Finance – Budget Formulation Lead

Position: Finance – Budget Formulation Lead
Location: Washington D.C.
Work Environment: Onsite
Clearance Required: DHS Suitability  Status: Contingent Upon Award   Knowesis is looking for an experienced Finance – Budget Formulation Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead a financial and budget formulation team in support of a DHS office’s executive-level financial and budgeting efforts and activities. In this role, the ideal candidate will provide leadership and guidance to a team in ways that promote the client’s finance and budget activities.  

To be eligible for this position, candidates must have DHS Suitability and possess U.S. Citizenship without the need for sponsorship, both now and in the future. Applicants without proof of U.S. Citizenship will not be considered due to the position’s security clearance requirements.

The Job Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:  

• Provide budget formulation support for the federal customer.
• The contractor shall be knowledgeable in and support the development of strategic plans; Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) and Program Decision Options (PDOs); Office of Budget and Management Justification (OMBJ) and Congressional Justification (CJ) volumes, attachments, and artifacts; and Appropriation Committees' Technical Assistance requests.
• Interpret and analyze congressional legislation; prepare Congressional Budget Justification Reports.
• Develop Budget presentation materials, visuals, and analyses. Draft executive-level talking point language to accompany budget materials. Write detailed narratives to accompany budget data/packages for a wide range of stakeholders
• Perform a variety of complex analytical tasks in support of programs including cost estimating, resource planning and growth analysis, and long-range budget planning/analysis. Present analyses to leadership and provide recommendations to budget priorities as needed.
• Develop plans and monitor tasks to meet requirements for assigned program(s . Maintain oversight of all requirement tracking resources, ensuring accuracy, and completeness, and demonstrating advanced planning/coordination.
• Recommend, document, and manage new or updated processes, and develop project plans and schedules as required.
• Create ad-hoc Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution PPBE) reports as required.
• Support development and delivery of budget formulation training content.
• Manage highly complex budget datasets, tracking and validating budget formulation data throughout the PPBE cycle. Support data planning; analysis, correlation, and integration activities across CSD, leading data collection and validation sprints and implementing data to tracking sources. Advanced experience with Microsoft Excel and Power BI to analyze and visualize data.
• Develop reports and analyze performance metrics and programmatic PPBE documents.
• Conduct research and develop informational products articulating budget requirements to stakeholders.
• Support CSD information technology (IT) investment management activities using Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) best practices.

Required Qualifications:  

•  Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) experience.
• DHS PPBE experience shall include:
  • Development of strategic plans; Resource Allocation Plan (RAP) and Program Decision Options (PDOs); Office of Budget and Management Justification (OMBJ) and Congressional Justification (CJ) volumes, attachments, and artifacts; and Appropriation Committees' Technical Assistance requests.
  • Development of tasks/responses for Congressional Appropriators, OMB, DHS strategy/policy teams, etc.
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of experience using the Microsoft Office Suite, with advanced/skills using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Consulting with clients to define needs or problems and supervising studies and conducting surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
  • Demonstrating an ability to manage a large, matrixed, and remote workforce – especially- if the contract includes sub-contract agreements.
  • Experience with SharePoint administration and program development tools as well as competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, Project, etc.
• Experience in the following areas including,
  • Drafting executive-level communications (e.g., talking points and briefings) with few edits required.
  • Proven creative/outside-the-box thinker with the ability to identify problems and recommend alternatives and reasonable solutions.
  • Leading budget formulation d