Financial Manager

Savantage Solutions•Fort Belvoir / Telework, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Savantage Solutions is seeking a Financial Manager to join our professional services team supporting the mission of a federal government agency dedicated to enabling the Department of Defense, the U.S. Government, and international partners to counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks. The Financial Management organization's mission is to provide high-quality mission and decision-making support on budgetary, financial, and civilian pay matters while continuously improving the quality, efficiency, and customer focus of financial services and operations. The department provides financial management support across the agency. The objective of this project is to deliver comprehensive, agency-wide financial and program management support services to help the government agency achieve its strategic objectives. Program objectives include: Supporting a broad range of resource planning, analysis, and execution efforts; program management support; cost estimating and analysis; and cost accounting. The team may also participate in larger corporate financial functions, processes, programs, and initiatives. Providing support for operational and information systems that enable program objectives. The successful candidate will assist the government agency in a wide range of financial, budget, resource, and program management activities.

Requirements

Strong background in Budget execution
Experience processing PRs using Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI)
Ability to manage numerous tasks/assignments simultaneously
Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office products with an emphasis on MS Excel and SharePoint, possessing a fast-learning aptitude and a dedicated drive to become an advanced user
Minimum Audit and Accounting experience
DoD PPBE experience desired
DoD experience desired
Minimum 5+ years of experience
Intermediate Microsoft Office excel proficiency with a dedicated track record of pursuing and adopting advanced data modeling techniques
Ability to manage, sort, and analyze large data sets utilizing Pivot Tables to extract actionable business insights
Strong aptitude to use Excel formulas to solve basic and complex analytical problem sets
Ability to compare and link datasets between spreadsheets
Ability to isolate, locate and reformat information in large datasets via Excel formulas and Macros

Nice To Haves

CPA preferred
CDFM or CGFM/DoD FM Certification preferred

Responsibilities

Assist in the planning and execution of Agency resource allocations.
Analyze financial execution performance, build analysis, and update this analysis daily.
Assist budget analysts in preparation of spend plans and use of the Agency’s automated spend plan management tool.
Prepare Purchase Requests, investigate and process Unliquidated Obligations and perform other financial tasks to support budget analysts.
Using established systems and databases, research and analyze unliquidated obligations, and assist procurement close-out reconciliations, including assistance to program offices.
Provide customer support for assigned programs.
Provide support processing purchase requests (IAA’s, MIPR’s, G-Invoicing, ECWM).
Train analysts on the use of financial tools that provide execution and program analysis, along with other comptroller required functions.
Provide support for Agency’s Dormant Account Review Quarterly (DARQ) efforts and processing of DARQ records.
Provide Help Desk support at a Tier II level for issues related to the Spend Plan Tool.
Assist in the development of enhancements, initiatives, and other financial tools for spend plans and execution.
Document development efforts and produce guides, job aids and other information to support the Agency’s automated spend plan management system and other financial tools (to include but not limited to DAI, Joint Integrated CBRN Analytic Platform (JICAP), and Dormant Account Review Quarterly (DAR-Q).
Provide support to Financial Managers by conducting research and analysis on budget and financial management related policies and issues.