Program Analyst with Budget & Finance Expertise

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SHANDANH THOMAS

Program Analyst

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced financial management professional with strong work ethic, critical thinking skills, and solid communication abilities. Expertise in budget management, financial analysis, and program coordination. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

PROGRAM ANALYST/GS13 Dec 2022 - Present

U. S. Department of Homeland Security

Assist the Budget Chief in managing day to day budget deliverables and execution operations that provide oversight for OSA mission requirements and budgetary needs.

• Serve as Purchase Card Program Manager, providing internal control management of the purchase card program with process improvement, guidelines and procedures, audit and review, reconciliation, and training for all OSA card holders, approvers, and authorizers within the Purchase Card Program, ensuring total compliance of the DHS Program with the General Services Administration SmartPay Program

• Maintain the Transit Benefit Program for OSA employees as Program Coordinator, ensure all participants are accurately utilizing and maximizing the transient and travel monthly benefits by informing stakeholders on monthly internal communications on all WMATA, VRE, MTA, and Metro access schedules, fares, changes, and other updates to ensure effective use of program.

• Interpret legislative language, OMB guidelines and directives, and policies to identify the impacts to funding levels and program viability as Budget Analyst during the Budget formulation process, respond to deliverables with quantitative narratives during the budgetary formulation process, maintain and respond timely on all concurrences and track all status.

• Analyze monthly and quarterly Financial Management Health Assessment (FMHA) as the CPOPC, identify root causes of any issues and actions taken to remediate a situation, provide a corrective action plan(CAP) when necessary, address and train any issues to cardholders or authorizers and establish a remedy

• Brief and perform all financial status at executive and congressional leadership level, produce congressional justifications and OMB submissions by performing budgetary assessments for organizational divisions to include payroll processing and financial transactions, optimizing all program opportunities for full budget execution.

• Represent OSA during the Department’s Budget Officer Meeting, receive requests for information from appropriations committees passed down, disseminate all info to OSA leadership and provide all get-backs in a timely manner, track all deliverables resulting from briefings, and reviews and clear all responses through all leadership both written and orally.

• Served as Acting Budget Chief, provided day to day budget deliverables to OSA leadership and correspondences throughout the department, assisted 4 other personnel with procurement, obligations, travel, and purchase spending authorities, ensured the Budget and Acquisition Office maintained its duties to organize financial data and provide problem solving solutions to the entire OSA component.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST/GS7 GS12 Aug 2016 - Dec 2022 Department of Air Force

Active Resource Advisor for Supply Program offices while managing the financial budget of their programs and providing all financial data and transactions for all financial systems and maintain the records of all obligations.

• Served as Resource Advisor for the 409th MXN, managed a $5M budget, organized and monitor all financial transactions and obligations by providing weekly financial status reports, assisted with budget forecasts, and audits, successfully clearing and maintaining closeout yearly with zero complications.

• Provided guidance on all Budget phases from formulation to execution, served as Subject Matter Expert (SME), coordinated and controlled all budgeting and reporting processes to ensure accuracy and alignment with strategic goals and fiscal year requirements.

• Performed financial analysis as RA for stakeholders, utilizing data in prioritizing needs of the mission by planning activities and resources, briefed the Chief Financial Officer to ensure all targets are being measured, performance results reflected highly in Monthly status reports.

• Completed my Level 2 certification, completed the hours required to meet the cert level to require Financial Management mid-level management status.

SUPPLY TECHNICIAN GS-7 Jul 2014 - Aug 2016

Anniston Army Depot

• Served as Supply Technician, managed, organized, distributed supplies within an organization, ensured process orders was accounted for, and accurately managed the status of tracking the stock in the supply system and managed the control tracking system for status update to brief leadership.

• Prepared reports and communicated with vendors to obtain the best prices and quality for supplies, distribution warehouse for Supply Chain and government vendors, maintain inventory of all supplies in stock and provided monthly inventory logs for audit purposes.

DISTRIBUTION PROCESS WORKER WG-6 Oct 2012 - Nov 2014 Warner Robins Distribution

Process and distribution of stock shelf, stock selection, research and inventory, material handling, examining, identifying, and packing of government materials and classification of distribution processing. Ensuring shelf life of material. EDUCATION

MBA IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP 2013

Columbia Southern University Orange Beach, AL

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 2013

University of Phoenix Atlanta, GA

COURSES

CFO EXECUTIVE POTENTIAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM 2024

Grad School USA

SKILLS

Budget Management, Financial Analysis, Program Management, Leadership, Communication, Critical Thinking, Supply Chain, Procurement, Inventory Management, Security Clearance. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

SECURITY CLEARANCE

TS/SCI Security Clearance

AWARDS

MSD Employee of the Year (2023)

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