Summary This position is located in Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Management Services, Financial Services Directorate. This Directorate provides a wide array of critical business, financial, and contracts support services for the Air Traffic Organization. Responsibilities The Management Analyst applies experience and advanced analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to analyze and evaluate program activities to ensure conformance with FAA policies and procedures. Performs multiple and varying assignments under the limited direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. This work affects the daily operations of assigned Service Units. As an individual contributor, the Analyst applies experience and advanced knowledge of qualitative and quantitative methods, the Federal budget process, and project planning to monitor the utilization of funds, cost trends and alert management to funding problems. Assists in performing other actions related to procurement, credit card requests and contracts management. Assignments may require the ability to work across functional and/or organizational lines to identify, analyze, and recommend solutions for complex/difficult problems. Applies basic budget processes, principles, objectives, and regulations to analyze financial data and budgets submitted from assigned Service Units to assist with the budget formulation process and to identify requirements for OPS and F&E Activity 5 funds. The Analyst uses automated systems and databases such as OBIWAN and REGIS to analyze internal (cuff) records, accounting report reconciliations, and agency financial reports, and to extract and convert financial information for analysis, trending, reporting, and presentation. Assists more experience analysts in the preparation and coordination of budget information for internal management review and decision making. Assists in the development of statistical charts and graphs to clearly articulate trends or to highlight information that leads to data driven decision making. Provides guidance and on-the-job training to junior analysts in day-to-day operations. Tracks and analyzes data, and assists in preparing reports and statistical material to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, and recommends solutions for complex/difficult problems. Recommends improvements to systems and processes. Contacts typically are internal and external to AJI, with regular contacts among ATO Service Units, customers, and other external parties to share information about the FAA and to explain the applications of policies and procedures. Although established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, the Analyst uses considerable discretion to select the most appropriate approach(es) or to recommend new approaches. Assignments often require reviews of policies and precedents under the limited guidance of a manager or other employee. Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager, and refers problems that require their attention. The Team Manager periodically reviews work, typically at major milestones and at completion, for policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-G, FG/GS-10/11 level. This experience is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized Experience is defined as: -Experience using automated systems and databases to analyze internal (cuff) records, accounting report reconciliations, and financial reports AND -Experience collecting and analyzing data. You should include relevant examples of the specialized experience in your work history. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered. Answer all questions to the best of your ability. DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD, OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE. You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this @type of experience later in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process. Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification. Applicants who fail to demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration for this position. Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Education Education cannot be substituted for experience. Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about Core Compensation is available at: https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working_here/benefits. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a human resource specialist as appropriate. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: (1) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping, and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration. AFSCME Interview Criteria: Article 42, Section 13 states: If the selecting official decides to interview any employee on the selection list for a vacancy, then all who remain under consideration for the position at that point in the process must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. If it is determined that interviews are required and telephone interviews are not utilized, travel expenses incidental to these interviews will be paid in accordance with the Agency's travel regulations and this Agreement. This Level 5 (Moderate Risk; Public Trust) position requires favorable adjudication of a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA
