Financial Analyst

Ignite Digital•Charleston, SC

32d•$75,000

About The Position

Ignite Digital enables national security agencies to accelerate decisions, elevate operational outcomes and achieve the outsized performance only an inside partner can deliver. We combine mission experience, domain knowledge and technology expertise with the things partners can only know by being there every day. When agencies need a combination of tech and touch, Ignite Digital creates outcome-driving partnerships and stands with agencies to accomplish mission objectives. Ignite Digital accelerates capability to the speed of every mission, deploying intelligent solutions and AI integration for faster, better transformation. Ignite delivers partnership beyond presentations to inspire the confidence to lead in a digital-forward world. The Edge from Within. The NIWC Atlantic Non-traditional Sensors, Effects, Communications, & Technology (NSECT) IPT Finance Manager & Operations Coordinator supports IPT Leadership, the Finance team, and Team Leads through: updating financial dashboards on a weekly basis, providing support to IPT BFMs, and coordinating with the BFM team for all funds acceptance, both reimbursable and direct cite. This includes creating the project structure and NWAs in N-ERP for new funds received, populating and routing the FDA's for IPT and 1.0 review and signature. The role also involves creating project cost estimates, communicating scheduled funding request plans with sponsors, completing funds acceptance with the IPT BFM, and creating and maintaining spend plans for the IPT alongside team leadership. Ensure all funding received has an associated spend plan created using the latest spend plan template. Work with the leads to ensure regular updates are captured for forecasted costs. This includes ensuring the spend plan data is aggregating and ingested into the PowerBI data model for cross project views of labor allocation and planned vs actual expenditure rates. The role also supports command data calls with information on obligation authority, projected monthly expenditures, and carryover projections, and supports service PR actions by provided NWA and funding document information needed to award contract modifications.

Requirements

Proficiency with Microsoft Apps, especially Excel, Planner, Power BI, and SharePoint.
Project Management experience
Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to communicate in both written and verbal format to stakeholders
Ensures problems are communicated from teams up to leadership, and vice versa.
Knowledge of project orders, outdocs, G-invoicing, and GT&Cs.
Understanding of the 51/49 rule as it applies to NIWC reimbursable funds and project orders.

Responsibilities

Updating financial dashboards on a weekly basis
Providing support to IPT BFMs
Coordinating with the BFM team for all funds acceptance, both reimbursable and direct cite.
Creating the project structure and NWAs in N-ERP for new funds received
Populating and routing the FDA's for IPT and 1.0 review and signature
Creating project cost estimates
Communicating scheduled funding request plans with sponsors
Completing funds acceptance with the IPT BFM
Creating and maintaining spend plans for the IPT alongside team leadership
Ensuring all funding received has an associated spend plan created using the latest spend plan template
Working with the leads to ensure regular updates are captured for forecasted costs
Ensuring the spend plan data is aggregating and ingested into the PowerBI data model for cross project views of labor allocation and planned vs actual expenditure rates
Supporting command data calls with information on obligation authority, projected monthly expenditures, and carryover projections
Supporting service PR actions by provided NWA and funding document information needed to award contract modifications