Budget Analyst

Guidehouse is currently supporting the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, who provides federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Our FM consultants help federal clients execute their missions and optimize the operations of their finance organization, including supporting the areas of budget formulation and execution.

We understand the central functionality of the budget role within the office and the crucial need for accuracy during input transactions and output reconciliations. Guidehouse remains cognizant of the dual focus of the budget team to handle responsibilities of the budget requirements for the office as well as the mission critical management of budget execution for the OVW grant programs including:
* Support the development procedures of the Budget Officer to prepare materials for exhibit (presentation) to internal leaders (e.g., OVW Director) or external Federal entities (e.g., Congress).
* Support annual budget development, execution, and formulation activities; preparation of budget exhibits, cost modules, and base adjustments; development of Technical Assistance, Evaluation, Peer Review and other budget set-asides tracking and the coordinator of current budget data for their timely analysis; preparation and maintenance of budget crosscuts; and perform ad hoc budget analysis upon request.
* Maintain the existing in-house tool to track all grant commitments, special projects, recoveries, revenue grant funds, and carry forward; calculate set-asides; prepare Program Funding Inquiries; support Monthly Open Obligation Review; provide ad-hoc budget analysis upon request and support the development of quarterly budget reports, operating plan updates, Outlays and SF-133 reports.
* Maintain M&A registry and Payroll files for transactions including GSA leases/rent, OVW staff salaries and benefits, TDY, and Reimbursable Agreements (RA).
* Query budget data using UFMS including an extract of current fiscal year GPQs/GIQs for OVW to validate these commitments were recorded accurately based on the accounting control register and supporting documentation.
* Reconcile Grants and M&A transactions recorded in the accounting control register using JEDI reports including the Current Obligations Extract to support OVW’s Monthly Open Obligation Review, as well as to validate obligation supporting documentation, payment transactions, billings received, and charges recorded.
* Support grant award processing.
* Produce financial reports by account classification and consolidated reports for OVW.
* Provide support for ad-hoc financial queries for OVW Management and staff.
* Establish and maintain accounting control registers for all types of transactions.
* Enter, review, and report transactional data in UFMS, reconcile transaction and obligation documents, and track and resolve discrepancies.
* Provide administrative and data entry support to process travel authorizations, travel vouchers, requisitions, reimbursable agreements, purchase orders, and invoices.
* Develop and maintain cost modules with current data for analysis against baseline amounts.
* Coordinate current budget data for timely compilation of budget set-aside and special initiatives/projects (e.g., Technical Assistance, Evaluation, Peer Review) tracking.
* Monitor budget crosscuts baseline amounts and track progress with concurrence of support documents to transactions posted.
* Produce financial reports by account classification and consolidated reports for OVW.
* Produce ad hoc financial reports upon request.
* Maintain the OVW’s Non-Grant Financial Support Tool to ensure Indirect Funds (0409

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* Update OVW’s database tool with non-grant related financial data.
* Conduct financial cash reconciliation of OVW grants and non-grant activity.
* Establish reports to track all obligation and cash activity monthly for OVW.
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