Financial Management Analyst

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Description

Allegient Defense provides technically oriented services from program management to advanced systems integration and engineering. We support Government and prime system integrators with engineering and management expertise. Allegient Defense helps clients with challenging Science & Technology, Engineering Acquisition, and Program Management Mission requirements.

Allegient Defense is a leader in advanced technology research and solutions development, and we are growing quickly. We are looking to hire a Financial Management Analyst for one of our federal clients.

Job Summary

The financial management analyst will provide expertise in direct support of the Air Force Element/Program Resources Office (AFE/PRO) under the Headquarters Air Force/Defense Sensitive Support Division (AF/A3OZ). The requirements are summarized into performance objectives that relate directly to mission essential items. Mission essential items include reconcile and report AF DSS wide financial data, analyze, manage, and keep current financial data in Automated Budgetary Systems, (like Safes, DEAMS), and d) ensure proper execution of AF DSS program budget as authorized.

They will provide financial analysis across the Department of Air Force Defense Sensitive Support (DAF DSS) program. They will support the following:

1. support and advise on financial management decisions and resource utilizations,
2. formulate recommendations to HAF/A3OZ and AFELM/PRO leaders for implementing Department of Defense (DoD) and Secretary of the Air Force Financial Management (SAF/FM) guidance pertaining to financial decisions, and
3. c) partner with program managers to develop and finalize advocacy strategies for DAF DSS program mission success.

Requirements

Experience Requirements

• Coordinate, consolidate, develop, and maintain financial execution governance and programmatic documents (e.g., Air Force Instructions (AFIs), OSD policies), action plan recommendations, task and inquiry responses, and issue resolution action plans under program management oversight.
• Provide detailed updates to leadership and government stakeholders in monthly status report, technical meetings, and as needed by participating in meetings and coordinating, consolidating, developing, and delivering/presenting associated meeting materials (e.g., slides, after action reports, minutes).
• Reconcile and report AF DSS wide financial data to leaders and government stakeholders in support of execution milestones.
• Analyze, manage, and keep current financial data in a variety of software programs e.g., Safes Financial Accounting System, Automated Budgetary Systems, Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System (DEAMS), Commander's Resource Integration System (CRIS), Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint, in order to extract AF-wide enterprise financial data for inclusion in briefings, papers, reports, and other program documents
• Ensure proper execution of AF DSS program budget as authorized. Monitor monthly obligations and expenditures for assigned accounts, and accurately identify conditions of over or under obligation of funds. Identify and refer reprogramming actions that require prior approval to higher-level officials. Provide guidance for the development, preparation, and justification of all reprogramming actions. Develop reports to accurately represent the status of funds, expenses, obligations, and tracking of agreements.
• Select and use many different analytical techniques and methods in formulating, presenting, and/or executing annual and multi-year budget forecasts and requests to meet unpredictable deadlines while covering substantive programs with widely varying needs, goals, objectives, work processes, and timetables. This position requires strong technical knowledge and the flexibility to interpret varied forms of financial data.
• Analyze, provide advice on, and recommend solutions to critical budgetary problems in all phases of budget administration: formulation through execution. Interpret and adapt both financial and information technology laws, regulations, higher level directives, financial management systems, budget systems, or new or revised methods that directly impact government stakeholder programming and budgeting processes. Understand how their work impacts, acquisition, amount, distribution, and sequence of funds for all government stakeholders. Recommend, and rapidly execute local process changes in response to government process changes. Assure funds are obligated and appropriately disbursed on a timely basis.
• Analyze and evaluate the AF DSS program financial data to develop and present courses of action recommendations to both leadership and government stakeholders. The data available is often inconsistent in quality requiring continued stakeholder engagement, complex analyses, and the development of prioritized recommendations with available data. A clear understanding of the underlying data is essential to interpret courses of action options for leadership and government stakeholders.
• Schedule, oversee, and establish information exchanges with key AF DSS government stakeholders to promote, support, and educate participants on resourcing to meet mission needs using a variety of media formats (e.g., VTCs, teleconferences, emails, in-person visits, etc.). Proactively reach out to government stakeholders to build relationships.
• Interpret, action, and clearly present the strategic impacts that various initiatives have on the AF DSS program and their government stakeholders. Examples of the initiatives include but are not limited to proposals for realigning funding, program execution, and rectifying unliquidated obligations.

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or similar field,
• Four (4) years' experience leading government resource management and budgetary actions, and DoD financial management (FM) level 2 certification or equivalent.
• TS clearance is required with the ability to pass a Special Access Program (SAP) background investigation as a minimum qualification.

****Extensive experience in lieu of the above credentials will be considered if all tasks can be met