Financial Reporting and Analysis Specialist (15.50)

OCT Consulting•Washington, DC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

OCT Consulting is hiring a Financial Reporting and Analysis Specialist to support a federal financial management shared services program providing cost allocation, customer billing, financial reporting, and customer service operations to multiple federal organizations. The specialist runs the monthly customer billing cycle and quarterly and annual cost analyses that customers use to understand their bills. The position is contingent upon contract award. The role is full-time and dedicated to the contract. Work is performed during standard Eastern Time business hours at the client’s headquarters in Southwest Washington, DC. Remote work, including from OCT facilities, may be performed with the client’s prior approval. Infrequent travel to other client sites, such as Dallas, TX, and Williston, VT, may be required. The position requires U.S. citizenship and at least three years of U.S. residence during the last five years. The employee must obtain and maintain a favorable preliminary and final fitness determination for a Public Trust position, receive a client-issued badge before starting, complete required cybersecurity awareness and information protection training at onboarding and annually, and sign a non-disclosure agreement for Sensitive But Unclassified information. Fluency in reading, writing, speaking, and understanding English is required. An active Secret or Top Secret clearance is highly desired; reciprocity for an active clearance held with another federal agency is accepted.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, data analytics, or a related field.
3–6 years of experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, or federal financial operations.
Demonstrated experience with activity-based cost modeling and cost model development.
Experience analyzing shared services or reimbursable costs, including data extraction, transformation, and reporting using advanced Excel skills such as pivot tables, lookups, and Power Query.
Working experience with SQL, financial data modeling, and quality assurance validation.
Demonstrated federal-sector experience in system change management and release management.
Technical writing experience, including standard operating procedures and business process documentation.
Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and SharePoint.
Must be a U.S. citizen and have lived in the United States for at least three of the last five years.
Must obtain a favorable preliminary and final fitness determination from the client agency before starting work and maintain it throughout performance.
Must complete the client’s cybersecurity awareness and information protection training at onboarding and every year afterward, and sign a non-disclosure agreement for Sensitive But Unclassified information.
Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in data analytics, finance, or public policy.
Working capital fund or cost recovery experience.
Audit support experience.
Power BI or Tableau experience.
JIRA experience.
CGFM or CPA.
Active Secret or Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

Gather monthly cost and workload inputs from process owners through the program’s data call, follow up on late inputs, and run the monthly billing model in the program’s cost management system.
Compare monthly results with the prior month, the same month in the prior year, and the trailing average; research anomalies and failed metrics to identify root causes; and document findings for future analyses.
Prepare monthly customer activity reports, contracts and general expense analyses, and variance analysis reports on schedule ahead of monthly customer meetings.
Perform the quarterly cost-per-vendor-invoice calculation and prepare reports for customer organizations and the department.
Perform the annual beginning-of-year reassessment of each customer’s shared services amount, analyze workload-driver trends and variances behind changes, and complete detailed process analyses when requested by customers.
Lead the annual review of the cost model configuration by researching enterprise-wide costs, confirming workload drivers with process owners, recommending configuration changes, and recording changes in JIRA and required change-management documentation.
Support system change requests by gathering and analyzing requirements and validating results after each release; the client’s IT organization makes system changes and deployments.
Draft and update standard operating procedures and desk guides for monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles.
Support ad hoc taskings, including short-turnaround data requests, analyses, and briefings.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k) retirement savings plan with 3% employer contributions of the employee’s gross salary
Paid Time Off
Standard Government Holidays
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability benefits
Training benefits
Career growth and professional development