PPBE Integration SME

Kearney & Company • Arlington, VA

4h • Hybrid

About The Position

Kearney & Company is seeking a PPBE Integration SME to join our growing firm! Responsibilities / duties include but not limited to: Provide senior-level analytical and integration support, using technology-enabled methods to turn raw or incomplete data into clear, decision-useful information for Comptroller leadership. Develop ad hoc analyses, reports, briefings, presentations, and other communication products for internal use and for audiences across DoW, the federal government, and Congress. Prepare and assemble high-visibility executive materials, including professional briefing books, graphics, President’s Budget presentations, and other products used by senior Department of War leadership. Conduct special analyses and research that connect budget programming, execution, accounting, and legislative activity to support senior-leader decisions and organizational awareness. Apply strong judgment, quality control, and presentation skills to ensure analytical products are accurate, coherent, professionally presented, and responsive to evolving customer needs.

Requirements

• Master’s degree plus at least 10 years of relevant experience; an additional six years of related experience may substitute for the Master’s degree.
• At least 10 years of experience supporting Department of Defense programs, organizations, or major initiatives including 3 years of experience supporting DoD financial management, budget, or related analytical activities.
• Active Secret security clearance (U.S Citizenship Required)
• Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience with the Department of Defense Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, with particular familiarity with budget formulation, development of the President’s Budget request, and the Congressional authorization and appropriations process.
• Working knowledge of DoD budget formulation processes and products sufficient to understand senior-level requirements, including budget exhibits, justification materials, budget positions and controls, and relationships among related budget products.
• Familiarity with the Congressional budget process sufficient to understand and communicate the status and implications of authorization and appropriations actions.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with senior Government leaders to understand their objectives, identify the underlying business need, and translate broad or ambiguous direction into practical analytical, process, reporting, or technical solutions.
• Demonstrated consulting skills, including independent judgment, critical thinking, problem solving, and the ability to recommend approaches rather than simply execute prescribed tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to identify potential issues, inconsistencies, or unintended consequences and appropriately clarify or challenge requirements with senior customers using sound judgment and tact.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare clear, accurate, and professional executive-level briefings, decision-support products, reports, and visual materials.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent assignments, prioritize work, meet deadlines, and maintain responsiveness in a high-tempo environment.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize opportunities to replace repetitive or labor-intensive manual data manipulation with more efficient, repeatable, or automated approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to organize disparate information and imperfect source data into coherent, accurate, and decision-useful products.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including the ability to rapidly analyze, restructure, reconcile, and transform complex or poorly formatted data using advanced formulas, PivotTables, Power Query, and other appropriate Excel capabilities.
• Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft 365 collaboration and productivity tools, including Teams and SharePoint, to organize information, collaborate with stakeholders, and support recurring business processes.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced experience designing and maintaining SharePoint sites, lists, libraries, Teams workspaces, Microsoft 365 Groups, or similar collaborative solutions.
• Experience using Microsoft Power Automate to automate recurring workflows, notifications, approvals, data movement, or other business processes.
• Demonstrated experience developing effective data visualizations, dashboards, or analytical reporting products using Microsoft Power BI or comparable business-intelligence tools.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and effectively employ new Microsoft 365 capabilities, low-code tools, or other technologies to improve productivity and customer outcomes.
• Knowledge of DoD appropriations and fiscal-management concepts, including appropriation structure, budget authority, obligations, outlays, periods of availability, reprogramming, and prior-year funding.
• Experience applying business-process improvement, process-mapping, Lean, human-centered design, or other structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Experience advising senior DoD leaders on financial-management, analytical, process, reporting, or decision-support requirements.
• Experience leading small teams or workstreams, coordinating deliverables across personnel, and managing day-to-day customer requirements.
• Expert knowledge of Defense Budget Systems, including Budget to Appropriation (B2A)/Enterprise Funds Distribution (EFD), MAX A-11 Information System, and the Standard Data Collection System (SDCS).
• Demonstrated proficiency with accounting reports such as AR(M) 1002, AR(M) 725, and SF 133.
• Demonstrated relevant Federal agency experience involving OMB and/or Congressional activities.
• Demonstrated program management experience collaborating and delivering contractual services in a high-operational-tempo environment and coordinating among multidisciplinary functions of internal and external organizations.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level analytical and integration support, using technology-enabled methods to turn raw or incomplete data into clear, decision-useful information for Comptroller leadership.
• Develop ad hoc analyses, reports, briefings, presentations, and other communication products for internal use and for audiences across DoW, the federal government, and Congress.
• Prepare and assemble high-visibility executive materials, including professional briefing books, graphics, President’s Budget presentations, and other products used by senior Department of War leadership.
• Conduct special analyses and research that connect budget programming, execution, accounting, and legislative activity to support senior-leader decisions and organizational awareness.
• Apply strong judgment, quality control, and presentation skills to ensure analytical products are accurate, coherent, professionally presented, and responsive to evolving customer needs.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan and 529 Education Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Account
• Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity Insurances
• Legal Insurance and Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program, fitness and wellness benefits, and other firm benefits.
• Paid holidays, vacation, and sick time

What This Job Offers

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