Contracts and Financial Analyst

Assured Consulting Solutions • Bethesda, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Assured Consulting Solutions provides strategic and innovative solutions for customer needs across the business, technology, and organizational spectrum. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to work with customers that are both Government and industry leaders and technology innovators. We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Contract and Financial Analyst to join our team. This position will p rovide advisory and assistance support regarding planning, developing, implementing, and coordinating a variety of analysis, and evaluation of the current and future architecture requirements; specifically this role will assist the Government customer in organizing and tracking technical investment plans to ensure execution of the current year spend plan to meet functional goals and fiscal timelines.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess a current and active TS/SCI clearance granted by the Department of Defense or an Intelligence Community agency. Must be able to pass a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph. An in place CI Polygraph is desired.
• 8 years of contracting and financial experience with the Federal Government including, but not limited to, analyzing and reviewing contract proposals and preparing technical reports; enterprise IT software, hardware, and services procurements, documenting IT requirements, developing purchase justifications and material life cycle plans.
• Superior communications skills; excellent responsiveness
• Senior-level understanding of MS Excel
• Requires a bachelor of science degree with education and/or experience in data science and data analytics. Work experience and/or certifications will be considered as potential substitutions for a degree.

Nice To Haves

• Project Management experience and/or PMP certification
• Work experience within the DIA or NDOC customer space

Responsibilities

• Provide contract/finance advisory and assistance support in generating technical details including market analysis, purchase justifications, material lifecycle plans, bills of material, cost estimates, as well as product and service oriented draft statements of work
• Provide contract/finance advisory and assistance support in performing cost-benefit and market analysis to determine if requirements details meet requisition policy for use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) or acquiring COTS software and recommend the most efficient acquisition approach.
• Provide services to coordinate and support development of customer needs statements, Requests for Information (RFis) and Requests for Quotes (RFQs).
• Provide contract/finance advisory and assistance support in coordinating activities within the Government procurement process to create purchase orders and support receipt of goods/services used to support IT related services.
• Identify opportunities for lower pricing and provide cost benefit analysis for procurement requests to meet Government requirements.
• Coordinate with the subject matter expert assigned to the organization to ensure that all supporting documentation that must be prepared for an acquisition is completed and accurate before a purchase request is initiated; generating the associated purchase request; assembling the required and coordinated supporting documentation for inclusion with the purchase request.
• Work synchronously and collaboratively with the Government functional and technical staff, from within a Government SCIF, for an average of 40 hours per week.
• Effectively and responsively summarize, analyze, document, and communicate (written and verbal) contracting and financial information as required by the position (all performed in a timely manner).
• Use excel and other Government provided tools to perform the finance and contract job functions described under responsibilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level