Senior Budget & Plans Analyst

Position Overview

Peraton is seeking a highly experienced Senior Budget & Plans Analyst to support the strategic planning and financial management of a large Customer organization. This position will serve as a key advisor and coordinator for the organization's future-year budget planning, development, and approval process. The Senior Budget & Plans Analyst will be responsible for leading the development and coordination of strategic budget builds for future fiscal years, translating organizational priorities and requirements into executable budget plans, and navigating established government budget processes to secure approval and establish baselines. This position will work as part of a three-person budget team. While the other team members will focus primarily on current-year budget execution, tracking, and maintenance, the Senior Budget & Plans Analyst will have primary responsibility for future-year planning, budget formulation, and strategic resource alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the organization's future-year strategic budget planning and formulation activities.
• Develop, coordinate, and maintain budget builds for upcoming fiscal years based on organizational priorities, requirements, and strategic objectives.
• Work closely with senior leadership, program managers, financial stakeholders, and other organizational partners to identify future resource requirements and develop supporting budget strategies.
• Translate strategic plans and operational requirements into comprehensive, defensible budget submissions.
• Manage the coordination and integration of budget inputs across multiple programs, functions, and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain multi-year budget projections, funding profiles, and resource plans.
• Ensure budget submissions are accurate, complete, internally consistent, and aligned with applicable government policies, guidance, and processes.
• Navigate and manage the organization's established government budget formulation, review, approval, and baselining processes.
• Coordinate responses to budget reviews, data calls, leadership inquiries, and requests for additional justification or supporting analysis.
• Track the status of future-year budget submissions through the planning and approval cycle and communicate key milestones, risks, and issues to leadership.
• Support leadership in evaluating resource requirements, funding tradeoffs, and potential impacts to organizational priorities.
• Identify potential budget risks, shortfalls, and execution/planning disconnects and develop recommendations for resolution.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with government budget, finance, program, and acquisition stakeholders.
• Coordinate closely with the organization's current-year budget execution team to ensure continuity between future-year planning and current-year execution.
• Develop presentations, briefing materials, budget exhibits, decision documents, and other materials needed to communicate budget plans and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and auditability of budget assumptions, methodologies, decisions, and submissions.
• Provide subject-matter expertise and mentorship to other members of the budget team as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS and 16+ years of relevant experience in federal government budgeting, financial management, resource planning, strategic planning, or a related field; an additional four years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph level clearance
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating budget formulation and future-year budget planning for a large organization or complex program.
• Strong understanding of federal government budget processes, including budget development, review, approval, and budget baseline establishment.
  Experience developing and coordinating budget builds across multiple programs, organizations, or stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives and program requirements into detailed resource and budget plans.
• Strong understanding of government financial management principles, policies, and terminology.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership and presenting budget information, issues, and recommendations to executive-level stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends, risks, inconsistencies, and funding requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent budget activities and deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively across organizational boundaries and build effective relationships with government and contractor stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, including the ability to develop complex budget models, analyses, and executive-level presentations.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, public administration, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a large federal Customer organization with complex and multi-year resource requirements.
• Experience with the federal Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process or comparable government resource-management frameworks.
• Experience with the development of President's Budget, Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), or other multi-year government budget submissions, as applicable to the organization.
• Experience working with government financial management and budget systems.
• Experience coordinating budget submissions across multiple organizational components.
• Experience supporting senior government executives with strategic resource planning and budget decisions.
• Federal financial management, budgeting, or related certification (e.g., CGFM) is a plus.
• Prior experience working in a government or government-contractor environment.