Expert Budget/Financial Analyst

Strategic ACI is seeking an Expert Budget/ Financial Analyst with a background in budget execution to support an IC customer.

About Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc.: Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc. (Strategic ACI) is a member of the Agile Support Alliance Joint Venture, LLC. The joint venture works under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for the EMERALD Program. EMERALD is a procurement vehicle for life-cycle acquisition management, strategic financial, and business management support services for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The EMERALD acquisition vehicle is structured as an agency-wide, small business set-aside program.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a member of team that supports the FM Execution office, helping manage multiple technical programs within the Research and CIO-T components. 
• Assists the government with financial management of daily operational activities. 
• Creates various detailed financial reports, data extracts, and quality control checks. 
• Assists the government with budget analysis and completion of various budget deliverables. 
• Supports the Government in monitoring and coordinating program resource allocations. 
• Assists and supports the government with further automating of financial and requirements data in the financial database and conduct system operations. 
• Supports government representatives at meetings through attendance and by providing financial management operations and budget analysis information as requested. 
• Ensures cohesive agency-wide budget program development through engagement and collaboration across NGA. 
• Assists with resource management oversight. 
• Supports internal agency program build activities, analysis, events, and documentation packages as designated by government leads. 
• Assists in the defining, gathering, inputting, and managing of Financial Requirements by working with KC, program managers and OCS. 
• Supports management of execution year funds and controls to include various aspects of data management to include developing and enhancing financial tools, applications and databases as well as using advanced Microsoft Excel utilities. 
• Financial data analysis, including the ability to analyze data, identify trends, generate reports, data merging and supplemental data sources utilizing visualization and analytic tools such as Tableau, R, and Python. 
• Analyzes and interprets large volumes of complex budget and execution data. 

Qualifications:

Required:

• Possess Master’s degree or higher in a business-related field such as Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent work experience. 
• Demonstrated specialized experience with DoD or other government agency budgetary or finance processes. 
• Demonstrated specialized experience working with financial tools, such as Momentum and other visualization and analytic tools like Tableau, R, and Python.
• Demonstrated specialized experience in U.S. Intelligence funded programs. 

Desired: 

• Demonstrated experience with DoD or other government agency key budget execution processes including: funds control, fund transfers, travel orders, and credit card purchases.
• Demonstrated experience with fund execution policies for principal DoD appropriations. 
• Demonstrated experience with DoD and IC programs and budgets. 
• Demonstrated specialized experience resolving resource management issues in support of the DoD or IC community mission.
• Demonstrated experience with the role of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in controlling and executing funds for a Service major command or a Defense Agency.