John Barclay Luttrell

• Budget Officer responsible for providing advice and assistance to 1AD staff sections and Brigade commanders (subcommands) in the development of budgets and supporting documentation for $700M training requirements.
• Work with Resource Management Officer to provide operational direction for 1AD and the overall execution and training budget for soldiers.
• Draft procedural instructions and policy guidance for 1AD units and staff which helps in the planning and estimating of funding for upcoming training requirements, which includes staffing, travel, supplies, equipment, transportation and contracts.
• Provide branch and divisional support to all 1AD units to help provide direction on specific projects, programs and training events for upcoming fiscal year.
• Oversees, directs, reviews and edits budget spend plans for out-year and long-term estimates for all assigned organizations within 1AD, which is then consolidated into working and finalized budget requests.
• Review and edits requests, submitted from all staff and organizations, to ensure the funding amounts conform to all major command requirements, prior to submission to FORSCOM.
• Supervise and direct the overall budget accomplishments of all command programs to ensure each unit and staff department stays within their budgeted funding requirements for the current fiscal year which ensures proper funding is in place for training, deployment, redeployment and sustainment.
• Review and interpret documents pushed down to 1AD level and provide budget adjustments which focus funding on new training requirements that may change
• Ensure that analysis is completed on budgets with all organization which helps to assess changing requirements that could affect readiness, mission accomplishments, overall training, mobilization, deployment and re-deployment efforts.
• Help formulate guidance and recommendations for funds distribution, Commands withhold account, any funding for new requirements which is then presented to Command for approval
• Present findings for the distribution of funds at the yearly Program Budget and Review board to validate and verify that all requirements are within established training guidelines and fall within command level support.
• Identifies and analyzes budget trends to ensure command resources and objectives are accomplished within the scope of the command goals.
• Identify resource concerns, that arise and carefully review and make funding adjustments to divert those resources to new and upcoming requirements as needed.
• As a Budget Officer, I monitor all execution for 1AD and ensure that all transactions are properly recorded within the correct financial systems and that all funding resources are properly allocated within the current year budget and spend plan guidance.
• Supervise seven full-time budget analysts and ensure they are properly trained to perform budgeting duties and follow current and updated financial regulations, as per Headquarter guidance.
• Provide guidance and assign work duties to all employees and ensure that analysts are completing tasks timely and correctly.
• Review and accept all work completed by employees to ensure that assigned tasks are submitted and completed accurately and within proper time constraints.
• Establish performance elements for employees and reviews and evaluates their job performance as laid out in their assigned duties tasks.
• Periodically review all worker position descriptions to ensure that the work they are focusing and producing aligns correctly to their daily duties and tasks.
• Discipline and counsel employees if duties, tasks and attitude are not in alignment with the 1AD and Command policy expectations for success.
• Recommend awards for employees for outstanding performance to the Command Staff and G8 for approval, so that employees benefit from their accomplishments and 1AD can maintain a high level of moral
• Supervisor: Jaime Jimenez Jr.
• Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

Supervisory Budget Analyst responsible for implementing, monitoring and reporting all reimbursable program guidance for IMCOM HQ's.

• Drafts procedural instructions and policy guidance for use in planning and estimating funding needs for staffing, travel, supplies, equipment, rents, transportation and contracts.
• Prepares or edits narrative justifications for projected funding needs and assures data in requests is formally an accurately documented in a wide variety of unrelated forms, schedules and reports.
• Reviews and edits budget requests to ensure they conform to major command requirements prior to submission to IMCOM.
• Serve as subject matter expert on all budget related areas and budget related processes.
• Supervise four budget analysts, providing advice, guidance and counseling to all employees on all work-related matters involving proper management of funds.
• Plan work schedules, explaining work requirements and providing instructions on difficult tasks and setting deadlines for all technical work.
• Approve leave, overtime, compensatory time and other absences.
• Establishes performance standards, reviews employee performance and evaluates performance against standards in order to help complete performance appraisals.
• Approves or recommends awards to senior level rater for review.
• Interviews and selects new or promotable employees to fill vacancies and recommend assignments or promotions.
• Weekly meetings are held, for all employees, to identify areas of weakness and to identify programs that need improvement within our budget operation.
• Inform my employees that I have an open-door policy and will be available to answer any questions for concerns they have about their jobs or if they have any grievances or serious complaints, that can't be resolved at a lower level.
• Responsible for providing guidance to the Resource Manager and to all Base Support Directors to ensure the availability of funding requirements are established and provided to IMCOM HQs prior to the beginning of the next fiscal year.
• This action guarantees that all Directorates have the funding needed for their organizational mission capabilities, which will guarantee that there are no interruptions in services needed to perform their daily activities.
• I have budget experience operating within General Funds Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) and Defense and Accounting Service (DFAS).
• Main responsibilities include implementation, monitoring and reporting of Ft. Bliss Foreign Military Sales (FMS) financial operations to ensure German and Japanese forces have adequate funds for their Annual Service Practice (ASP) training.
• Interpreting financial management regulations, policies and budget guidance specific to both programs and ensuring compliance with all statutory and regulatory guidance.
• Engaged in statistical analysis is required to identify trends in current and historical data, which will aid and provide valuable feedback to management and staff.
• Feedback is communicated in quarterly meetings to ensure programs and budgets are within fiscal year targets.
• Certifying and obligating funds, monitoring earnings, commitments and obligation rates, as well as establishing an effective working relationship with all functional POC's are also maximized for program execution.
• Open lines of communication also must be maintained with the Security and Assistance Training Field Activity (SATFA) to ensure the timely flow of FMS funds, preparing monthly budget reports, briefings and presenting recommendations and/or solutions to problems that arise.
• Responsible for providing guidance and expertise for funding which supports the entire Ft. Bliss Base Operations program.
• Ensuring all contracts, MIPR's, FMZ's, DTS, Fund Control, Miscellaneous payments and all other aspects of operation are completed in a timely manner to ensure operations in all directorates are supported and operating smoothly.
• Conduct cost analysis and make financial improvements for all areas of the budget. I also help manage and process all new and existing Support Agreements for all customers.
• Involved in running the Fund Status report in GFEBS.
• Reports are compiled from both GFEBS and IOL and then merged to produce a daily snapshot of the overall financial health of the organization.
• BFAM adjustments are researched to determine the amount of funds received from HQs for fiscal year processes. Once received, I help perform FMBB transactions, which moves funding to the appropriate Army and SAG levels for each analyst.
• This information helps the organization better track how funding is being used for the betterment of the installation. This requires continuous research in GFEBS and Electronic Document Access (EDA) systems to determine if contracts have been fully disbursed or if funds need to be returned.
• Responsible for communicating with MICC to properly close out current and prior year contracts.
• Joint Review is also performed to ensure accounts do not have any Un-liquidated Obligations (ULO's) or Un-Matched Disbursements (UMD's).
• BI reports are processed in GFEBS, to obtain Accounts Receivable data to gather a more detailed snapshot of all accounts and funds that have not been fully committed, obligated, expensed and disbursed. These types of reports help provide relevant and timely managerial accounting support for all Federal and Non-Federal customers, for the proper closing and reduction of funds, that are due to expire.
• These financial documents also help the RMO with future planning, design and implementation of the entire financial accounting.
• Supervisor: Carlos Castillo Jr. (works for USACE)
• Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes