Financial Analyst I

IFAS LLC•Fort Meade, MD

96d•$73,000 - $80,000

About The Position

Provides transactional and administrative finance office support to appropriated and Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) programs. The analyst assists with preparing and assembling funding packages; enters and validates financial data in DISA systems, including FAMIS and the Financial Dashboard; updates and maintains spend plans; reconciles checkbooks and economic analysis workbooks; and supports monitoring burn rates, variances, and unliquidated obligations under senior analyst direction. The role supports financial management activities, program execution tracking, financial analysis and reporting, reconciliation, briefings, and quality assurance of contract-required deliverables. It requires coordination with government and support-contractor counterparts and the ability to work independently as well as with a team.

Requirements

Baccalaureate degree in a financial field.
Two or more years of DoW financial management-related work, with an emphasis on both General Funds and Defense Working Capital Funds.
Experience providing financial management support within the Department of War, including producing and performing quality assurance on financial packages, briefings, and reports.
Knowledge of Defense Working Capital Fund and appropriated funds, DoW PPBE, the DoW Program Objective Memorandum development and submission process, and fiscal law.
Ability to analyze, report, and reconcile Excel workbooks using raw data files from enterprise financial systems.
Ability to maintain and update spend plans to help assigned programs remain within annual budget controls.
Ability to analyze organizational financial status and provide accurate reporting to support financial funding packages and OSD obligation and disbursement thresholds.
Good verbal and written communication skills for interacting with government and support-contractor counterparts.
Ability to create, maintain, and contribute to briefings and spreadsheets for financial reporting.
Ability to perform financial reconciliation and database research, including work on unliquidated obligations.
Understanding of reimbursable funding programs.
Ability to perform quality assurance on contract-required deliverables as needed.
Ability to support team assignments and work both independently and in a team setting.
Secret clearance or higher, or ability to qualify for a security clearance.

Responsibilities

Provide transactional and administrative finance office support to appropriated and DWCF programs.
Assist with preparing and assembling financial funding packages.
Enter and validate financial data in DISA systems such as FAMIS and the Financial Dashboard.
Update and maintain spend plans throughout active fiscal years.
Reconcile checkbooks and economic analysis workbooks.
Support monitoring of burn rates, variances, and unliquidated obligations under senior analyst direction.
Track and analyze program execution against OSD obligation and disbursement targets.
Analyze, report, and reconcile Excel workbooks using raw data from enterprise financial systems.
Analyze and report the financial status of assigned programs and/or the overall IE organization.
Support processing financial funding packages and meeting OSD obligation and disbursement thresholds.
Create, maintain, and contribute to briefings and spreadsheets for financial reports.
Perform financial reconciliation and database research, including research on unliquidated obligations.
Perform quality assurance on contract-required deliverables as needed.
Support team assignments and tasks, working both independently and as part of a team.