Budget Analyst

The position is in Fiscal Service at the Kansas City VA Medical Center (VAMC), Kansas City, Missouri, The position serves as a Budget Analyst responsible for providing budget formulation, execution monitoring, analysis, and related financial support functions for assigned medical center operations and serviced activities.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/09/2026.

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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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 and/or education as described below:

• You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: performs recurring budget administration and analytical support duties that facilitate more complex review and analysis functions conducted by the supervisor and higher-graded coworkers. Assists in budget formulation, budget execution, monitoring obligations and expenditures, reconciling discrepancies, preparing preliminary estimates, and recommending corrective adjustments for assigned accounts and activities. Gathers, extracts, reviews, verifies, and consolidates a variety of narrative information and statistical data needed in the formulation and presentation of budget requests. Cross-checks the accuracy of budget and program data in related budgetary forms, schedules, and reports. Identifies inconsistencies, researches causes of variances, and recommends corrections to totals, subtotals, object classes, or related entries. Compares current estimates of funding needs by line item or object class with prior year expenditures and analyzes significant changes, trends, or unusual variances requiring management review. OR,
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR,
• Combination: Combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used to meet total qualification requirements for the grade levels specified and may be computed by first determining your total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; then determining your education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; and then adding the two percentages. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify for that grade level. Only graduate education beyond a master's degree will qualify toward GS-11. Example: An applicant has 9 months of specialized experience equivalent to GS-9 and 2 1/2 years of creditable graduate level education in music. The applicant meets 75 percent of the required experience and 50 percent of the required education, i.e., the applicant has 1/2 year of graduate study beyond that required for GS-9. Therefore, the applicant exceeds the total requirement and is qualified for the position. (The applicant's first 2 years of graduate study (master's degree) are not qualifying for GS-11.)

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Accountability
• Arithmetic/Mathematical Reasoning
• Attention to Detail
• Budget Administration
• Critical Thinking
• Customer Service
• Decision Making
• Financial Management
• Flexibility
• Integrity/Honesty
• Interpersonal Skills
• Leadership
• Learning
• Principles of Finance
• Reasoning
• Self-Management
• Stress Tolerance
• Teamwork

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: Work is sedentary, being performed for the most part while seated comfortably at a desk or table. A moderate amount of standing and walking is required when attending meetings and conferences, and in visiting other offices and buildings throughout the installation.

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/.

Responsibilities:

• Gathers, extracts, reviews, verifies, and consolidates a variety of narrative information and statistical data needed in the formulation and presentation of budget requests (e.g., estimates of the funding needs of subordinate organizational components).
• Cross-checks the accuracy of budget and program data in related budgetary forms, schedules, and reports. Identifies inconsistencies, researches causes of variances, and recommends corrections to totals, subtotals, object classes, or related entries.
• Compares current estimates of funding needs by line item or object class with prior year expenditures and analyzes significant changes, trends, or unusual variances requiring management review.
• Researches guides to extract legal, regulatory, program, and budgetary information for use by supervisor or higher-graded analysts. Prepares summaries of narrative, quantitative, and statistical data in budget forms, schedules, and reports.
• Prepares preliminary budget estimates and assists in projecting funding requirements for assigned activities based on historical spending patterns, anticipated workload, and known program changes.
• Receives, reviews, and recommends approval, disapproval, or modification of budget execution requests based on availability of funds, completeness, regulatory compliance, and priority of need.
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: 0800am-4:30pm, Monday thru Friday
Telework: ADHOC only
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD04062A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Salary : $75,897