Budget Analyst

Dynamis is seeking a senior Budget Analyst to provide acquisition, financial, and program support to a headquarters-level U.S. Air Force organization in Arlington, Virginia. This role supports mission execution by helping develop, justify, track, and report resources across annual and multi-year funding cycles.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in Department of Defense resource management (planning, programming, budgeting, and execution), strong analytical judgment, and the ability to translate complex financial and program data into clear recommendations, executive-ready briefings, and defensible resource products. 

Top-Secret with SCI eligibility clearance is required.

Responsibilities:

• Resource Planning, Programming, and Budget Development. Develops and supports resource requirements and funding strategies across current-year and out-year cycles. Identifies, validates, and documents mission-driven requirements; supports program and budget submissions; and prepares coordinated materials for senior leader decision-making. Translates requirements into funding actions over time, anticipates execution and reporting impacts, and strengthens narratives and justifications to ensure consistency, traceability, and alignment to strategic priorities.


• Financial Data Analysis and Decision Support. Develops and supports analysis of financial and program data to inform programming and budgeting decisions. Synthesizes inputs from multiple sources, identifies gaps or inconsistencies, assesses impacts to mission outcomes, and develops recommendations that balance near-term execution realities with longer-term resource objectives. Communicates variances, trade space, and operational impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Budget Execution Monitoring and Funds Management. Develops and supports execution management for assigned accounts and validates the integrity of key execution data across the funding lifecycle. Tracks funding actions through required review and approval channels, verifies transactions align to approved purpose and timing, and resolves discrepancies through research and stakeholder coordination. Identifies execution risks early and elevates options for corrective action.


• Reporting and Briefing Materials. Develops and supports routine and ad hoc resource status products to enable internal reviews and senior leader decision forums. Produces execution summaries, variance explanations, and adjustment justifications; prepares clear briefings and presentations; and ensures consistency across narratives, tables, and underlying source data. Delivers products that are concise for leadership consumption while retaining the supporting detail required to withstand scrutiny and follow-on questions.


• Requirements and Documentation Support. Develops and supports analysis of new and ongoing fiscal requirements and prepares standard funding documentation needed to execute program objectives. Maintains complete supporting files, coordinates staffing packages, and ensures actions are accompanied by accurate rationale, supporting documentation, and approval history. Operates with disciplined documentation practices to preserve auditability and decision traceability.


• Stakeholder Coordination and Staff Action Support. Develops and supports coordinated responses to leadership taskers and stakeholder inquiries by researching background, drafting staff actions, and assembling complete staffing packages. Manages short suspense timelines, competing priorities, and version control while ensuring alignment between narrative positions and underlying financial data.


• Governance and Process Support. Develops and supports resolution of resource issues through established governance and decision-support processes by preparing analysis, narratives, and advocacy materials. Documents assumptions and constraints, frames viable options, and supports informed trade-offs across competing priorities. Coordinates inputs through formal review channels and maintains defensible, consistent positions across stakeholders.


• Meeting Support and Action Tracking. Develops and supports meeting outcomes by capturing decisions, action items, and resource implications for planning and execution. Produces concise meeting summaries documenting outcomes, impacts, and recommended follow-on actions, and coordinates closure of assigned action items across stakeholders.


• Financial Systems and Data Tool Utilization. Develops and supports data-driven products using standard government financial and programming systems, spreadsheets, and reporting tools. Reconciles current-year and future-year data, validates data lineage, and maintains organized records to produce repeatable, auditable outputs. Structures data for analysis and creates clear roll-ups and drilldowns to support consistent reporting over time.


• Initiative and Performance Tracking. Develops and supports initiative tracking by monitoring progress, assessing resource impacts, and reporting risks that may require reprioritization. Produces summaries that integrate performance, cost, and schedule to support leadership understanding and decision-making.

Requirements:

• US. Citizen


• Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance


• Master’s degree or equivalent expertise in a relevant field (e.g., finance, accounting, business, public administration, management, or related discipline)


• 10+ years of experience supporting DoD resource management functions (planning/programming/budgeting/execution, financial management, or closely related work)


• Demonstrated experience in the following areas:
  
  
  
  • Budget formulation and budget execution support, including development of resource requirements, preparation of budget/program materials, and execution monitoring (e.g., distribution, commitments, obligations, expenditures).
  
  
  • Briefing senior leaders using clear, defensible financial and program analysis, including preparation of executive-ready presentations and talking points for decision forums.
  
  
  • Reconciling and validating financial data across multiple systems and sources, including identifying discrepancies, documenting data lineage, and producing repeatable results that can withstand review.
  
  
  • Preparing decision packages for governance and review boards, including development of coordinated narratives, assumptions, trade-space analysis, and supporting documentation suitable for formal staffing and approvals.
  
  
  • Responding to time-sensitive taskers and inquiries by producing accurate, well-organized staff actions (e.g., issue papers, coordinated responses, background materials) under short suspense timelines.
  
  
  • Stakeholder coordination across multiple organizations, including managing version control, aligning narrative positions to underlying financial data, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
  
  
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience supporting a headquarters-level DoD organization or comparable environment requiring rapid turnaround, high visibility reporting, and cross-functional coordination.


• Working familiarity with government financial and programming systems and common analytics/reporting tools (without relying on a single proprietary toolset).


• Experience producing routine execution status reporting (e.g., monthly financial position summaries) and translating variances into actionable recommendations.