Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

The One 23 Group is seeking a Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to support CFO-led financial initiatives and perform hands-on government contracting finance activities across contract compliance, indirect rates, project accounting, billing, labor allocation, financial close support, forecasting, and reporting. This is a high-visibility role for a mid-level professional who combines a strong accounting foundation with the ability to analyze contract and business performance.

The Specialist will work closely with the CFO, Corporate Controller, Accounting, Program Control, Contracts, Human Resources, Project Managers, and company leadership. The role requires someone who can move comfortably between detailed financial data, government contract requirements, recurring accounting processes, and executive-level analysis while maintaining accurate, timely, and well-supported financial information.

Requirements

Contract Billing and Project Financial Management

• Prepare, review, and submit invoices for cost-reimbursement, Time and Materials (T&M), and Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contracts using required customer portals and delivery methods.

• Validate billed hours, labor categories, approved billing rates, subcontractor costs, travel, other direct costs, and fees against contract requirements and supporting records; reconcile billed and unbilled amounts to Unanet and accounting records.

• Maintain billing schedules and invoice support, resolve rejected invoices and customer questions, and coordinate with Accounting on collections and receivable discrepancies.

• Monitor revenue, margin, labor and non-labor costs, funding, contract ceilings, periods of performance, burn rates, backlog, and billing status; identify issues and coordinate resolution with the appropriate teams.

• Support estimates to complete (ETC), estimates at completion (EAC), contract forecasts, funding requirements, and project variance analysis; explain material changes and emerging contract financial risks.

Unanet and Timekeeping Administration

• Set up and maintain projects, tasks, charge codes, employee assignments, labor categories, billing rates, funding, periods of performance, and billing configurations in Unanet.

• Update project records for new awards, contract modifications, option periods, approved rate changes, and staffing changes; maintain effective dates and supporting documentation.

• Monitor timesheet submission and approval, investigate labor-charging discrepancies, and coordinate documented corrections through approved workflows with employees, managers, HR, and Accounting.

• Maintain user access and approval routing within assigned authority; provide routine Unanet support and train employees and managers on timekeeping and project processes.

• Maintain accurate direct and indirect charge structures, review labor and expense classifications, reconcile system data, and document recurring setup and administration procedures.

Proposal Pricing and Financial Modeling

• Build and maintain Excel pricing models for proposals, task orders, contract modifications, and internal planning, including multiyear and option-period pricing.

• Model direct labor, productive hours, fringe, overhead, G&A, subcontractor costs, travel, other direct costs, escalation, and fee or profit using appropriate allocation bases and approved assumptions.

• Map proposed positions to applicable contract and contract-vehicle labor categories, including GSA Schedule and other IDIQ categories; validate qualifications and rate limits with Contracts and proposal teams.

• Prepare staffing scenarios, sensitivity analyses, and margin comparisons; translate solicitation pricing instructions into pricing tables, supporting schedules, and documentation for leadership review.

• Review formulas, rate applications, assumptions, and reconciliation of pricing totals; maintain version control and traceable support for model inputs.

Government Contract Financial Compliance

• Coordinate and prepare incurred cost submission schedules and supporting documentation, including indirect cost pools and allocation bases, actual rate reconciliations, direct and indirect cost analysis, allowable and unallowable cost review, and required tie-outs.

• Support development and updates of Provisional Billing Rates (PBRs); calculate, monitor, and reconcile fringe, overhead, and G&A rates using actual and forecasted cost data.

• Analyze indirect rate performance, cost pool trends, allocation bases, and contract impacts; identify emerging rate risks and support updates to forecasts, pricing models, and approved billing assumptions.

• Maintain compliance workpapers, source documentation, submission calendars, and audit request trackers; coordinate complete, traceable responses to DCAA, DCMA, customer, internal-control, and financial audit requests.

Accounting Operations and Financial Close Support

• Support recurring general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, billing, and project accounting activities in coordination with Accounting and the Corporate Controller.

• Assist with journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, reclassifications, month-end adjustments, and supporting schedules to contribute to timely monthly financial close.

• Support payroll processing and validate that labor costs are accurately recorded and allocated to projects, contracts, tasks, and indirect charge codes in coordination with HR and Accounting.

• Assist with cash flow analysis, collections, billed and unbilled receivable reconciliations, and resolution of accounting and project data discrepancies.

CFO Planning Reporting and Process Improvement

• Support annual budgeting, periodic reforecasting, and CFO-led planning through development of assumptions, schedules, budget-to-actual analyses, and financial models.

• Prepare recurring analyses of revenue, gross margin, contract profitability, indirect rate impacts, funding, backlog, burn rate, unbilled activity, cash flow, and other financial performance indicators.

• Build and maintain executive dashboards, schedules, briefing materials, and financial summaries that explain results, variances, trends, and decisions requiring management attention.

• Improve billing, Unanet administration, pricing, reporting, and forecasting processes to strengthen accuracy, consistency, compliance readiness, and management visibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field.

• Approximately 2-5 years of progressive accounting, financial analysis, project finance, program finance, contract finance, or related experience, preferably within a federal government contracting environment.

• Hands-on Unanet experience with project setup, charge codes, employee assignments, timekeeping, billing configuration, or project financial reporting.

• Experience preparing government contract invoices and supporting accounting operations such as payroll and labor allocation, journal entries, account reconciliations, monthly close, or project accounting.

• Working knowledge of cost-reimbursement, T&M, and FFP contract financial requirements, including indirect cost allocation, fringe, overhead, G&A, funding, billing, and project financial performance.

• Experience supporting incurred cost submissions, provisional billing rates, indirect rate analysis, DCAA/DCMA requests, or other GovCon financial compliance activities.

• Strong Excel skills and ability to build, review, and explain financial models, pricing schedules, reconciliations, workpapers, forecasts, and reports; familiarity with lookup formulas, pivot tables, and scenario analysis.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills; attention to detail; ability to manage multiple deadlines and work effectively across Finance, Accounting, Program Control, Contracts, HR, Project Management, and executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working for a small or mid-sized federal government contractor or supporting multiple legal entities or business units.

• Experience developing proposal pricing for federal services contracts and working with GSA Schedule or other IDIQ labor categories and rate structures.

• Working knowledge of FAR cost principles, DCAA accounting requirements, and government contract timekeeping and billing practices.

• Familiarity with PIEE/WAWF, IPP, or other government invoicing portals; experience with subcontractor costs, ETC/EAC support, backlog analysis, revenue forecasting, or collections.

• CPA, CMA, MBA, or another relevant professional credential is a plus but not required.