Budget Analyst

Aretum, a leading government contracting company specializing in technology-enabled mission support services, is seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Budget Analyst to join our team. As a Budget Analyst at Aretum, you will play a vital role in supporting the financial planning and budgeting process, monitoring financial performance, and providing analysis and recommendations to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

At Aretum, our mission is to deliver innovative solutions and outstanding service to our government clients. We are committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology to help our clients achieve their objectives effectively and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate development of the 5-Year Resource Allocation Plan and the DHS Real Property Capital Plan submission. This includes representing the client at all Line of Business Working Group meetings, performing detailed analysis on project requirements vs funding levels, developing justifications for programmatic gaps and requested increases, entering and managing data in CBP's financial management systems and developing resource allocation recommendations for senior leadership.
• Coordinate development of the real property portion of CBP's budget requests, to include the OMB Justification and President's Budget request. This includes serving as the primary point of contact for CBP Budget, developing budget justifications and briefings in defense of CBP's budget requests, analyzing impacts to real property capabilities by DHS during the release of the Resource Allocation Decision or OMB's pass back.
• Coordinate development of CBP's financial and procurement plans prior to the year of execution. This includes conducting analysis on marks from Congress, developing templates and taskers for Program Management Offices (PMOs) to respond, coordinating with CBP Budget and Procurement, and developing recommendations for CBP leadership on funding level impacts.
• Support CBP leadership in coordination of real property planning efforts with internal and external stakeholders. This includes participating and coordinating responses to DHS, participating in working groups on real property best practices, developing business cases and lifecycle cost estimates for major capital projects, and other ad hoc engagement efforts that further mature CBP's real property capabilities.
• Develop program metrics and collect supporting data to include Enterprise Services Quarterly Metrics, responsible for obtaining, analyzing, and submitting metric data to the CBP Office of Accountability.
• Support ongoing operations, including developing briefing decks for monthly planning calls, recording meeting minutes, maintaining the SharePoint library, contributing to internal/external policy and requirements development, attending meetings for leadership and other tasks as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, or similar analytical field.
• Minimum of 5 years of related experience in the realm of federal budgeting, PPB&E, annual budget cycle and associated areas.
• Professional knowledge of the federal government's budget justification process to include the development of 5-years plans through formulation of the execution year spend plan.
• Knowledge of real property to include basic terminology to be used in budget requests and the concepts of life cycle management.
• Experience in financial and budget analysis methodologies in the federal space, including financial baselines, congressional commentary, cost estimates and requirements.
• Ability to work with a wide variety of customer sets including program managers, technical staff and CBP leadership.
• Ability to pass a federal background investigation (Public Trust).