Work involves reviewing, analyzing, consolidating, and revising budget estimates, justification statements, and budget execution plans submitted by organizations. The incumbent advises managers on appropriate budgetary action to be taken to meet agency needs, makes recommendations affecting substantive programs, monitors and reports on the rate of expenditure of funds, and alerts managers of trends in obligation of funds. Decisions made are affected by conflicting and changing influences. The primary purpose of the work is to review, analyze, monitor, and resolve budgetary problems in all program and budgetary aspects of assigned program area to assure compliance with Secretarial priorities, and OMB and Congressional guidelines. Advice, information, and recommendations made by the incumbent concerning the budget are used to form the basis for Secretarial decisions regarding the program content, resource level, and format of the agency budget requests to OMB and Congress.
Contacts normally take place at formal budget briefings, or negotiations.
Contacts are to advise officials of the current status of agency programs, and to persuade them to approve recommended funding requests, budgetary actions, and estimates. Actively participates in OMB and Congressional reviews of the budget on behalf of the Department's program and budgetary policies. The work is sedentary. The work is normally performed in an office setting.