Department of Veterans Affairs

Budget Analyst

Washington, District of Columbia Full time

Budget Analyst

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia

Salary Range: $102415 - $158322 Per Year

Job Summary: This position will be in Financial Management Office for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO), within the Office of the Deputy Secretary of VA (DEPSECVA) located in Washington, DC. The incumbent serves as a Budget Analyst with overall responsibilities for managing, planning, organizing, and administrating annual and multi-year budgeting in support of a wide range of administrative, analytical and management activities.

Major Duties:

  • Perform budget formulation work involving preparation of detailed analyses and estimates of annual funding needs for assigned organizations/programs into a consolidated budget request. Assemble and develop background data, narratives and other pertinent information to support the annual budget request in Congressional Justifications, budget hearings, and various internal and external deliverables and meetings. Perform budget execution and administration work involving incurring obligations and actual expenditures with different sources and types of funding, e.g. direct, reimbursements, single/multi/no-year appropriations, allotments, transfer of funds to and from other agencies, refunds. Maintain budget, funds control, execution systems and tools to ensure compliance, accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and timely accomplishments of all financial management and budgetary regulations and financial transactions, to include corrections and reconciliations. Review commitment and obligating documents to ensure correct funding citations, amounts, written information and required signatures are prepared properly for funds authorization. Formulate and/or monitor the execution of a long range, i.e., 3 to 5 years or longer, detailed budget forecasts and plans to fund the implementation of the EHR system. Review and analyze execution to ensure that obligations and expenditures are in accordance with planned rates. Research and provide information concerning the use of funds for specific purposes by researching appropriate legal and regulatory guides. Conduct trend analysis and develop recommendations for budgetary adjustments to support anticipated and unanticipated changes in program operations and funding and enhance the program's efficiency. Research, assemble, and prepare a variety of written and oral reports covering the status of funds, obligations, expenditures, and projections for management review. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday between 8:30a-4:00p EST Compressed/Flexible: May be available. Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Budget Analyst/PD19087A and PD19088A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Qualifications: To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/11/2026. 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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 as described below: Specialized experience at the GS-11 level is defined as work that involves applying analytical techniques to evaluate the cost effectiveness of program activities, forecast multi-year fiscal requirements, and resolve complex budgetary problems; applying budget concepts, methods, and techniques to administer financial management of funds for assigned activities; utilizing cost benefit analysis to determine the effects of changes on agency budget and program milestones; communicating ideas clearly, both orally and in writing. Specialized experience at the GS-12 level is defined as work that involves expert knowledge and skill in analyzing, interpreting, and applying policy and regulatory decisions to develop budgetary plans, policies and guidance; detailed knowledge and skill to apply principles, practices, and methods of budget formulation and execution to determine whether obligations, expenditures, and allotments are with in funding limits; thorough knowledge of financial management processes and budgetary concepts to identify projected budget estimates; communicating ideas clearly, both orally and in writing. 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/12954977. 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, 05/11/2026. 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: 2026-05-11