Capital Planning Business Analyst (SME) – Senior Management Analyst

Role Summary:
The PWS explicitly lists Capital Planning SME as part of Task 1 resources. This Key Personnel ensures CPIC processes are accurate and compliant, which is reflective in the FPAC IT Portfolio health scores. Estimated two Capital Planning Analysts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops and validates business cases, artifacts, and data supporting investment health, performance, and departmental reviews.
• Analyzes spend plan and contract data to correctly align investment projects.
• Ensures EVM approaches align with traditional and agile development models.
• Drafts AAR Cover Memos and completes AAR shells in AgMAX 2.0.

Recommended Qualifications:

• 2+ years of CPIC experience with federal programs. USDA experience preferred.
• Possess the ability to communicate with all levels of IT and Business (SME to senior-level) within an organization to capture information for IT Portfolio business cases and develop work products such as investment charters, operational analyses, analysis of alternatives, risk management plans, and technical studies in support of the USDA Capital Planning process.
• Experience developing corrective action plans to address USDA OCIO investment business case feedback and partner with clients to remediate items identified.
• Experience in Acquisition Approval Request process (USDA experience highly preferred): Drafting Cover Memos; performing detailed analysis of spend plan to identify AAR requirements; analyzing details of Spend Plan to identify AAR requirements; maintaining AAR SharePoint libraries and daily submittal of AAR status report for leadership; and creating and completing AAR shells in AgMAX 2.0.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management (project performance measurement, forecasting, and variance analysis).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including business and technical writing skills.