Budget Analyst

Budget Analyst

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Dallas, Texas

Salary Range: $67100 - $87235 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is organizationally located at the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) in the Research and Development (R&D) Service, at VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS), in Dallas, Texas. VANTHCS has a growing Research and Development Program.

Major Duties:

• Duties include but are not limited to: Develops procedural instructions/report formats for budget submissions. Provides guidance to investigators and staff. Uses this data to project annual salary cost for each investigator's staff, the animal program and common resource facilities. Researches, summarize, and compiles data involving obligation, expenses, and object class/line-item information. Analyzes budget requests for conformance to Federal and regulatory guidance, conduct cost benefit analysis, determine program trade-offs, and explore alternative methods of funding (NIH, on-profit, medical appropriations) Coordinates with the Dallas VA Research Corporation (DVARC) as well as other affiliate universities and other Federal partners NIH, DoD regarding interagency agreements and contracts for reimbursements and transactions involving research projects and staff. Monitors the Federal appropriations process for legislation policy changes that may impact VA research appropriation. Review, manage, certify, and reconcile reimbursement requests from affiliates and vendors. Makes formal presentations of the budgets to Research leadership and Investigators. Prepares justifications to VA-ORD/Central Office to defend estimates and projections, answer specific questions, and provide clarification. Works with Central Office and the National Cooperative Study Coordinating Center personnel for budget request and supplementation for ongoing VA Cooperative Studies Programs at VANTHCS. Participates in the Service strategic planning process. Assists in the development, evaluation, and modification of the organizational structure and systems to achieve strategic and program goals. Responsible for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data relevant to assigned research funded programs and activities. Uses scenario planning to determine how fluctuations in funding levels will impact current and future financial commitments. Prepares reports, charts, statistical analysis, and briefings for Central Office, Fiscal, R&D ACOS, AOand Investigators. Authorizes Fiscal Service to make disbursements of Research Funds. Receives approved fund targets for assigned account(s). Allocates funds to individual investigator accounts based on an analysis of activity budget estimates, historical expenditures, projected workload, and approved funding. Reviews and validates obligations, expenditures, reimbursable requests for allotments, etc. by examining accounting records, through continuing dialogue with VA-ORD, facility officials, Investigators, and their staffs, and by reviewing financial documents. Maintains an automated accounting system showing budget projections, FTEE levels, and data by individual research appropriation, individual research project, and records of all purchases and transfers. Prepares cost estimates for Intergovernmental Personnel Agreements (IPA's) Computes the rates of receipt, obligation, and expenditure of funds. Prepares a variety of reports covering the status of funds and advises Investigators and other management officials on the availability of funds. Evaluates the effect of cost and program changes on the budget execution process. Analyzes productivity, workload, and program accomplishments. Recommends the transfer of funds between Research Appropriations (Biomedical and Clinical, Health Services, Rehabilitation and Cooperative Studies) and line-item accounts under the same budget account. Identifies the need for reprogramming between budget accounts and Fund Control Points and adjusts funding targets as needed. Participates in the justification and prioritization of unfinanced requirements. Works with investigators and their departmental administrators at the affiliated universities. Participates in the monitoring of year-end closing to ensure proper and full use of provided funds, with no anti-deficiency violation. Monitors carryover amount in accordance with appropriate allowances, per Federal Regulations. Maintains automated budget/financial systems. Prepares and distributes monthly statements for approximately 40 individual research accounts, discuss budget statements and projections with investigators, to answer their questions or make budget adjustments when necessary. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD09376O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/09/2026. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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. Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include but are not limited to: Experience in budgeting, execution, and analysis within a federal government agency, including utilizing federal financial management systems and software. Proficient in Microsoft Suite and applications. Experience with VISTA. Familiarity with the VA procurement process. OR Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must possess a master's or equivalent graduate degree; or, 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such degree; or, LL.B. or J.D., if related. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED). OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of specialized experience and education beyond a master's or equivalent graduate degree; or, 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such degree; or, LL.B. or J.D., if related. (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED) . You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: 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/.

How to Apply: Please read the entire announcement and all the instructions before you begin an application. To apply for this position, you must complete the initial online application, to include the initial online questionnaire and submission of the required documentation specified in the How to Apply and Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration. To preview the application questionnaire, click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12893374. The application process is as follows: To begin, click Apply Online to create a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents. Answer the questions presented in the application and attach all necessary supporting documentation. Click the Submit Application button prior to 11:59 PM (ET) on the announcement closing date, 03/09/2026. If you are required to complete any USA Hire Assessments, you will be notified after submitting your application. The notification will be provided in your application submission screen and via email. The notification will include your unique assessment access link to the USA Hire system and the completion deadline. Additionally, in USAJOBS you can click "Track this application" to return to your assessment completion notice. Access USA Hire using your unique assessment link. Access is granted through your USAJOBS login credentials. Review all instructions prior to beginning your assessments. You will have the opportunity to request a testing accommodation before beginning the assessments should you have a disability covered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended. Set aside at least 3 hours to take the USA Hire Assessments; however, most applicants complete the assessments in less time. If you need to stop the assessments and continue later, you can re-use your unique assessment link. NOTE: Your responses to the USA Hire Assessments will be reused for one year (in most cases) from the date you complete an assessment. If future applications you submit require completion of the same assessments, your responses will be automatically reused. Visit the USA Hire Applicant Resource Center for practice assessments and assessment preparation resources at https://support-usahire.opm.gov/hc/en-us. To update your application, including supporting documentation: During the announcement open period, return to your USAJOBS account, find your application record, and click Edit my application. This option will no longer be available once the announcement has closed. To view the announcement status or your application status: https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to. Your application status page is where you can view your application status, USA Hire assessment completion status, and review your notifications sent by the hiring agency regarding your application. Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan. Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position. USAJOBS will not allow you to upload or build resumes longer than two pages, and you will need to update the resumes in your profile before applying for a job. Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying. VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed. Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement. Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started. Helpful Hints for Creating a Two-Page Resume: Prioritize most relevant and recent experience Use concise, results focused language Align language from the job announcement Focus on demonstrating skills and competencies Remove outdated or unrelated experience Use the USAJOBS resume builder Additional guidance on this new requirement and resume building tools can be found at https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit

Application Deadline: 2026-03-09