Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Essential Job Functions:  

Provides expert finance office support across appropriated and Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) activities. Leads analysis and reconciliation of financial data, prepares and reviews funding packages and spend plans, monitors burn rates and variances, and develops high-level execution and leadership briefings to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial operations.

Skills:

• Experience providing financial management support within the Department of War, to include oversight and production of as well as quality assurance of financial packages, briefings, and reports.
• Strong financial acumen to maintain, track and analyze execution of assigned IE programs against OSD obligation and disbursement targets, including, but not limited to:
• Knowledge of Defense Working Capital Fund and Appropriated Funds, DoW PPBE, DoW Program Objective Memorandum development and submission process as well as knowledge of Fiscal Law.
• Ability to analyze, report and reconcile various Excel workbooks using raw data files from enterprise financial systems in order to properly report financial status of assigned programs and/or overall IE organization.
• Ability to maintain and update Spend Plans, throughout active fiscal years, in order to assist assigned programs to remain within annual budget controls.
• Ability to analyze organization's financial status to inform and report accurate financial status to assist with processing financial funding packages and meeting OSD obligation and disbursement thresholds.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with various IE counterparts, including government and support contractors.
• Ability to maintain, create and contribute to miscellaneous briefings and spreadsheets to assist with IE financial reports.
• Ability to perform financial reconciliation and database research (to include Unliquidated Obligations (ULO). Understanding of reimbursable funding programs.
• Ability to perform quality assurance on contract required deliverables as needed. 
• Ability to support various team assignments/tasks and work both within a team setting and independently.

Qualifications:

• Required Education: Baccalaureate degree in a financial field
• Desired Certification: DoW Financial Management Level 3 certification or the Society for Defense Financial Management (SDFM) Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) certification
• Required Experience: Eight or more years in DoW Financial Management related work with an emphasis on all aspects of DoW PPBE to include both General Funds and Defense Working Capital Funds.
• Desired Experience: Experience with DoW policies, regulations and procedures is highly desirable. Non-DoW experience may be substituted if equivalent.
• Position requires Secret clearance or higher or qualify for a security clearance.