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Financial Analyst

Arlington, VA

Company Overview:

ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service.

Position Summary:
Analytic Services, Inc. (ANSER) is seeking a Financial Analyst in the Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution (WIRE) Office / Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (IBP). In this key role, you will support IBP's mission to provide detailed analyses and in-depth understanding of the increasingly global, commercial, and financially complex industrial supply chain essential to our national defense.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

  • Prepare, review, and initiate budget execution documents, including Purchase Requests (PRs), Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs), Intergovernmental Transactions (IGTs), and other funding documents.
  • Monitor and analyze daily commitments, obligations, expenditures, and available balances to ensure accurate execution of assigned portfolios.
  • Perform detailed financial reconciliations across multiple financial management systems and tracking tools to validate execution data and ensure financial integrity.
  • Develop and maintain complex financial models, dashboards, trackers, and analytical reports using intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, charts, and data analysis techniques.
  • Prepare funding forecasts, obligation plans, spend plans, and execution analyses to support program management and senior leadership decision-making.
  • Analyze financial trends, identify execution risks, and recommend corrective actions to improve program execution and financial performance.
  • Prepare executive-level briefings, funding status reports, scorecards, budget exhibits, and financial presentations for senior Department of Defense leadership.
  • Lead or participate in recurring financial execution meetings, presenting execution status, funding recommendations, and financial analysis.
  • Support Dormant Account Quarterly Reviews (DAR-Q), Unliquidated Obligation (ULO) reviews, and other financial compliance requirements.
  • Apply Department of Defense financial policies, regulations, and procedures, including the DoD Financial Management Regulation (DoD FMR), to ensure compliance with applicable guidance.
  • Support all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, including budget formulation, execution, reconciliation, and financial reporting.
  • Provide support in developing budget justification materials, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) documentation, Research and Development Descriptive Summaries (R-2s), Program Objective Memorandum (POM) inputs, Mid-Year Reviews, Issue Papers, Budget Estimate Submissions (BES), and other budget products.
  • Respond to time-sensitive financial data calls, Congressional inquiries, Comptroller taskers, leadership requests, and other ad hoc financial analyses.
  • Coordinate with government customers, program managers, contracting offices, and other stakeholders to resolve funding and execution issues.
  • Work effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with competing priorities and rapidly changing requirements while consistently meeting established deadlines.
  • Assist in the preparation of spend plans and expenditure plans.
  • Assist in the Dormant Account Quarterly Reviews (DARQ).
  • Prepare financial information for briefings, presentations, and status reports as needed in support of ad hoc requests.
  • Develop and maintain financial and budget spreadsheets for analysis and reporting across entire program.
  • Lead financial meetings to discuss execution data and status of funds.
  • Perform reconciliations of assigned funds and projects.
  • Apply concepts of budget, program principles, policies, procedures, standards, terminology, and knowledge of the financial management and business operation systems of the organization, and knowledge of the DoD Financial Management Regulation.
  • Support the full range of DOD’s complex Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE) System to justify/defend/protect/execute resources within the program’s financial portfolio.
  • Provide funding, forecasting, programming, budget information, comparison of budget plan to execution status, and funds reconciliation, using the required Financial Management tools and systems, and provide frequent status reports/graphs, including obligation/expenditures execution rates.
  • Contribute to the development of program and budget submissions (i.e., Midyear Reviews, Issue Papers, and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Documents (R-DOCs) and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries (R-2s) and Program Office Memorandum (POMs) inputs).
  • Prepare client’s program responses to multiple unannounced financial taskers from Comptroller and other financial chain of command organizations.

Required Qualifications:

  • Possess an active Secret security clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field; or 10+ years of directly related DoD financial management experience.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting Department of Defense financial management, budget execution, or PPBE activities.
  • 2+ years of experience supporting 7600A/7600B Interagency Agreements.
  • Experience with Department of Defense financial management systems and business processes
  • Experience preparing and processing Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs) and other funding documents.
  • Experience conducting Unliquidated Obligation (ULO) research and financial reconciliations.
  • Experience supporting Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriations.
  • Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, advanced formulas (INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS), data validation, conditional formatting, charts, and large dataset analysis.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in using budget/resource analytic tools, techniques, and processes.
  • Experience in supporting audits,
  • Experience with G-Invoicing, Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI), and / or Advana,

Individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to: business considerations, local market, internal equity, candidate qualifications such as skills, education and experience. ANSER provides employees benefits to support all aspects of their life including health, financial and well-being. For more information, please visit: http://www.anser.org  

Full Time Salary Range for this position for this position:

$99,000 - $144,000 USD

 

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with ANSER, please call 703-416-2000 or e-mail Recruiting@anser.org

ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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