Budget & Payroll Analyst, Maritime Administration
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Budget and payroll analyst supporting the U.S. Maritime Administration’s federal financial management. Tracking funds, reconciling payroll, forecasting costs, and reporting funding exceptions.
Responsibilities:
- Track MARAD funds from apportionment through outlay and keep payroll charges reconciled to funding
- Link apportionments and funding controls to commitments, obligations, expenditures, outlays and available balances by fund and period
- Build execution forecasts from reconciled actuals and estimated remaining activity
- Compare actuals to forecasts and distinguish timing shifts from changed requirements or assumptions
- Prepare exception briefs identifying affected funding, amount, timing, cause and recommended action
- Escalate potential over-obligation or Anti-Deficiency Act risk through the Senior PM to designated Government officials
- Reconcile authorized payroll records to labor distributions, funding and accounting at each pay-period cutoff
- Test for incorrect charging, distribution changes, unusual trends, missing or duplicate activity and timing differences
- Prepare correction requests for independent review
- Project payroll and compensation costs and explain actual results against prior forecasts
- Support budget formulation with execution trends and documented compensation and reimbursable assumptions
- Supply validated payroll and execution source data to Budget Execution and Payroll dashboards
- Apply role-based access to protect employee detail and ensure appropriate aggregation in executive products
Requirements:
- 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, unliquidated obligations and available balances
- Experience with federal payroll or labor cost data, including reconciling labor distribution to accounting records
- Working knowledge of the U.S. Standard General Ledger and funds control concepts, including Anti-Deficiency Act risk indicators
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust determination
- 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 preparing or analyzing SF-132 apportionments and SF-133 budget execution reports
- Experience building execution forecasts or payroll cost models that leadership relies on
- Familiarity with federal payroll providers and labor distribution structures
- CGFM, CPA or CDFM credential
Benefits:
- Government-furnished laptop, VPN and system access provided
- Full-time role on an awarded task order
- Remote work arrangement

















