Overview Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details. Responsibilities The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individuals to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (aka Plans and Budget Officer). The candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support to the PMO portfolio. The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics, provide support to financial, budget, planning and execution, and organize financial data into up-to-date records. Key responsibilities of the Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer include but are not limited to: Providing strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the PMO activities. Support Office in formulating, justifying, and defending budget build. Develop and maintain 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 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 reprogramming. Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor’s program build. Performs short- and long-term financial trend analysis for the office. Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities. Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings. Collaborates with Directorate’s resource Management Team as required, attends resource meetings. Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation, and briefing of information. Qualifications Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph. Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer. Ability to operate in complex and evolving financial systems, as required Proven ability to run reports in COGNOS, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, P6 and other financial systems to include tracking and assessing of execution constantly. 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. Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years. Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submission is rational, defensible, and executable. Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints remains consistent with goals; proposed and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances. Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes. Routinely constructs and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component’s resource management continuity. Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills. Demonstrates excellent writings skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and responses to taskings. Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues. Proven ability to interacts with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment. BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7 Desired: Experience managing execution of Sponsor budgets Ability to translate complex budget information into executive-level briefings or artifacts EEO Statement EEO Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.