Army Senior Program Associate-Financial Management

Key Responsibilities

• Execute defined workstreams with appropriate guidance, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of outputs.
• Develop clear, structured deliverables - including briefings, analyses, frameworks, reports, and program artifacts - that support client decision-making and program progress.
• Support day-to-day client interactions through meeting preparation, note-taking, action tracking, stakeholder follow-up, and synthesis of inputs.
• Build a strong understanding of client mission priorities and connect day-to-day activities to broader organizational goals.
• Contribute to agile, sprint-based execution cycles while managing multiple tasks, changing priorities, and dependencies.
• Anticipate potential issues, recommend practical solutions or process improvements, capture lessons learned, and help refine tools, frameworks, and methodologies.

Financial Management & Resource Alignment

• Work with the Government business manager and program stakeholders to execute resource alignment and ensure fiscal activities directly support mission objectives.
• Track and analyze budgets, spend, performance metrics, cycle time, throughput, and decision velocity to improve leadership visibility and resource decisions.
• Translate complex financial and spend data into clear, actionable insights for program leadership and other non-finance stakeholders.
• Conduct discovery and analysis across acquisition, funding, and requirements processes to identify bottlenecks, gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Support development of ROI and impact models, risk assessments, down-select frameworks, transition-readiness assessments, and future investment strategies.
• Support the design, documentation, and validation of financial operating models, workflows, governance structures, decision frameworks, and repeatable playbooks.
• Cook up inputs among finance, acquisition, contracting, program, and mission stakeholders to maintain accurate status, resolve issues, and keep actions moving.

Skills And Experience Required

• 2-3 years of relevant professional experience in consulting, government, defense, operations, finance, program delivery, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop practical next steps.
• Experience producing high-quality, client-ready deliverables using PowerPoint, Excel, and written reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the judgment to tailor information for working teams and senior leaders.
• The ability to manage multiple tasks, priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with or interest in government acquisition, innovation, technology integration, and mission delivery.
• Comfort working in agile, iterative delivery environments with evolving requirements and multiple stakeholders.
• The ability to communicate clearly, maintain attention to detail, and create reliable follow-through without waiting for continuous direction.
• Curiosity, adaptability, resilience, and eagerness to learn in a mission-driven setting.

Financial Management Specialty Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency in financial management, budget tracking, spend analysis, performance measurement, and data analysis that supports resource alignment and ROI modeling.
• Experience developing or maintaining financial trackers, resource-allocation views, forecasts, decision-support analyses, or related management products.
• Familiarity with government acquisition and defense contracting is preferred, including an understanding of how funding, requirements, and contract actions interact.
• Prior military service is not required.

Pay

Salary range: $79,000 to $98,000 plus bi-annual bonuses

Schedule

Not specified

Benefits

Not specified

Qualifications

Top Secret clearance is strongly preferred. Eligibility for clearance is required.

Skills

Take ownership of your workstreams and consistently deliver high-quality outputs.

Proactive in identifying problems, coordination gaps, resource issues, and thoughtful solutions.

Connect day-to-day tasks, financial decisions, and operational actions to broader mission and organizational priorities.

Thrive in structured but fast-moving environments with evolving requirements and multiple stakeholders.

Communicate clearly, maintain attention to detail, and create reliable follow-through without waiting for continuous direction.

Curious, adaptable, resilient, and eager to learn in a mission-driven setting.