Associate - Budget Analyst

Job Location: 

This role is 100% remote.

Clearance:

Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance. 

Job Description:

Blake Willson Group is seeking a detail-oriented Budget Analyst to support budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, rate development, cost-recovery analysis, and financial reporting for a federal client. The ideal candidate will have strong Excel and financial modeling skills and the ability to analyze, reconcile, and explain financial data from multiple sources. In this position, you will also:

• Support annual budgets, recurring forecasts, and monthly budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual analyses.
• Analyze expenditures, revenues, consumption, costs, and financial trends and identify significant variances and underlying drivers.
• Support development and maintenance of IT service rates, financial models, cost-recovery analyses, and customer impact analyses.
• Gather, validate, reconcile, and analyze financial and operational data from multiple sources.
• Maintain Excel-based budget, forecast, rate, and financial-analysis models, including supporting schedules, tables, and reporting tools.
• Prepare financial summaries, service-line and portfolio-level reporting, executive presentations, and management briefing materials.
• Analyze customer consumption, demand, service mix, and proposed rate changes to calculate financial impacts.
• Support process improvements, standard operating procedures, financial templates, and recurring reporting tools.
• Maintain documentation of financial assumptions, methodologies, reconciliations, model updates, and analytical results.
• Coordinate with senior analysts, finance personnel, project leadership, and business stakeholders to support accurate and timely deliverables.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience performing budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, accounting, cost analysis, or related financial analysis.
• 1+ year of experience performing financial modeling, budget-to-actual or forecast-to-actual variance analysis, and analyzing financial trends and drivers.
• 1+ year of experience using Microsoft Excel to organize, reconcile, and analyze financial data from multiple sources, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and financial calculations.

Desired Skills:

• Experience developing or maintaining Excel-based financial models and recurring financial reports.
• Experience with rate development, cost recovery, billing, or customer impact analysis.
• Experience reconciling financial, billing, operational, or consumption data from multiple systems.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to financial-data accuracy.
• Ability to document financial assumptions, methodologies, and analytical results clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with senior analysts, finance personnel, project leadership, and business stakeholders.

At Blake Willson Group, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation practices. For this position, we offer a competitive salary range of $50,000 to $60,000 in the United States. Your individual salary within this range will be determined by various factors, including but not limited to your education, experience, skills, and geographic location. We also provide a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which includes major medical benefits such as dental and vision coverage, a 401(k)-contribution plan, holiday and personal time off, professional development training & certification benefits, health & wellness subsidies, paid time off for community service, and more. We value your contributions and are committed to recognizing and rewarding your performance and the value you bring to our business.