Senior Financial Analyst

ACT1 Federal•Arlington, VA

12d•$170,000 - $185,000•Onsite

About The Position

ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to provide budget formulation and execution, financial controls, forecasting, reconciliation, spend planning, variance analysis, and senior financial reporting in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in finance, statistics, mathematics, economics, operations research, accounting, computer science, business analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.
10 years’ experience in financial management, programming, budgeting, resource allocation, or program execution.
Extensive knowledge of Navy PPBE and the relationships among Navy Secretariat organizations, OPNAV resource sponsors, systems commands, program executive offices, program offices, OSD, and Congress.
Demonstrated ability to analyze Navy budget exhibits, appropriations, program elements, line items, financial plans, execution data, acquisition schedules, obligation plans, and program funding requirements.
Strong working knowledge of federal appropriations law, including purpose, time, and amount limitations, and experience evaluating lawful realignment or reprogramming alternatives.
Ability to determine whether funding is genuinely available, executable, legally appropriate, and supportable before senior Navy and congressional stakeholders.
Experience advising and briefing senior executives, flag or general officers, Senior Executive Service personnel, or comparable decision-makers.
Active Top Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

Review Navy budget submissions, justification materials, program exhibits, financial plans, execution reports, acquisition schedules, spend plans, congressional actions, and other financial-management information.
Identify potential funding sources for defense industrial base priorities, including underexecution, unobligated balances, revised or declining requirements, schedule delays, contract savings, quantity changes, and prior-year resources.
Compare programmed funding with actual obligations, expenditures, contract activity, milestones, delivery schedules, and updated program assumptions to identify potential excess resources or inaccurate phasing.
Trace funding across appropriations, fiscal years, budget activities, program elements, line items, projects, resource sponsors, systems commands, and program offices.
Assess whether program funding remains required, executable, properly phased, and supported by credible acquisition and obligation schedules.
Develop funding alternatives that explain the amount potentially available, appropriation and fiscal year, timing, restrictions, decision authority, approval requirements, program effects, execution risks, and recommended next action.
Evaluate the potential use of Operations and Maintenance, Research Development Test and Evaluation, Procurement, Military Construction, Defense Production Act, Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment, National Defense Stockpile, and other applicable resources or authorities.
Apply purpose, time, and amount principles and identify when a proposed action requires legal, comptroller, acquisition, OSD, or congressional review, notification, reprogramming, transfer authority, or future budget action.
Distinguish temporary execution delays from structural overfunding, changed requirements, or funds unlikely to be obligated within their period of availability.
Advise DASN DIB leadership on Navy Planning Programming Budgeting and Execution processes, timelines, decision forums, documentation, and organizational responsibilities.
Analyze Program Objective Memorandum, Budget Estimate Submission, President's Budget, congressional adjustments, execution-year developments, unfunded requirements, and proposed industrial base investments.
Prepare funding assessments, budget drills, decision memoranda, issue papers, executive briefings, and multi-year resource strategies for senior Department of the Navy leaders.
Coordinate with ASN Financial Management and Comptroller, OPNAV resource sponsors, systems commands, program executive offices, program managers, OSD organizations, counsel, and other stakeholders.
Present independent findings professionally, including conclusions that differ from program estimates or established funding positions, and document sources, assumptions, limitations, and unresolved questions.