Mircea Musca

Duties and Accomplishments:

• Perform budget formulation involving independent assessments and preparation of complex detailed analyses, budget estimates, special reports.

• Utilize expertise to assemble prior, current, and future year budget/program data then formulates, analyzes, modifies, and interprets funding requirements to ensure consistency with policies, regulations, and DoD directives.

• Oversaw 12K prior year docs recon; reduced outstanding obligations by $300Kprevented AMC (Army Contracting Command) contract default w/in 24 hours.

• Lobbied f/additional funds; accelerated $1.1M facility IT contracts, utilized current funds liquidated ACC FY24 Integrated Priority List IPL requirements.

• Develop detailed programming and financial planning justification and documentation for inclusion in the Program Objectives Memorandum (POM) and Five-Year Defense Program (FYDP) budget submissions.

• Developed DTS (Defense Travel System) & GTC (Government Travel Card) "how-to" for the entire 409th Contracting Command Brigade; ACC benchmarked training GTC delinquencies reduced to less than 1% to beat ACC standard.

• Led and mentored multiple military and civilian teams across budget and travel career field; supported professional development/leadership opportunities resulting in multiple awards.

• Serve as a consultant to management on issues such as: budgeting strategies and techniques; use of financial management products; resource distribution; forecasts and projections; and development of annual and long-range financial plans.

https://www.army.mil/acc/

Duties and Accomplishments:

• Planned, formulated, programmed, and executed the budget for assigned DLA Europe & Africa logistics programs as the primary Program Budget Review (PBR) Analyst. Programs included managing an annual $5M non-labor operational budget and $6M labor operational budget across 11 geographically separated installations and 5 countries.

• Acted as the senior Management and Program Analyst, overseeing $11M in Annual Operating Budget (AOB) through Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR), funding memos and service contracts, monitoring Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) and Support Agreements with Air Force, Army and Navy and ensured funding annex is intact with scope of work; executed funding via SAP EBS.

• Served as a financial technical adviser in support role between DLA Europe & Africa and DLA Headquarters, provided sound financial and budgetary advice to management, developed standard operating procedures, and educated supervisors on budget development, execution, and reporting.

• As a Lead Defense Travel System Administrator (LDTA), resolved issues with current financial and business systems relevant to Temporary Duty Travel authorization and voucher certification process ensured administration of Defense Travel System requirements.

• Served as a financial consultant to management on issues such as budgeting strategies and techniques, use of financial management products, resource distribution, program priorities, financial forecasts and projections, and development of annual and long-range financial plans.

https://www.dla.mil/Europe-and-Africa/

Duties and Accomplishments:

• Served as the Budget Analyst for the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing/Air Mobility Command spanning 5,135 miles, supporting two geographically separated Groups (521st & 721st) and eight enduring/two expeditionary Squadrons.

• Supported 11 Budget Analysts/Resource Advisors $78M Transportation Working Capital Fund; $5M Operations and Maintenance budgets.

• Provided sound financial advice to 11 Budget Analysts/Resource Advisors at the Group and Squadron level.

• Executed $78M TWCF -Working Capital and $5M O&M (Operations & Management; 1 year appropriation) budget enabling 5K missions/24K passengers/19K tons of cargo.

• Successfully balanced monthly budget to reflect AMC balance per type of funding (TWCF Transportation Working Capital Fund & O&M Operations & Management), system (Legacy & Oracle DEAMS), Budget Activity, Budget Program Activity Code (BPAC) and Program Element Code (PEC).

• Acted as Southern Group - 521 AMOG - Resource Advisor, providing financial and technical support to Commanders to assure necessary actions are taken to stay within the budget and accomplish the mission.

• Championed $432K deployed facility upgrade for two expeditionary Squadrons; financed $1.2M airport scanners upgrade supporting 24K passengers.

• Oversaw Triannual Review Audit Program prior year docs reconciliation program; reduced outstanding obligations by $650K.

• Entered, analyzed and reported all the financial data in Oracle/DEAMS ERP

https://www.521amow.af.mil/

Duties and Accomplishments:

• Supported 1,200 active duty members, 270 civilians, 15,000 sortie flying hours, 400+ student pilots each year.

• Served as a Budget Analyst for the Air Education & Training Command (AETC)/71ST Flying Training Wing (FTW) supporting 1,200 active duty members, 270 civilians, 15,000 sortie flying hours, 400+ student pilots each year.

• Performed budget execution and administration work ($124M annual budget) involving the monitoring of commitments, obligations and actual expenditures incurred with different sources and types of funding (direct, reimbursable, one, multi and no-year appropriations).

• Solely oversaw Vance AFBs BOS (Base Operations Support) & FOS (Flight Operations Support) contracts - $78M annual contract awarded to PAE and L-3 Communications: consolidated and reported of contract costs, certified Form 9s/PRs, monitored of commitment ceiling, tracked invoices and followed up on the approval cycle.

• Resolved government/contractors issues w/financial policy and attended partnering meeting and managed day to day contract questions and issues.

• Supervised Vance AFBs Funds Distribution Program ($124M) received from AETC (Air Education and Training Command) and AFIMSC (Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center); allocated the funds to assigned program areas.

• Lobbied for additional funds during Emergency and Continuing Resolution funding; accelerated $3.6M facility contracts.

• Prepared a variety of financial reports for AETC Contracting office, Operations Group and OCO commanders, led the accounting year-end closing procedures and implemented instructions with cutoff dates for transaction postings.

• Reviewed financial reports, documents, records, data, or other materials to verify completeness, accuracy, consistency and authenticity.

• Advised management on budget policy, implementation and reporting of budget process and the best use of their financial resources.

• Developed and implemented a framework for institutional performance management, which includes providing higher level staff with information for decision making.

https://www.vance.af.mil/

Duties and Accomplishments:

• Performed budget formulation, justification and execution for a $28.5M Operations & Management (O&M) annual budget, supporting 7 Civilian Personnel Advisory Centers (CPAC) and over 26,000 appropriated fund, non-appropriated fund, and Local National civilian employees throughout Europe.

• Reviewed budget requests submitted by subordinate organizational components to ensure compliance with governing rules, regulations, policies and procedures.

• Provided a full range of financial services for CHRAE; development of budgets and financial plans, control of commitments, obligations and expenditures, and administration of US and Local National payroll.

• Championed over $375K in cost cutting in FY13 by reducing Transportation Motor Pool contracts, IT Support and TDYs, due to Heidelberg CPAC closure.

• Supported $1.2M Maintenance-focused budget; procured new IT refresh equipment - increased reliability rate.

• Assisted CHRA-E Resource Management Office (RMO) in planning and decision-making by analyzing financial aspects of various programs so that higher level staff officers can determine the best use of limited resources.