Budget Analyst

This Budget Analyst position is within the Hospital and Specialty Medicine Business office at VA Puget Sound Healthcare System. The incumbent, under general guidance of the business manager, performs routine budget administration functions in the formulation, execution, and review of assigned positions of the appropriated budget of assigned service lines.

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement, 07/13/2026.

Time-In-Grade Requirement :

Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. For a GS-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note:

Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

Specialized Experience:

You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS 7 that has provided you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and is in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: preparing budget estimates, justifications and cost transfers; participating in the contracting process; reviewing cost records and furnishing historical cost data; maintaining records in electronic data base for preparation of charts/graphs and projected expenditures; interpreting and applying budget and finance regulations, procedures and processes; analyzing and comparing line item obligations and expenditures in approved operating budgets; determining if obligations, expenditures, and requested allotments are within funding limitations in an approved budget; knowledge of the budgetary and financial relationship of the clinical and administrative operations.

OR, Education:

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's or equivalent graduate degree or two (2) full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B or J.D in a related field of the position to be filled. Such education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.

OR, Combination:

Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience as described above and successfully completed graduate level education (in excess of the first year or 18 semester hours). The total combination must equal 100%. Education must demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. Education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ .