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Markon Solutions

Plans and Budget Officer

Markon Solutions, Herndon, Virginia, United States, 22070


Job Title

Plans and Budget Officer

Job Description

Company Overview:

Eager to join a team where your skills are valued, your growth is nurtured, and your impact is profound? Look no further than Markon, a premier consulting firm deeply dedicated to advancing our nation's most critical missions.

At Markon, we don't just offer jobs - we offer opportunities for personal and professional transformation. Empowering our employees to lead, innovate, and excel, we foster an environment where new ideas are not just welcomed but celebrated. As a perennial Washington Post Top Workplace, we prioritize the well-being and success of our team members, ensuring they can bring their best selves to work.

Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, Markon has garnered national recognition for our unwavering dedication to excellence in serving the intelligence community, as well as federal civilian and defense agencies. Our growing reach extends across 17 states, 116 countries, and 5 continents, where our team of dynamic professionals collaborates to deliver unparalleled program and project management services.

Markon values people and the tremendous impact each individual can make - which is why we're consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in federal government consulting. Here, you can help solve the nation's most important challenges, surrounded by colleagues who help you grow, advance, and succeed. We are deeply dedicated to what matters - bringing out the best in each other to advance our clients' missions.

Join us and make a meaningful impact.

Markon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description:

Markon's partner company is seeking a Plans and Budget Officer to support our Intelligence Customer by providing expert resource management to the PMO portfolio.

Responsibilities may include:

Provide strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the CLOUDWork activities

Support Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build

Develop and maintain spend plans

Reconcile spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommend options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources

Stay current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assist in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with the guidance

Assist personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible

Prepare supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and re-programming

Assist with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsors' program build.

Perform short- and long-term financial trend analyses for the Office

Prepare briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities

Coordinate and respond to budget requirements and budget taskings

Collaborate with Directorate's Resource Management Team as required; attend resource meetings

Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

Job Requirements

Requirements:

Must have an active/current TS/SCI with FS Polygraph

Ability to run reports in Cognos, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, P6 to include tracking assessing of execution constantly

Exhibit full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years

Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions

Ability to develop and implement long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborate in strategic planning for future years

Ability to prepare budget exercise submissions; assimilate information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible and executable

Experience ensuring program execution is proceeding within available resources constraints and remain consistent with goals.

Experience proposing and implementing resource realignment as required or in response to unplanned situations.

Broad comprehension of relevant statues, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution process.

Ability to construct and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity.

Exhibit strong organizational and time management skills.

Demonstrate excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear, concise request for funding and responses to taskings.

Demonstrate excellent oral communication skills

Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.

Desired Skills

Awareness of Sponsors' programs, policies and systems

Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment

Travel

0 - 10%

Location

Herndon, VA - Herndon, VA US (Primary)

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Category

Project/Program Management

Exemption Type

Exempt

Date Needed By

Security Clearance

TS/SCI with a Full Scope Polygraph

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