Strategic Planning Analyst jobs in Virginia

Overview

Join Our Stellar Team at Castalia Systems!

Are you ready to skyrocket your career with us? We're on the lookout for ambitious individuals who are eager to make their mark in a diverse and thriving environment.

At Castalia Systems, we're not just another company – we're a certified Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) and Small Disadvantage Business (SDB) committed to excellence since 2011. Join us in delivering top-tier solutions to the dynamic Defense and Intelligence sector.

As valued members of our team, we prioritize your well-being. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Responsibilities

Castalia Systems is seeking a Portfolio and Strategic Planning Analyst in the Reston, VA area.

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Provide strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the Sponsor activities.
• Supports Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build.
• Develops and maintains spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources.
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with the guidance.
• Assists personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and re- programming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsors' program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses for the Office.
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
• Collaborates with Sponsor Directorate's Resource Management Team as required; attends resource meetings.
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.
• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity.
• Develop and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years.
• Prepare budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable.
• Ensure that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposes and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.

Qualifications

Security Clearance Requirement:

Active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in quantitative analysis, financial analysis, social sciences, or a closely related field and a minimum of 10 years' related work experience.
• Demonstrate professional competence as a plans and budget officer.
• Exhibit full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions.
• Exhibit broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Exhibit strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrate excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.