Budget Analyst with 6 years of federal financial management experience across formulation, execution, and reporting in a GS-0560 series role. Specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 level administering appropriated funds under OMB Circular A-11, reconciling obligations in a core financial system, and preparing exhibits for the President's Budget. Applying to Announcement No. 24-DOI-12345, Budget Analyst GS-0560-12.
- Administer a $42M operating budget across three appropriations, tracking commitments, obligations, and outlays in the financial system of record and reconciling against monthly Treasury reports with a 99.6 percent accuracy rate (Knowledge of appropriation law and the budget cycle).
- Formulate annual budget submissions consistent with OMB Circular A-11, preparing MAX A-11 schedules and narrative justifications for the bureau's portion of the President's Budget (Skill in budget formulation).
- Execute funds control under the Antideficiency Act, posting commitments and de-obligations and flagging two potential over-obligations before they reached a violation threshold (Ability to apply funds-control regulations).
- Reconcile USASpending.gov DATA Act submissions quarterly, resolving 60-plus file-level errors and reducing certification delays from 9 days to 2.
- Build pivot-table models in Excel to project burn rates by quarter, giving program managers a 6-week lead time on year-end spend-down decisions.
- Processed obligations and travel authorizations in the agency core financial system, entering 1,200-plus transactions per quarter with documented separation-of-duties controls.
- Prepared spend plans and tracked status of funds for a $9M medical-supply account, drafting the recurring funds-status report distributed to four program offices.
- Audited purchase-card and travel reconciliations against supporting documentation, identifying $38K in mispostings for correction during a fiscal year-end review.
- Supported the annual financial-statement audit by pulling transaction-level evidence and responding to 25 auditor sample requests within deadline.
Budget formulation and execution · OMB Circular A-11 / MAX A-11 · Appropriation law and funds control · Antideficiency Act compliance · DATA Act / USASpending.gov reporting · Treasury reconciliation · Status of funds reporting · Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, modeling)
- Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), AGA (Association of Government Accountants)
- Federal Budgeting and Financial Management, Graduate School USA (continuing education)