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Programming Planning Budget Execution Analyst

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Compensation
$200–240K/yr
Location
El Segundo, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS Or SSBI InvestigationBachelor's degree

Job overview

SAIC seeks a Programming Planning Budgeting Execution Analyst to support the U.S. Space Force’s Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power portfolio and a new surveillance satellite system in El Segundo, California. The analyst will manage financial plans and execution reviews, support acquisition and budget processes, and coordinate with program stakeholders. The role requires extensive DoD PPBE and PPBS experience, acquisition and program management expertise, and an in-scope security investigation adjudicated for SCI eligibility.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

DoD PPBEDoD PPBSAcquisition ManagementProgram ManagementSatellite AcquisitionsPOMFYDP Defense GuidanceUFR and UPLASPJoint Strategic Planning SystemsWritten CommunicationOral CommunicationMS OfficeMS ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointBudgetary MethodsInformation Analysis

Qualifications

18+ Years DoD PPBE and PPBS ExperienceTS or SSBI InvestigationSCI EligibilityContinuous Evaluation EnrollmentSCI and SAP Access NominationPolygraph Consent

Full job description

Description

SAIC's Horizon 2 program is seeking our latest Programming Planning Budgeting Execution Analyst to work a new surveillance satellite system for the US Space Force in El Segundo, CA . This is an exciting new position for the development of over 10 satellite vehicles over the next 5-10 years. You will serve as a subject matter expert in support to the U.S. Space Force (USSF) in developing and deploying warfighter capabilities within the Program Executive Office's Space Domain Awareness and Combat Power portfolio.

As our Programming Planning Budgeting Execution Analyst, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and executing financial plans, execution reviews, Program Objective Memorandum (POM) inputs, financial excursions, baseline and midterm execution reviews, and congressional taskers. Ensuring compliance with government standards, program requirements, and government financial criteria. You will interact and coordinate daily with numerous stakeholders (Program Managers, Contracting Officers, System Engineers, and external/partner organizations). If you have experience in program management of government programs this is the role for you.

Fun stuff on the job you will do:

  • Oversee and manage the operational aspects of new and ongoing projects and serve as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management

  • Manage financial resourcing for current and future DoD acquisition programs with diverse funding types including Procurement, Research and Development, and Operations and Maintenance, using the DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution (PPBE) process

  • Assist in the development and coordination of Program Objective Memorandum (POM) inputs, Unfunded Requirements (UFR) / Unfunded Priority Lists (UPL), and Acquisition Strategy Panel (ASP) documentation

  • Assist in production and management of contract actions (RFP through award and execution)

  • Help plan acquisition strategies for various projects ranging from tech developments to full Programs of Record (PoR)

  • Coordinate financial issues, tasks, and requests for senior leader decision and information briefings

  • Develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients

  • Coordinate with subject matter experts to identify and refine budgetary estimates

  • Coordinate and attend financial management meetings and reviews

  • Participate in budget queries & prepare financial status reports

  • Perform budget execution and administration work involving monitoring current year and prior year obligations incurred and actual expenditures of budgets

  • Perform budget formulation work involving preparation of detailed analyses and estimates of funding needs for one or more budget years

Qualifications

This is you:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration or management, finance, accounting, or a related field with 18+ years of experience in the DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process and the DoD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Systems (PPBS)

  • Extensive acquisition and program management experience, particularly in satellite acquisitions on DoD (SSC) or NRO programs

  • Knowledge of Program Objective Memorandum (POM), Future Year Defense Plan (FYDP) Defense Guidance, Unfunded Requirements (UFR) and Unfunded Priority Lists (UPL), Acquisition Strategy Panel (ASP), and Joint Strategic Planning Systems

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

  • Advanced skills with MS Office tools particularly MS Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

  • Knowledge of commonly used budgetary methods, practices, procedures, regulations, policies, and processes

  • Skill in gathering, assembling, and analyzing information, such as in accounting reports, payroll records, work reports, or inventory and supply data

  • Must have an in-scope security background investigation (TS or SSBI), adjudicated for SCI eligibility and enrolled in the Continuous Evaluation program (if applicable)

  • Must be willing to be nominated for access to Sensitive Compartment Information and Special Access Programs and willing to consent to a Polygraph examination

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618538

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 645 open Budget Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$200–240K/yr
  • California median$94–133K/yr22 salary ranges
  • US median$80–117K/yr379 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $220K, is 99% above the California median midpoint ($111K) — in the top quarter of Budget Analyst salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 38 open Budget Analyst jobs in California and 645 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 18 years of experience — more than three in four Budget Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 552 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 247 of the 645 open Budget Analyst jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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