CPD Financial Program Analyst

Job Description
Job Description:

George Consulting is seeking a CPD Financial Program Analyst to support NIPO Japan Program at the Washington Navy Yard.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Our Program Analysts support different groups and where each will have different focuses. As this supports an Echelon 2 Activity, Program Analysts are expected to be able to contextualize information in terms of how they support strategic and regional national security objectives, such as those in Combatant Commander Theater Security Cooperation Plans or Department of State regional initiatives. Additionally, information needs to be presented to different audiences, to include SES and Flag Officer level, and various DoD and Department of State officials, to obtain buy-in and concurrence.


The Program Analyst responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Support Department of the Navy (DoN) and Department of Defense (DoD) Security Cooperation (SC), Security Assistance (SA) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) assessments, staff organization, and administrative requirements.
• Able to work independently with limited direction and be self-motivated.
• Able to work with other contractor teammates and customers daily.
• Able to work closely with customers to ensure deliverables meet their expectations and arrive in a timely manner.
• Attend and actively participate in team meetings.
• Understanding Program Analysts in IPO -02 Regional Branches
• Our Program Analysts in IPO-02 Regional Branches CPD and BPC Leads. Country Program Directors (CPDs) and BPC Leads at Navy IPO are Navy Officers and Civil Servants that act as official Points of Contact for the US Navy to foreign governments for FMS. Our analysts provide them administrative, analytic, and management support specific to internal and enterprise-wide FMS case development, management, and administration.
• Provide direct support to specific country program directors, managing the case portfolio and responding to executive level issues and concerns.
• Primary focus of this opening is to Assist CPD in driving implemented cases to successful case closure, by Investigate and resolve issues relating to Case Closure, Supply Service Complete (SSC), unresolved Supply Discrepancy Reports (SDRs), Shipping and Billing.
• Support discussions between Acquisition Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) and the program offices in identifying SSC cases that can be reduced to the highest financial value twice a year. Case Reconciliation Review (CRR) and follow up in another meeting. This is to be tracked throughout the year.
• Support discussion between ATLA and the SDR office in identifying unresolved SDR issues twice a year (CRR and follow up in another meeting - tracked throughout the year)
• Work with ATLA on Shipping and Billing issues and ensuring the correct organization or taking proper actions. Involvement will be to foster communication and proper action; however, the action will need to still be taken by program office.
• Support Case Closure and SSC issues and questions that are raised by ATLA at monthly meetings.
• Additional duties as Needed and part of the CPD's Team:
• Assist CPDs and BPC leads in the Case development process, from receipt of Letter of Request (LOR) to issuance of an Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), Pricing and Availability (P&A) or Lease Agreement. This includes both entering individual requests in the system and tracking their progress against target metrics at both individual and aggregate levels, and coordinating with case managers at Case Administering Offices (CAOs) on their completion.
• Develop and provide insight for CPDs and regional divisions on case execution performance at the portfolio-level (Country and Region) and case closure targets for completed cases.
• Support the development and maintenance of analytic products, including country summary papers, engagement sheets, information papers, and briefs.
• Provide statistics and metrics to support analysis and management of security assistance activities.
• Provide advice, analysis, counsel, coordination, and prepare technical papers and briefs regarding areas such as meetings and conferences (i.e., Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Security Assistance Management Reviews (SAMRs), Case Management Reviews (CMRs), and Case Reconciliation Reviews (CRRs)).
• Provide advice and support regarding DoN level reporting requirements and prepare assigned reports (i.e., monthly Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) reports, internal Navy IPO products, annual FMS Forecast Reports, and other related quantitative and qualitative reports.
• Support Navy IPO customer engagements, presentations and client meetings, as required.
• Daily interface with the Navy IPO client to support the completion of specific tasks of a project within estimated timeframes and budget constraints.
• Attend and maintain minutes for FMS enterprise activities and high-level meetings for the CPD.
• Provide inputs to strategic plans, regional and country summaries, command briefs, process desk guides and other handbooks, metrics reporting, and other internal and external communications documents.


THIS POSITION REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN AN ACTIVE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE.

Required Skills & Experience:
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience with DoD Financial and Contract Management Systems, including DIFS, MOCAS and WAWF
• Experience with Navy Financial and Contract Management Systems, including Navy ERP. Preferred if also experienced with MISIL and Information Warehouse
• Experience with the nuances of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case Execution and Closure Processes
• Excellent communication skills to include


o Professional communication requesting inputs from dotted-line entities and following up on them


o Ability to learn and apply cross-cultural understanding when present and participating in engagements with other countries


o Comfort working across different IT systems to move a product through different parts of a complex process, and connecting the dots across them to track progress of single product


o Skill in crafting presentations to senior government decision makers
• Ability to interact with other cultures; Experience interacting with Japanese culture and with Japanese language
• Willingness to be on-site at Washington Navy Yard (WNY) 2 to 3 days per week, and travel to other government offices, including DSCA, OSD and echelon 2 and 3 activities; Occasional travel to supported foreign countries.
• Portfolio Management Skills
• Project Management Skills