Completed work is reviewed for effectiveness in meeting budgetary and program objectives and deadlines and consistency of budgetary actions and recommendations. Guidelines are not always applicable and the incumbent must use judgment in choosing, interpreting, and applying the guidelines. Assignments are of more than average difficulty and involve the consideration of legal and regulatory constraints, methods for obtaining and distributing funds, proposed uses of requested funds, cyclical time frames and deadlines, and alternative means of accomplishing budgetary and program objectives. Work often involves making decisions and recommendations concerning the technical treatment of budgetary data under conditions of high uncertainty and time pressure. The primary purpose of the work is to review, analyze, and monitor all program and budgetary aspects of assigned programs to assure compliance with applicable guidelines and priorities.
Contacts normally take place at formal budget briefings, or negotiations.
Contacts are also made to resolve budgetary issues and problems and to brief officials of the current status of agency programs. Contacts with persons outside the Department are to exchange information and to obtain data needed to compile, monitor, or adjust the organization's budget. Actively participates in 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.