analysts and directors/commanders to request reimbursement and disbursement status to assure actual expenditures do not exceed authorized amounts.
• Prepare studies and/or analysis for further identification of funding requirements or for presentation of funds status.
• Perform management studies and reviews pertaining to issues involving mission, organization, functions, and productivity management.
• Interpret findings for studies having significant impacts and for development of constructive recommendations for solving management problems regarding all funding for prior and current year funding requirements.
• Reassess and refine costs for complex missions on an ongoing basis, incorporating actual cost data as it becomes available.
• Analyze and evaluate cost estimates of projects for all Fiscal Year (FY) Functional Support Agreement (FSA) financial data requirements to ensure compliance with ASA (ALT), PEO, and PM policies.
• Regularly follow-up with all contracts point of contacts (POC) regarding monthly disbursement plans versus actuals reported to the PEO monthly.
• Review all funding execution actions.
• Prepare briefings, cost analysis documents, Army Strategic Portfolio Analysis & Review (SPAR), SPAR Charts, P&R forms, Budget, Requirements, and Program (BRP) documents, Spruill charts, cash flow, and congressional impact statements for the Integration Division programs.
• Develop briefings, and Issue Sheets/Impact Statements/Reclamas/Information Papers.
• Coordinate and develop Acquisition Strategy Reports, Budget Exhibits, Budget Execution and Planning, Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Weapon System Reviews, and Programmatic Risk Reviews.
• Coordinate with all internal and external stakeholders to ensure all actions occur timely, accurately, and in line with the plan.
• Develop budget implementation plans, define timelines, execute project activities and coordinate with internal and external product budget teams to ensure proper funds execution.
• Update, track, and maintain documentation for all budgetary actions and financial data to ensure compliance with audit procedures. This includes Budgetary documentation such as Requests for Funds (R4F), DD Form 448 (Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR), DD Form 448-2 (MIPR Acceptance), AMC Form 1095G (PWD), DD Form 7600 (Functional Support Agreement (FSA), and Contract Modifications.
• Assist with the creation of Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE), review and track funding MODs, respond to customer budgetary questions where applicable.
• Provide budget input to PL EA and Assistant Program Managers (APM) for In-Progress Reviews (IPRs), Programs of Record (PoR), Spend Plans, Program Management Reviews (PMR), etc.
• Monitor and provide contractual briefings to Government leadership on various administrative statuses, including, current and cancelled funding appropriations, Burn Data analysis information, reconciliations, and work with the Contractor to recognize where underruns exist to allow for a prompt de-obligation of excess funds to expedite contract closeout functions.
• Provide analysis of data for Rough Orders of Magnitude (ROM).
• Process requests for funding requests submitted within PL EA and PM EW&C.
• Consistently review latest guidance to ensure acquisitions comply with FAR, DFARS, AFARS, and Information Assurance regulations, policies, and requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Army Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFARS).
• Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
• Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).
• US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP) certification.
• US Army Project Management Resource Tools (PMRT).
• US Army Procurement Portfolio Management Tool (PPMT).
• US Army Comprehensive Cost and Requirement (CCaR).
• US Army P&R Forms Application; Procurement and RDTE (P&R) Forms.
• HQ Department of the Army Task Management Tool (TMT).
• GFEBS – Sensitive Activities (GFEBS-SA)
• Fiscal Law Certificate of completion within the last two years.
• DoD Financial Management certification.
• DAWIA Business Financial Management.