Program Manager (Senior), Federal WCF IT Financial Management

Role Description

This is a remote position.

BizFirst is assisting our client with recruiting a skilled and experienced Program Manager (Senior), Federal WCF IT Financial Management. This position supports the following program: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST), Working Capital Fund (WCF), Office of Financial Management (OFM) — WCF IT Financial Management, Cost Model Development, and Systems Integration Support.

What will you do:

• Lead a nine-person delivery team supporting the financial management of DOT's IT shared-services Working Capital Fund:
• Cost model development and modernization
• Systems integration and automation
• Monthly billing and revenue management
• Customer transparency reporting
• Data analytics
• Financial operating-model support across nine contract functional areas
• You are the single point of contact to Government leadership and own delivery quality in an environment with formal Acceptable Quality Level (AQL) standards.
• This role rewards a PM who runs quality gates before submission, protects a demanding monthly billing calendar, and communicates precisely with executives.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary point of contact to the Contracting Officer, COR, and WCF leadership; lead program kickoff within two business days of award.
• Direct and integrate the work of cost modeling SMEs, financial analysts, a data/integration engineer, an automation developer, and a BI/dashboard developer across all nine functional areas.
• Build and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS): initial baseline within 30 days of award, weekly internal updates, monthly formal submissions capturing critical path, dependencies, and delivery gates.
• Maintain a live RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) with named assignees and active mitigations; support bi-weekly COR reviews.
• Deliver executive status briefings by the 5th business day of each month with executive-ready, 100% accurate, reconciled content.
• Enforce deliverable quality against contract AQL standards; run pre-submission peer review and validation gates; manage remediation of any rejected deliverable within three business days.
• Track, verify, and report productive performance hours by position CLIN under a fixed labor-hour structure, segregating billable productive effort from unbillable rework.
• Protect the monthly financial operations calendar (billing files by the 3rd business day; allocation outputs by the 5th; reconciliations and dashboard refreshes by the 10th).
• Enforce scope discipline: ensure no team member performs inherently governmental functions, makes staffing decisions, or participates in IT consolidation governance determinations.
• Route gray-zone technical direction to the COR for written confirmation.
• Manage Key Personnel change control, subcontractor oversight (if any), and transition/knowledge-transfer commitments that keep all products Government-owned and transferable.

Qualifications

• Security Clearance: Public Trust or the ability to obtain one.
• Candidates whose experience is limited to advisory, strategic, or conceptual consulting will not meet this program's bar.
• The client explicitly requires demonstrated, hands-on implementation experience — deployed cost models, executed billing cycles, delivered automations, and operational financial products.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Management, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience, including 5+ years managing complex federal financial management or IT shared-services programs.
• Demonstrated delivery under formal quality surveillance (AQL/QASP-style regimes, deliverable acceptance, performance-based contracts).
• Experience managing federal contract mechanics: IMS, RAID/risk management, CLIN-level hours accounting, deliverable schedules, COR/CO relationships.
• Excellent executive communication — briefings, status reporting, and issue escalation with senior Government stakeholders.

Desired Skills

• PMP certification (highly preferred by the client).
• Direct experience with federal Working Capital Funds, revolving funds, or fee-for-service shared-services organizations.
• Familiarity with the DOT enterprise environment (Delphi, PRISM, ServiceNow, Oracle EPM, Power BI) or comparable federal ERP/ITSM stacks.
• Experience leading teams that pair financial/accounting work with data engineering and automation delivery.

Benefits

• Family Health Care (54% cost covered for the entire family)
• Family Dental (54% cost covered for the entire family)
• Family Vision (54% cost covered for the entire family)
• Flexible Spending Account
• Overutilization bonuses for Time and Materials (T&M) contracts
• Lifetime Event Bonuses (e.g., child, marriage)
• Profit-sharing arrangement for any work brought into the company
• Unlimited Leave with Approval
• 401k 100% employer match on first 4% invested
• $1,000 training budget