Wing Resource Advisor

Apogee Solutions, a Woman-owned Small Business, is seeking a Wing Resource Advisor at Shaw Air Force Base, SC to provide support for the oversight and management of multiple disciplines to support the 25th Attack Wing (25 ATKW) mission across three geographically separated locations.

The Wing Resource Advisor will assist with wing-level interface between HQ ACC, AFGSC, AFSOC, AETC, Combat Air Force units, and other USAF, Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Government agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a resource advisor/budget analyst and assist the Wing Finance Manager in performing day-to-day control and management involving the formulation, execution, and/or analysis of the 25 Attack Wing budget and funding requirements.
• Assist the Wing Finance Manager as the functional point of contact for day-to-day budget/financial issues.
• Work with MAJCOM and budget office counterparts to obtain, monitor, and track organization’s funds and work closely with supervisors/managers and/or project managers in utilization of resources, resolving problems, and determining funding/resource requirements.
• Compile findings and makes recommendations for development and implementation of procedures for financial management and budgeting functions in support of organizational programs/activities.
• Participate as a member of the Financial Working Group (FWG), making recommendations on funded and unfunded priorities, preparing justifications, and defending requirements. Attends the Financial Management Board.
• Perform budget formulation work involving review and preparation of budget estimates and financial plans.
• Review and analyze budget requests submitted by organizational activities to ensure their consistency, accuracy, and adherence to instructions.
• Research, consolidate, and summarize budgetary data from source documents, automated budgetary systems, accounting records, and reports for use in preparing budget estimates and annual financial plans.
• Interpret source information and properly apply it to the budget.
• Reviews organizational historical data and/or matches funding requests or projected costs of selected line items with past records to determine trends in spending and forecast annual funding needs. Analyzes data for prior, current, and upcoming year in preparing financial plans.
• Develop consolidated budget, and reviews and drafts statements for justifying funding requests within rules, regulations, and procedures.
• Perform budget execution and administration work involving the monitoring of obligations incurred and the actual expenditures of funds. Monitor, track, and review obligations, expenditures, reimbursable orders, and requests for allotments, identifying and reporting differences that are not in keeping with annual work plans. Compare obligations and expenditures and identifies conditions over or under obligation of funds.
• Prepare and conduct reprogramming and adjustments of funding to cover short falls, unanticipated expenses, and/or unexpected emergencies, identifying and referring to higher level officials reprogramming actions which require prior approval. Obtain and provide information concerning the propriety of using funds for specific purposes by researching appropriate legal and regulatory guides.
• Make recommendations for transfer of funds between object class and line-item accounts under the same appropriation or allotment when funds are needed to cover increases in obligations or when expenditure falls below established limits. Verify, enter, and adjust budgetary data in a variety of forms, schedules, and reports. Monitor year-end closing to ensure proper and full use of funds.
• Provide advice, assistance, and guidance on budgeting and related information and conducts analyses, reviews and special studies of budget and/or related information. Provide advice on budget and related matters such as types of funding available, effects of budgetary changes on related activities, and status and use of funds. Compile, prepare, and convey information about the budget and programs of the organization.
• Assist the Finance Manager in the preparation of guidance and/or interpretation of standard procedures and regulations relating to the organization’s budget and financial procedures/processes.
• Conduct budget-related training of organizational personnel on budget processes, procedures, requirements, etc. Research and analyzes available factual information, trends in the cost of accomplishing specific work objectives, and/or relationships among organizational needs/objectives. Evaluates results for possible effect on program plans and funding.
• Conduct special studies of financial programs and funding requirements to ensure the availability of funds.
• Utilize common budgetary methods and techniques, apply basic statistical formulas, and contrasts/compares current and historical budget and program data in conducting analyses.
• Use budgetary and other automated system(s) and computer-generated products in accomplishing budgeting/funding assignments. Performs quality checks of organization’s automated system database information, working with appropriate point of contact to resolve any significant problems.
• Use available computer software programs to produce required budget reports, plans, schedules, etc. Use computer products to facilitate effective analyses of budget information.

Requirements:

• US Citizen with the ability to pass a background check, to include Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fingerprint check and National Agency Check with Written Inquires (NACI)
• Active, adjudicated SECRET Clearance
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working as a sq (or higher) level Resource Advisors and experience interfacing with higher headquarters for readiness reporting and familiarity with all Air Force Financial Management software (ie, DEAMS, PIEE, etc.)
• No negative administrative, judicial, non-judicial, or criminal action/record in previous civilian or military employment for 5 years
• No history of being terminated from civilian employment, denied reenlistment, administratively discharged, or separated from the military under any condition other than honorable
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively within fast-paced, mission-driven settings while maintaining accuracy, discretion, and compliance with applicable policies and regulations
• Possess strong business acumen and professional judgment, with demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 applications, including but not limited to Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint
• Must have a strong attention to detail and be highly organized