Company Description

The Holston Group (HG) Inc. is SBA 8(a) Certified, Economically Disadvantage Woman Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) with over 15 years of extensive experience in program management, business process engineering, acquisition, financial operations, and cyber capabilities. We are experts at building trusting and long-lasting partnerships, recruiting highly qualified personnel capable of providing quality deliverables and meeting deadlines across several competencies. HG understands customer challenges and maintains close working relationships with our customers to quickly understand their needs while delivering optimal solutions. 

Job Description:

The Senior Budget Analyst will provide expertise for the application of budgetary laws, regulations/instructions, policies, methods, and techniques to support USCYBERCOM. The Senior Budget Analyst will conduct the following activities to assist USCYBERCOM with maintaining, tracking, reporting financial information, and conducting cost-estimating efforts as well as assist with the formulation, development, and execution of USCYBERCOM's budgets. 

• Assist with the formulation, development, and execution of budgets, financial plans, and multi-year programs required to properly fund and meet program resource requirements.
• Assist in updating Command/DoD databases, coordinating the write-ups for programs and projects with appropriate personnel, gathering information for over-guidance requests, and consolidating all information for the responsible Portfolios.
• Prepared and managed Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs) by use of DEAMS and/or Defense Agency Initiative (DAI) Budget System. 
• Interface and coordinate with other financial organizations to provide budgetary.
• Assist in the preparation and delivery of budgetary briefings to management and other reviewers.
• Assist in the preparation of reports and charts to present budget analysis for management review.
• Assist with responses to financial queries, conducting outlay, and obligation analysis.
• Assist in the tracking and reporting of execution performance to include attending customer and program/project status review meetings.
• Assist the Government with responding to ad-hoc command programs and operations, financial management, and budget queries.
• Prepare, track, and monitor budgets in support of managing funds for requisitions, purchase orders, and simplified acquisitions, to ensure timely execution.
• Develop and refine innovative methods, tools, and criteria to increase the effectiveness of fiscal plans and policy for Command program plans, goals, and objectives.
• Conduct data collection to assist in financial records building and coordinate with the USCYBERCOM financial planning team for the build out of records within the Comprehensive Cost and Requirement system (CCaRs).
• Conduct cost estimating and analysis with appropriate application of analytical methods and techniques, such as cost-benefit analysis, Zero Base Budgeting (ZBB), amortization, depreciation, prorating revenues and costs among customer, planning-programming- budgeting, Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT), and management by objectives, to predict or assess the effects of budgetary and/or program changes and to fully evaluate the significance of conflicting program and budget data.

Qualifications

• Candidate must possess a current Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS//SCI) level clearance with CI polygraph.
• Master's degree required plus 10 years of experience in relevant experience. (In lieu of a Master’s degree, a Bachelor’s degree with an additional 2 years of experience in performing requirements for a total of 12 years; or HS diploma/Associate's degree with an additional 6 years of experience in performing requirements for a total of 16 years.)
• Minimum of ten years of experience in the preparation of reports that reflect programs/project status in areas of cost, schedule, and performance.
• Five years’ experience in budgeting and/or budgeting analysis within DoD and/or Government organizations.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite products.
• Experience working in a complex cyberspace operation and/or multi-stakeholder environment (preferred).
• Minimum of five years of experience working in the PPBE process.
• Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) or Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) Certifications 
  

Additional Information 

The Holston Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. US Citizenship is required as a result of the parameters set for the Federal Government contract.