Financial Analyst II

IFAS LLC•Fort Meade, MD

7d•$95,000 - $110,000

About The Position

The Financial Analyst 2 provides contractual, financial, and programmatic support to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). This position ensures that supported PAE programs have consistent, viable, and expert input for program objective memorandum, budget submissions, executive oversight, subscription services support, and implementation activities in support of the network infrastructure.

Requirements

Demonstrated knowledge of federal financial management principles, appropriated and working capital fund accounting, and budget execution processes.
Proficiency in reconciling checkbooks, spend plans, and status of funds reports with a high degree of accuracy.
Experience working with DoD and DISA financial management systems, including the Financial Dashboard, DISA Financial Management System (DFMS), Financial Accounting Management Information System (FAMIS), and other DoD and DISA automated systems.
Ability to perform various budget support functions involving assistance with formulation and justification of budgets for organizations, programs, or projects by providing advice, alternatives, analysis, and technical input.
Familiarity with POM, BES, and Five-Year Defense Program processes is required.
Familiarity with Office of the Secretary of Defense Guidance, DoD Financial Management Regulation, and OMB Circular No. A-11 is required.
Ability to identify program variances, analyze trends, develop cost projections, and conduct thorough research of historical financial data to support executive decision-making.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to develop executive-level briefings and reports for senior leadership.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams, and Power BI for report development, data management, and collaboration.
Proven ability to maintain 95% or greater accuracy across all financial tracking, reporting, and execution activities, and to process funding packages within established timelines.
Ability to manage high-volume workloads, prioritize competing deadlines, and maintain compliance with established timelines across multiple programs and funding types.
Requires at a minimum Interim Secret Security clearance or must be eligible to obtain a secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

DoW Financial Management Level I certification or the Society for Defense Financial Management (SDFM) Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) certification
Experience with DoW regulations and procedures is highly desirable.
Non-DoW experience may be substituted if equivalent.

Responsibilities

Provides consolidated reports and briefings such as the Quarterly Portfolio Review, Mid-Year, and End-of-Year Reporting, while compiling and consolidating Other Acquisition Directorate actions and checking for consistency, accuracy, and compliance with the budget cycle.
Reconciles checkbooks and Economic Analysis Workbooks daily to log, validate, and process funding packages, and updates appropriated program Economic Analysis Workbooks and Budget/Execution three times per week.
Identifies and reports the causes of program variances against key financial metrics, potential impacts of variances, and improved forecasting of end-of-year projections, twice per month during programmatic updates.
Collects data from Government and Program points of contact, reviews data against the Annual Operating Budget, makes recommendations for updates, compiles baseline spend plans at the beginning of each fiscal year and at mid-year, and updates all spend plans weekly as funding packages are processed.
Provides comprehensive support for financial transaction and data management, including preparing, coordinating, and executing funding packages by leveraging government financial systems, and preparing coversheets and submitting transactions to realign funds and balance spend plans with the DISA Comptroller and OCFO.
Provides recommendations against processing non-compliant funding packages and conducts thorough peer package reviews, ensuring documentation accuracy, matching amounts, logical periods of performance, and correct Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs).
Provides updated GF and DWCF Status of Funds Reports by pulling data from source financial systems such as the Financial Dashboard and FAMIS, validating data against all execution reporting, and posting to the designated SharePoint repository.
Develops execution reports to facilitate senior leadership information and decision-making briefs in support of various program level meetings with DISA's Component Acquisition Executive, DISA Director, DISA Comptroller, Division Chiefs, and SESs.
Provides comprehensive support for budget formulation, financial analysis, and reporting, including assisting with all aspects of the DoD Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution processes, preparing Program Objective Memorandum inputs, Budget Exhibits, and developing White Papers, Concept Papers, Cost Estimates, and Out-year Planning Documents.
Develops detailed programming and cost projections, analyzes and reports on current financial status, conducts thorough research of historical financial data, and prepares budgetary documentation including Unfunded Requirements and Change Proposals for inclusion into the POM, Budget Estimate Submission, Spend Plans, and Five-Year Defense Program submissions.
Reviews and analyzes the financial performance of each DISN or internal budget program, reconciles financial accounts, and reports findings to the Government.
Analyzes, reviews, and tracks collected Unfunded Requirements and Issue Nominations collected at the beginning of the fiscal year, mid-year, and end of fiscal year.
Assesses funding needs and analyzes financial requirements and documentation related to innovation and technology for contract management efforts, providing reviews for resource packages to ensure requirements are consistent and aligned with budgetary purposes and restrictions.
Processes 7600A General Terms and Conditions (GT&C) and 7600B Orders consistent with Treasury's G-Invoicing standard for reimbursable agreements between agencies.
Processes documentation to include workflows, roles and responsibilities, training guides, and SOPs.
Manages and troubleshoots SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, and other Microsoft tools, including establishing and managing Teams and SharePoint sites, user access, and file management.