Budget Analyst

Summary

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This position is located in the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicare, Contractor Management Group.

As a Budget Analyst, GS-0560-13, you will be responsible for the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) budget formulation and execution for the annual CMS Operating Plan.

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This job is open to

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### The public

U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S. ### Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees whose job, agency or department was eliminated and are eligible for priority over other applicants. ### Clarification from the agency

United States Citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S., and Federal employees who meet the definition of a "surplus" or "displaced" employee.

Duties

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• Work independently as a project leader to develop refinements to current cost estimation methodologies that include recurring and nonrecurring expenses.
• Manage project plans, ensuring timely completion of action items and achievement of critical milestones.
• Review and evaluate programmatic changes through the change management process to determine the financial/budgetary impact on MAC contract requirements and statement of work.
• Identify, compile, monitor and analyze MAC cost, budget and workload data in order to detect areas of contractor operation performance that may require corrective action.
• Provide technical support to staff and applies modeling and statistical techniques to forecast financial and key operational performance metrics.

Requirements

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### Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National to apply for this position.
• You will be subject to a background and suitability investigation.
• Selective Service: Males born after December 31, 1959, must be regis