Finance Functional Analyst
About The Position
The Opportunity: Does the prospect of unlocking secrets held by financial transaction details excite you? Are you fascinated by the idea of harnessing the power of technology to support the DoD's goal of increased accountability and transparency? The DoD's tremendous volume of interconnected contracts, invoicing, disbursing, general ledger, and trial balance data offer a tremendous opportunity to accomplish this goal at the enterprise level. As a data analyst, you will transform and consolidate these disparate data sets, building databases, reconciliations, metrics, dashboards, and applications to achieve data completeness and facilitate management decision-making. We have an opportunity for you to use your analytical skills to improve accountability in the defense industry. You'll work closely with your customers to understand their challenges and requirements, digging into their data-rich environments to identify the key pieces of their contract reporting puzzles. You'll lead stakeholder interviews and fact-finding efforts, develop business rules for customer data sets, and standardize reconciliations to support completeness validations. You'll provide customers with structured solutions for responding to inquiries from internal stakeholders, the DoD Inspector General, independent public accountants, and others. Join us as we use data for good in the defense space. Work with us to drive large-scale business and process decisions through data insights. Join us. The world can't wait.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience within DoD or Fortune 500 in the areas of financial reporting, audit, internal controls, and data analytics
- Experience acquiring, ingesting, and normalizing data, and organizing databases
- Experience writing data ingestion business rules in SQL and building data reconciliations
- Experience with project management and Scrum Agile development
- Experience leading teams, reviewing work, and helping achieve tight deadlines
- Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or CS
Nice To Haves
- Experience with modern relational databases, including MySQL or PostgreSQL
- Experience providing recommendations using dashboards, visualizations, or reports using BI platforms such as Qlik Sense or Tableau
- Ability to manipulate and integrate databases with SQL, Python, or other languages
- Ability to comprehend stakeholder needs effectively, communicate development plans, and track progress milestones
- Ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and manage competing priorities
- Ability to successfully work on cross-functional projects and teams
- Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills, including briefing senior leadership
- Possession of excellent quantitative skills, including statistical analysis, process design, and data management
- Possession of excellent organization and time management skills to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Possession of excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, including assessing numbers, trends, and data to reach new conclusions based on findings
Benefits
- Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
