Functional Budget SME

This role ensures that functional requirements are accurately captured, designed, tested, and implemented to support the client’s financial management, budgeting, and forecasting needs. 

• Provide federal budgeting expertise 

• validate requirements against client business processes 

• develop and execute test scripts and document test results 

• prepare training guides and lead train-the-trainer sessions 

• support post-production user outreach and adoption. 

• Support the design, development, testing, and maintenance of SAP-based Budget and Spend solutions. 

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, ensuring alignment with client financial processes and BAS solution capabilities. 

• Participate in gap analysis, requirements workshops, and functional enhancements for Spend Planning, Salaries & Benefits, and Budget Authority Management modules. 

• Provide guidance on Federal Spend Plan processes, ensuring solutions support accurate forecasting, variance analysis, and compliance requirements. 

• Support client agencies in developing detailed spend plans, personnel cost forecasting, and budget authority management aligned with governance requirements. 

• Develop and execute unit test plans, validate system functionality, and resolve issues in collaboration with technical teams. 

• Support client-led Quality Assurance Testing (QAT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring functional requirements are fully validated. 

• Conduct functional design walkthroughs, configuration reviews, and training sessions for client stakeholders and power users. 

• Provide functional expertise during onboarding of new agencies into the BAS system, including configuration, data integration, and reporting. 

• Ensure knowledge transfer to client federal staff to build internal capacity and sustainment capabilities. 

• Collaborate with technical SMEs to implement web services and interfaces with SAP ECC/S4 HANA and other client systems. 

• Develop and validate reports, dashboards, and analytics to meet agency-specific needs while ensuring enterprise consistency.