Mid-level SAP Analyst - Vendor Pay, Procurement, and Travel (Navy ERP), Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), Hybrid (Falls Church, VA)

BizFirst•Falls Church, VA

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position supports a newly awarded task order with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), where the client provides expert personnel to operationalize and sustain BUMED's Government-led Command Support Team (CST). The CST is the local interface between the command and the General Fund Business Office (GFBO), which provides centralized Tier 2 enterprise sustainment. The work keeps BUMED processing financial transactions, closing accounting periods within the mandatory four-day reporting window, supporting audits, and maintaining accurate financial records without interruption. The role is hybrid, based at the Defense Health Headquarters (DHHQ) in Falls Church, VA, and requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a DoD Common Access Card (CAC). Our client is a boutique consulting firm that employs consultants and professionals with unique skill sets to support the federal government with strategic execution, financial process enablement, IT systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship. Foreign nationals are not permitted access to the functional or system side of Navy ERP.
Eligible for a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) and able to obtain and maintain a favorably adjudicated background investigation at the level determined by the Command Information System Security Manager. A Tier 3 (T3/T3R) or equivalent investigation is anticipated for Enhanced access to Navy ERP and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI); interim approval is not authorized.
At least three (3) years of relevant experience, including at least two (2) years of direct experience with Navy ERP.
Demonstrated experience acting as the functional owner for logistics, procurement, and travel workflows, including direct user support and field-level training.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Access, Visio, and Adobe Acrobat; able to produce briefing slides, metric charts, program schedules, and organizational charts.
Able to leverage artificial intelligence and automation platforms (Power BI, Power Automate, and generative AI tools).
Comfortable delivering ad-hoc, over-the-shoulder user support through Microsoft Teams.
Able to complete the Government onboarding package (OF-306, FD-258 fingerprints, e-QIP/SF-86, DISS profile, SAAR-N) and in-process with the Command Security Manager and ISSM before beginning work.
Able to complete required training, initially and annually: Level I Antiterrorism Awareness, OPSEC Awareness, DoD Cyber Awareness, and Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) training.
Able to work onsite at DHHQ in Falls Church, VA approximately 20% of the time and support limited CONUS travel to Navy Medicine commands (San Antonio, TX; San Diego, CA; Portsmouth, VA).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, or a related field.
Hands-on experience with Navy ERP MM/SD transactions: purchase requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice verification, sales orders, and reimbursable billing.
Experience with DMLSS and/or its successor system, WAWF, MOCAS, ePS, or G-Invoicing interfaces to Navy ERP.
Experience reconciling Defense Travel System (DTS) travel obligations and vouchers to ERP postings.
Prior work in a Navy general fund command comptroller, CST, or EBO environment; Navy Medicine logistics experience is a plus.
Current favorably adjudicated Tier 3 (or higher) background investigation or active Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

Serve as the functional owner for all of BUMED's external purchasing, logistics, and vendor pay structures within Navy ERP, across the Materials Management (MM) and Sales and Distribution (SD) modules.
Resolve complex procurement discrepancies, manage the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support (DMLSS) and successor system logistics interface, monitor the Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) vendor payment interface, manage travel financial reconciliations, and deliver direct end-user support and field-level training.
Be BUMED's primary functional resource for the accounting impacts of procurement, receipt, acceptance, invoicing, and travel transactions.
Report to the Senior SAP Analyst - Technical Lead and provide second-tier resolution for issues routed from the Junior SAP Analyst (Vendor Pay, Procurement, and Travel).
Serve as functional owner for procurement, logistics, vendor pay, and travel workflows across the MM and SD modules; provide direct end-user support and guidance.
Manage the DMLSS interface and its successor system(s): monitor purchase order and goods receipt/acceptance file interfaces for accuracy and errors, and provide issue resolution guidance to logistics and financial users.
Monitor the WAWF vendor payment interface; resolve complex purchase order, goods receipt, acceptance, and invoice matching discrepancies that block vendor payment.
Manage travel financial reconciliations between travel obligations and vouchers and their Navy ERP postings, and resolve resulting accounting discrepancies.
Coordinate requirements with external data sources and systems, such as the U.S. Bank purchase card interface with Navy ERP.
Support procurement- and vendor-pay-related aspects of audit-driven initiatives, including ePS support, MOCAS integration, G-Invoicing Phase 4, and Foreign Currency compliance.
Execute procurement and vendor pay close activities, including open commitment and obligation review, unmatched receipt and invoice clean-up, and interface exception clearance, in accordance with the Period-End Close Coordination Plan and the four-day financial reporting deadline.
Develop and maintain business process documentation for procurement, vendor pay, and travel processes in the prescribed consistent format, suitable as source material for formal SOPs.
Develop UAT test cases and execute testing for MM/SD releases and enhancements; perform post-release verification and real-time user assistance.
Deliver training sessions, job aids, and quick reference guides for procurement, vendor pay, and travel users, and provide over-the-shoulder support via Microsoft Teams.
Identify process improvement and automation candidates within procurement and vendor pay workflows for the Annual Report.