Senior Budget and Financial Management Analyst
About The Position
Harkcon, Inc. is seeking a Senior Analyst to support budget execution, financial analysis, resource tracking, internal controls, and management reporting for a federal organization. The role combines analytical work with careful transaction review, clear documentation, and responsive support to program and financial leaders. The position is contingent upon award of a contract to Harkcon. The position is primarily at federal customer facilities in Norfolk, Virginia, and Washington, DC. It may support a distributed team through a combination of remote work and activities at federal customer locations; remote work or telework is subject to government approval and is not guaranteed. The employee must participate in virtual and in-person meetings, work during normal customer business hours, travel periodically, and use customer-approved collaboration and information systems. Specific location, travel, and access requirements will be confirmed before placement.
Requirements
- Four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
- At least three years of experience in project support, financial management, analysis, or administrative functions related to education or training programs and/or financial management.
- Experience reconciling financial data and explaining differences among planned, committed, obligated, and expended amounts.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
- Ability to interpret financial policies, transaction records, and supporting documentation and apply consistent quality-control procedures.
- Strong analytical writing, organization, and customer-service skills.
- Ability to manage recurring deadlines and time-sensitive requests without sacrificing accuracy.
- Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements and remain eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance. An active clearance is not currently required.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, and data visualization.
- Federal financial-management or budget-execution experience.
- Experience supporting training, workforce-development, or mission-support programs.
- Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, enterprise financial systems, or purchase-card management.
- Knowledge of federal appropriations, fiscal-year execution, acquisition support, internal controls, and audit readiness.
- Experience developing standard operating procedures or improving financial workflows.
- Experience with data cleansing, metrics development, and performance tracking.
- Preferred fields of study include Business Administration, Finance, Education, Public Administration, or a related discipline.
Responsibilities
- Track funding, commitments, obligations, expenditures, balances, and variances across programs, projects, organizations, or funding sources.
- Reconcile financial records among source systems, spreadsheets, reports, and supporting documentation; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
- Support budget formulation and execution activities, spend plans, forecasts, data calls, unfunded-requirement submissions, and year-end closeout.
- Review purchase requests, purchase-card documentation, invoices, travel or training costs, and other transactions for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
- Develop recurring financial reports, dashboards, trackers, reconciliations, and briefing materials for program managers and senior leaders.
- Analyze spending patterns, burn rates, aging obligations, available balances, and execution risks; identify issues requiring management attention.
- Maintain audit-ready files and support internal reviews, data-quality checks, and responses to financial-management inquiries.
- Document financial procedures, desk guides, workflows, internal controls, and recommended process improvements.
- Coordinate with budget, acquisition, contracting, logistics, training, and program-management personnel.
- Research open obligations and prepare monthly findings and supporting documentation for accounting review.
- Verify purchase-card transactions against financial ledgers and reconcile discrepancies across official financial records.
- Prepare weekly balance reports and recurring statistical and financial reports supporting education and professional-development programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
