Description
Evaluate, formulate, and monitor budgets for specific programs; analyze financial and performance data; ensure compliance with policies and regulations; and advise program leadership to optimize resources and achieve objectives.
- • Review program operating budgets to assess trends affecting resource needs.
- • Analyze monthly program budget and accounting reports to maintain obligation and expenditure controls.
- • Lead preparation of program budget execution, variance, and forecast reports.
- • Partner with program managers to align budget adjustments with scope, schedule, and performance changes.
- • Align program funding sources with organizational accounts and contingency reserves.
- • Provide guidance on cost estimating, resource allocation, and program budget formulation.
- • Consolidate program budgets and recommend approval or denial of funding requests.
- • Identify opportunities to improve program efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
- • Verify program budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with policies and regulations.
- • Perform cost-benefit analyses to evaluate program alternatives and funding options.
- • Interpret budget directives and implement program-level policies, controls, and fund limits.
- • Compile and analyze financial, schedule, and performance data to determine program resource requirements.
- • Present and defend program budget justifications to leadership and funding authorities.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
