Financial System Implementation Readiness Managing Consultant

Guidehouse • Tysons Corner, VA

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About The Position

Guidehouse professionals help clients identify, evaluate, and solve complex challenges and achieve strategic goals and mission objectives. They transform business processes, improve operational efficiency, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and support compliance with federal laws and regulations. Projects can be fluid and require self-motivated professionals who can develop solutions independently or as part of a skilled team. Team members interact with client senior management and can develop technical, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people-development skills.

This role supports a government agency within the homeland security enterprise, with opportunities to support other national security-related organizations. The work focuses on financial system implementation readiness, modernization, data analysis, and audit readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Five years of experience in change management, process improvement, IT modernization, or another related financial field.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; approved Public Trust adjudication is required before onboarding.

Nice To Haves

• Active Public Trust or suitability.
• Understanding of accounting, audit, or an audit-support environment.
• Experience working in DHS.
• Active DHS clearance.
• Experience in financial data analysis and reconciliations.
• Familiarity with working with large datasets and source systems.
• Federal financial awareness.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills to document decisions, issues, and report outcomes.
• Strong abilities in tracking action items, closing the loop, and following through without repeated prompting.
• Ability to support stakeholders in a fast-moving, multi-vendor/stakeholder environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess financial implementations against audit-readiness criteria, including system architecture, business process design, customizations, data quality, interfaces, cutover readiness, and reporting.
• Review to-be process documentation and risk control matrices to identify nonstandard or outdated processes and recommend standardized solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize workflows to strengthen automation, improve efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and enhance audit readiness.
• Analyze and assess financial system modernization impacts throughout the program lifecycle.
• Analyze and review legacy and migrated financial, accounting, and reporting data.
• Collaborate with clients, project team members, and stakeholders to support data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Support ongoing migration activities by adapting analyses and deliverables as requirements and priorities evolve.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance.
• Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays.
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.
• Parental leave and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Basic life and supplemental life insurance.
• Health savings account and dental/vision and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Student loan paydown.
• Tuition reimbursement, personal development, and learning opportunities.
• Skills development and certifications.
• Employee referral program.
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
• Emergency back-up childcare program.
• Mobility stipend.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager