
Program Control and Budget Analyst Sr. Principal
Fort Belvoir, VAJob$140–180K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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SAIC seeks an experienced program control and budget analyst to manage budgets and provide financial management for projects and portfolios supporting the NRO Budget Director, site leadership, and the NRO mission. The analyst will work with technical planners, contract administrators, and government leaders, and brief project execution and resource requirements. The role requires extensive federal financial knowledge, NRO financial systems experience, and a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree paired with substantial related experience.
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Description
SAIC is seeking an experienced program control/budget analyst to independently oversee and manage the budget and provide financial management of ongoing projects and portfolios in support of the NRO Budget Director, site senior leadership, and the NRO mission. In this role, you will regularly interface with technical planners, contract administrators, and multiple levels of government leaders and decision makers to facilitate understanding of the budget and resource requirements, and brief the status of project execution and requirements to the Budget Director and other senior leaders. The ideal candidate will be able to analyze large and complex data; apply critical problem-solving skills and proactively develop creative solutions; and effectively communicate budgetary issues, strategies, and recommendations to customers and stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities:
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Perform detailed and complex analyses of contract and non-contract budgetary and financial requirements and trends, balancing requirements against the budget.
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Participate in establishing and defining program plan requirements; develop budgets and spend plans; and monitor and report performance against plans to meet contractual, cost and schedule objectives and requirements.
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Exhibit detailed understanding of the project’s budget execution and status and be prepared to brief the execution status to leadership and/or support senior leadership briefings through the creation of budget summaries, charts, memoranda, issue papers and talking points.
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Collaborate with Contracting Officer Technical Representatives/CLIN managers to accurately fund government contracts and recommend options to fund high-priority mission essential projects.
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Identify and convey resource trade- offs within and among competing programs and propose resource realignments or other solutions to the Budget Director and site leadership to maintain program execution or to respond to unplanned circumstances.
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Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and works with technical planners and contract managers to apply critical problem solving skills on complex issues.
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Assist in the design, implementation, and use of corporate resource information repositories, databases, decision support tools, strategies, processes, procedures and reports to ensure accurate financial reporting and management oversight in support of program initiatives.
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Maintain appropriate internal controls to minimize data inaccuracy and/or unauthorized use of NRO funds.
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Consolidate and review program level unfunded requirements, recommending changes and prioritization to senior management.
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Review final program level Tri-Annual Unliquidated Obligation review inputs and documentation for completeness prior to submission.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
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Clearance to be able to remain on the program: TS/SCI with Polygraph.
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Complete understanding and wide application of federal and agency-specific principles, concepts, practices, and standards, to include an understanding of the Federal Appropriations Law.
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Experience on NRO Financial systems and tools.
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Ability to learn and proficiently utilize multiple financial systems and tools to properly account for budget plans, requirements, transfers, and to complete any transaction necessary to facilitate budget execution.
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Ability to work in a dynamic budget environment which requires balancing competing priorities and critical schedules.
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Critical thinking and ability to work well with a wide variety of customers requesting financial data.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; or Master and thirteen (13) years or more of related experience; or PhD and ten (10) years or more of related experience.
Target salary range: $140,001 - $180,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618930
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 561 open Budget Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$140–180K/yr
- Virginia median$100–158K/yr64 salary ranges
- US median$82–115K/yr344 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $160K, is 27% above the Virginia median midpoint ($126K) — in the middle half of Budget Analyst salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 103 open Budget Analyst jobs in Virginia and 561 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Serco20 open
- SAIC (this employer)8 open
- CACI International6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Budget Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 478 postings).
- Education
- 173 of the 561 open Budget Analyst jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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