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Program Budget Analyst

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Job Description

SAIC is seeking a highly skilled Program/Budget Analyst (SETA) to provide financial and programmatic support to a U.S. Government customer. This role involves comprehensive oversight of cost, schedule, and performance to ensure alignment with mission goals and strategic objectives. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise to drive resource planning, execution, and analysis, ensuring optimal allocation and utilization of financial resources in support of mission-critical programs.

This role includes leading efforts to develop and manage long-term budget plans, facilitating multi-year budget submissions (e.g., CBJB/IPBS/CBP), creating execution justifications, and capturing and analyzing unfunded requirements (UFRs). The selected candidate will conduct impact analyses to evaluate resource shortfalls and provide detailed recommendations to mitigate risks and sustain critical operations.

As a trusted Strategic Advisor, the Program/Budget Analyst will partner with government stakeholders to facilitate sound financial decision-making. The candidate will deliver actionable insights and practical solutions to optimize budget usage, address challenges, and prioritize funding requirements to sustain and enable mission success.

The successful candidate will provide:

Financial Planning and Budget Oversight

  • Develop, track, and maintain multi-year budget forecasts to ensure alignment with mission priorities and resource strategies.
  • Monitor and advise on cost, schedule, and performance baselines, leveraging Earned Value Management (EVM) principles to evaluate budget execution and identify variances.
  • Provide execution justifications that effectively address financial performance, funding changes, and associated impacts.
  • Deliver periodic cost and performance analyses, ensuring recommendations align with strategic goals.
  • Create detailed financial documentation, including spending plans, program change requests, and briefings, and facilitate reviews with stakeholders to secure buy-in.

Procurement Contract Management

  • Process Requests for Contract Actions (RCA) to support the monthly enterprise IT procurement contract modification.
  • Mange/conduct budget transfers per fund center based on customer requests as well as the month enterprise procurement contact modification.
  • Maintain the structure of the EPT Logistics funds and fund centers and ensure that the budget aligned to each fund matches the contact
  • Create/modify/delete fund centers using the procurement tool and provide performance reporting capability via dashboards, etc.
  • Revie, validate, track and report on procurement contractor invoices.
  • Review, provide analysis and metrics on procurement contract performance, assist in determining procurement contract fee recommendations.
  • Identify, track, and document unfunded requirements (UFRs), including developing robust cost estimates and priority recommendations based on mission needs.
  • Evaluate resource gaps and assist in identifying and implementing mitigation strategies to address critical funding shortfalls.
  • Provide thoughtful analysis and structured recommendations to reprioritize resources or advocate for increased funding to resolve UFRs.

Unfunded Requirements and Resource Management

  • Identify, track, and document unfunded requirements (UFRs), including developing robust cost estimates and priority recommendations based on mission needs.
  • Evaluate resource gaps and assist in identifying and implementing mitigation strategies to address critical funding shortfalls.
  • Provide thoughtful analysis and structured recommendations to reprioritize resources or advocate for increased funding to resolve UFRs.

Impact Analysis and Risk Mitigation

  • Conduct impact assessments to analyze the downstream effects of funding adjustments on program delivery, resource availability, and mission timelines.
  • Collaborate with program managers and technical leads to anticipate resource risks and develop mitigation plans for constrained funding scenarios.
  • Measure program performance against planned objectives and optimize resources for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Utilize EVM concepts and metrics (e.g., CPI, SPI, BAC, and EAC) to understand and communicate budget health to stakeholders and decision-makers.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Reporting

  • Serve as a trusted financial and programmatic advisor to government stakeholders, fostering alignment between mission requirements and financial strategies.
  • Compile and analyze execution data to prepare detailed reports, white papers, and presentations for senior leadership and external partners.
  • Facilitate compliance with federal funding requirements, ensuring organization-wide adherence to guidelines governing fiscal management, accounting, and reporting.

Qualifications

  • Within a STEM field of study (e.g., Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related--Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; Masters and eight (8) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and five (5) years or more experience.
  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • Must possess and maintain a Top Secret (TS)/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance with current Poly.
  • PMP is a plus, but not required.
  • Earned Value Professional (EVP) or other advanced credentials in EVM is a plus.
  • Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM) or equivalent certification is a plus.

About Us

SAIC® is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

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