[Hiring] Budget Execution Analyst @BizFirst

Role Description

This is a remote position.

Job Title: Budget Execution Analyst

Security: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust / Moderate Risk determination required

Work Location Type: Fully remote

Work Type: Full-time

Program Name: MARAD CFO Financial Management Support Services

Agency Name: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Maritime Administration (MARAD), Office of the Chief Financial Officer (MAR-251)

Contract Term: September 30, 2026 - September 29, 2031 (base year plus four option years)

Start Date: October 2026

Reports To: Budget Execution & Accounting Lead; program direction from the Senior Program Manager & CFO Strategic Advisor

BizFirst is assisting our client with recruiting a Budget Execution Analyst to support the Maritime Administration (MARAD) CFO Financial Management Support Services program. This is a full-time, fully remote role on an awarded task order, with an October 2026 start date.

What will you do:

• Track MARAD’s funds from apportionment through outlay across appropriated, reimbursable and revolving fund accounts.
• This role focuses on budget execution and funds control, with a monthly Status of Funds report as the recurring deliverable.
• The task order sets standards of 100% timely delivery, 98% calculation accuracy and zero Anti-Deficiency Act threshold breaches, subject to Government review and execution audit.
• Work is independently reviewed before release, and risks to deadlines or funding limits are escalated to the Senior Program Manager with a recommended action.

Responsibilities

• Monitor execution across appropriated, reimbursable and revolving fund accounts, linking apportionments and funding controls to commitments, obligations, expenditures, outlays and available balances by fund and period.
• Track OMB SF-132 apportionments and reapportionments and SF-1151 nonexpenditure fund transfers, maintaining the current apportionment position for each account.
• Prepare the monthly Status of Funds execution report, planning backward from submission through source cutoff, preparation, independent review and release.
• Monitor obligation thresholds and immediately escalate potential over-obligation or Anti-Deficiency Act risk through the Senior Program Manager to designated Government officials, without making the determination yourself.
• Assist in preparing congressional budget justification exhibits and the supporting execution data.
• Evaluate multi-year funding trends and build execution forecasts from reconciled actuals and estimated remaining activity, using approved plans, award milestones and reimbursable information.
• Compare actual to forecast each cycle, separating timing shifts from changed requirements or assumptions before recommending rescheduling or addressing funding gaps.
• Prepare exception briefs identifying the affected funding, amount, timing, cause and recommended action.
• Support the Budget Execution & Accounting Lead on reimbursable and revolving fund execution questions.
• Supply validated execution source data to the Business Analytics Lead for management dashboards, with control totals agreed before use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business or a related field.
• Four or more years of federal financial management experience, including budget execution or funds control.
• Working knowledge of apportionments, allotments, commitments, obligations, undelivered orders, unliquidated obligations and available balances.
• Direct experience with SF-132 apportionment preparation or analysis and SF-133 budget execution reporting.
• Working knowledge of the U.S. Standard General Ledger, funds control concepts and Anti-Deficiency Act risk indicators.
• Ability to work to a fixed monthly delivery calendar and an accuracy standard audited by the customer.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust / Moderate Risk determination.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a civilian agency CFO office, particularly within the Department of Transportation.
• Hands-on use of Oracle Federal Financials, particularly DOT’s Delphi.
• Experience with SF-1151 nonexpenditure transfers and reimbursable or revolving fund execution.
• Experience preparing congressional budget justification exhibits or OMB MAX A-11 submissions.
• Experience building execution forecasts that leadership relies on for funding decisions.
• CGFM, CPA or CDFM credential.

What Success Looks Like

• In the first 90 days: a working funds-control view by fund and period, the current apportionment position confirmed for every account, and the first Status of Funds report delivered on calendar and accepted without revision.
• By the end of the base year: zero Anti-Deficiency Act threshold breaches, 100% on-time monthly Status of Funds reporting, calculation accuracy at or above 98%, and forecast variances explained by cause.

Work Authorization and Pre Employment

• Public Trust / Moderate Risk determination required; work may begin on interim suitability approval where the Government grants it.
• Candidates who have served in the federal government will be asked to confirm that no post-government employment restriction applies to this work, and to share any separation ethics guidance they received.
• Our client will complete its own review before an offer is finalized.
• Government-furnished laptop, VPN and system access provided.