Lead Budget Analyst

Lead Budget Analyst

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

Location(s): Birmingham, Alabama

Salary Range: $90410 - $117535 Per Year

Job Summary: This position is located in the Fiscal Service at the Birmingham VA Healthcare System. The incumbent performs a specified portion or portions of the full range of budget analysis assignments.

Major Duties:

• Responsible for the formulation and execution of the budget for all appropriations and programs. Responsible for analyzing and forecasting patient programs, services offered, employee turnover, new technology when detailed historical data is unavailable. Monitors actual financial, workload and FTEE against the plan. Identifies potential problem variances and reports to the supervisor. Performs variance analyses monthly and quarterly and makes regular salary and FTEE projections. Advises supervisor on actions necessary to meet end-of-year targets as actual objections may differ from original plans. Ensures control point clerks and officials remain on track to meet their budgets by monitoring the rate of expenditure of budgeted funds and by communicating with program officials and their staff. Identifies and analyzes trends in the receipt, obligation or expenditure of funds to assure that plans are met timely. Provides data to the Resources Management Council to assist in decision making for the resources of the facility. Analyzes funding requests submitted and makes recommendations on agenda items to the supervisor. Tracks approved funding actions. Provides services with data in support of their funding requests. Provides budgetary assistance to administrative officers or others with special purpose funding responsibility. Develops budget estimates to be used to answer Requests for Proposal or Grant Funding opportunities for new programs. Provides a variety of reports related to the status of funds (e.g., expenses and obligations), FTEE and workload for upper management. Prepares and submits required reports to VISN 7 and VACO. Provides technical assistance to lower level budget section staff including training and the production of the Budget section of the Fiscal Service. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 07:30 am - 16:00 pm. 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#: Lead Budget Analyst/PD10283O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): 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. 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: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 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 and knowledge of the basic legislation, departmental policies, processes, procedures and regulations that govern budgeting. Experience and knowledge of the health systems' budgetary, managerial and employment plans, policies and programs. Experience and knowledge of the agency's computer network, programs, organizational structure and operations. Experience forecasting the impact of inflation, unstable prices, uncertainty of necessary supplies and the renegotiating of all the station's contracts on the preliminary budget, existing budget and the budget forecast. Experience with medical center computerized accounting system (FMS), IFCAP system, VATAS and PC software. Experience with multiple and complex programs of the healthcare system to carry out planning, analyzing and forecasting aspects of the budget. Experience identifying quantitative budgetary and financial relationships between the agency's overall mission, its computer network and its budget, in order to apply analytical methods, 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/. Physical Demands: The work is principally sedentary. Some work may require walking in medical centers, warehouses, supply dumps, and similar areas to check on inventories and the existence of, or nature of, equipment and property. Work may also require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. Some employees may carry light items or drive a motor vehicle. No special physical effort or ability is required to do the work.

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/12941495. 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