Financial Analyst III- Corporate Finance

Family Health International • Washington, DC

119d • $95,000 - $110,000

About The Position

Responsible for facilitating the annual planning and budgeting process, as well as maintaining and enhancing financial planning applications and templates. Provides training and user support on the financial planning application, templates and budgeting processes. Understands and applies statistical methods and budget planning tools and techniques to manage the financial analysis and budget workflow. Participates in organizational meetings to ensure accurate setup of financial planning and analysis application, cost structure for awards and periodic financial reports. Organizes portfolio level and project level meetings to review and discuss financial planning and analysis processes, templates, and financial reports. Promotes financial success of the organization, portfolio and its projects by proactively extending guidance and support on financial matters, providing high level analytical expertise and capacity building support, and implementing financial management and budgetary strategies. Designs and develops budgeting and analytical tools, promotes adoption of the tools, and establishes strong customer relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or its International Equivalent in Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration or Related Field.
• Typically requires a minimum 5+ years of progressively responsible financial analysis and pricing experience in a government contracting environment.
• Experience in providing outstanding customer service and training, performing complex activities associated with maintaining ledger accounts, and in ensuring compliance with company's system of internal controls is required.
• Experienced using systems to produce reports, financial models and databases.
• Substantial experience using SQL and computerized information systems.
• Proficiency in spreadsheet software required.
• Experience in managing a TM1/IBM Planning Analytics based budgeting application desired.
• Familiar with cost estimating models, basic modeling and simulation principles, basic operations research methods, particularly statistical data analysis preferred.
• Familiarity with USAID rules and regulations preferred.
• Experience in CRO and/or pharmaceutical business development preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates on annual planning and budgeting process by developing templates, providing guidance and support to budget managers, participating in the meetings, providing analysis, and extending user support across the organization.
• Maintains various budgets (baseline, forecast, client approved) in the budget system and supports development and maintenance of financial models to track the budget, expenses, and variances.
• Prepares periodic financial reports and develops ad-hoc reports to respond to requests for budgetary information.
• Collaborates with business managers, finance managers, operations management, and enterprise service units to understand their needs on financial planning and analysis templates, processes and reports.
• Helps design and execute a plan to expand Tables Manager 1 (TM1)/IBM Planning Analytics usage across the organization and organizes training events to enhance the knowledge and skills of our finance staff on financial policies, financial system, TM1/IBM Planning Analytics budgeting, budget monitoring, and reporting.
• Responsible for customization, maintenance and troubleshooting of the budgeting system, ensures data integrity, develops and analyzes solutions to meet the business needs.
• Works with vendors and internal departments to enhance TM1/IBM Planning Analytics data model and to ensure data integrity and data quality.
• Undertakes continuous enhancement initiatives to increase the effectiveness of the budgeting and reporting tools.
• Reviews and/or processes budget and journal transactions if necessary.
• Implements and evaluates statistical models, systems and serves as a trusted advisor to Operations teams and management.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account.
• 18 days of paid vacation per year.
• 12 sick days per year.
• 11 holidays per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree