Work Description: The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individuals to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (aka Plans and Budget Officer). The
candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support to the PMO
portfolio. The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics,
provide support to financial, budget, planning and execution, and organize financial data into up-to-date
records.
• Providing strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the cloud activities.
• Support Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build.
• Develop and maintain spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to
address potential over- or under- utilization of resources.
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assists in
creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assists personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions
wherever possible.
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and
reprogramming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor’s program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analysis for the office.
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
• Collaborates with Directorate’s resource Management Team as required, attends resource
meetings.
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and
briefing of information.
Qualifications:
• Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer.
• Proven ability to run reports in COGNOS, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, P6 to include
tracking and assessing of execution constantly.
• Exhibit full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget
out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and
propose solutions.
• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in
strategic planning for future years.
• Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals,
requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submission is rational, defensible and
executable.
• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints remains
consistent with goals; proposed and implements resource realignment (including from multiple
sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization
and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource
analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component’s resource management
continuity.
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent writings skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and
responses to taskings.
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interacts with customers, senior leadership and program managers in a highly
matrixed environment.
• At least 10 years of experience working in in a testing capacity on a complex Sponsor program
