ER Lead Finance Manager

Gemini Industries Inc.•Glen Burnie, MD

2d•$145,000 - $155,000•Onsite

About The Position

The ER Lead Finance Manager SME supports the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Enterprise Management and Resources (ER) Directorate, providing financial advice, analysis, planning, and execution support. This role requires a strong understanding of financial management principles within the context of highly technical programs and projects, with a focus on budget formulation, execution, forecasting, and financial documentation. The successful candidate will be responsible for researching, analyzing, and evaluating financial and manpower data, developing long-range financial plans, and monitoring budget execution. Key activities include producing budget execution analytics, providing data-driven insights and recommendations, creating visualization products, and performing historical trend analysis. The role also involves maintaining financial data matrices, ensuring audit readiness, and developing resource projection models and funding constraint reports. A significant aspect of the role involves leveraging government-provided Generative AI tools to enhance task efficiency and contributing to AI/ML operationalization goals.

Requirements

BA/BS plus 10 years relevant experience in the areas listed below, or MA/MS and 8 years relevant experience in the areas listed below, or PhD plus 5 years relevant experience in the areas listed below.
Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive budget and data analysis to inform financial planning and execution.
Extensive experience with manpower and budgetary databases, including the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environmental System (ABIDES), interlink Resource Management Information System (iRMIS), and the Program Budget Execution System (PBES), to manage and report on financial resources.
Applied deep knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution (PPBE) process to guide financial decision-making and resource allocation.
Proven success in proactively managing tasks and collaborating effectively with stakeholders at all organizational levels to achieve strategic objectives.
Exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills, evidenced by the ability to effectively communicate complex information and build consensus in both written and oral forums.
Active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DoW, Intelligence Community, and/or the Air Force (desirable).
Certifications as a certified Financial Professional (i.e. CPA, CDFM, other) (desirable).
Knowledgeable and skilled in applying Generative AI (desirable).

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and SME advice and support related to budget formulation, execution, forecasting, and financial documentation for highly technical programs and projects.
Research, analyze, and evaluate financial and manpower data from Government-provided systems, databases, and records to identify trends, anomalies, and potential resource gaps.
Develop long-range financial plans, detailed budget forecasts, and multi-year funding profiles to support program and project execution.
Monitor the execution of approved financial plans, provide data-driven insights, and recommendations to support effective resource allocation and financial performance monitoring.
Produce budget execution analytics (obligations vs. plan, burn rates, anomalies).
Expand execution analysis to include monthly delta summaries, color-coded execution risk indicators, and variance narratives that enable Government leadership to quickly identify projected shortfalls or overspending risks.
Provide visualization products (tables, charts, infographics) to illustrate execution patterns across fiscal quarters and color-coding of high-risk accounts.
Compare execution patterns against historical data to identify predictive trends relevant to programming decisions.
Provide historical trend analysis covering forecasts, expenditures, capability gaps, and anomalies.
Include crosswalks between Congressional marks, DoW/DoD-level adjustments, and DC3 impacts where historical data allows alignment.
Maintain financial data matrices, mapping manpower, procurement, Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E), and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) lines.
Update financial matrices monthly to ensure alignment with current execution status, appropriation rules, and fiscal year transitions.
Maintain traceability between program requirements, funding lines, and appropriation categories, providing a consistent framework for Government decision-making.
Provide data-integrity checks of Government-provided systems to highlight inconsistencies or missing financial information, annotated for Government review.
Achieve and maintains 100% audit readiness with zero major discrepancies in financial execution, property management, and inventory control audits.
Create five-year resource projection models based on Government parameters. These models shall be presented by January 31 of each year (Section 4, Deliverable 9).
Develop an annual Funding Constraint Summary Report to track changes in constraints, marks, or guidance (Section 4, Deliverable 10).
Produce a Financial Status Report by the last business day of each month (Section 4, Deliverable 11), to include the Funding Impact Assessment, execution summary, risks and outlook.