Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nations most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individual to perform in the role of Plans and Budget Officer. Responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Building the program's 5-year budget and annual operating budget as part of the budget formulation process and cycle.
• Provide strategic/programmatic guidance related to budget, finance, resources, cost recovery, and portfolio management.
• Assist or lead efforts related to budgetary submissions (IPOM, IPBS, CBJB), and respond to data calls and actions from Sponsor Agency and external stakeholder.
• Supports the office in formulating, justifying, and defending budget build.
• Develops and maintains spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under-utilization of resources.
• Stays current with all Customer and Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assists staff in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and re-programming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses by developing and implementing tools for to accurately capture, forecast and recover sub-program costs where necessary.
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and supports programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget-related taskings.
• Collaborates with Resource Management as required; attends/supports resource meetings.
• Continually interfaces with executive-level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.
• Support the current year execution and administration of budgets, collaborating with Sponsor Agency finance and resource teams, ODNI & IC partner organizations, and Sponsor's Leadership where necessary.
• Assist with developing and implementing tools to accurately capture, forecast, and recover sub program costs as needed.
• Support the Sponsor Organization with financial modeling techniques to obtain financial savings in support of Sponsor mission and strategic direction.

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• A degree (or equivalent experience) in Finance, Financial Analysis, Business, Information Systems, Social Sciences, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer.
• Exhibits full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions.
• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years.
• Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable.
• Ensures program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposes and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management.
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear concise requests for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.
• BS 12-15, MS 10-13, PhD 8-10 years of experience.

Desired Skills

• Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment.
• Awareness of Sponsors' programs, policies, and systems.

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.