[Contingent] Lead Financial Management Analyst

About the role

We are seeking a Lead Finance Manager to provide financial analysis, planning, and execution support for highly technical programs and projects. You will research, analyze, and evaluate financial and manpower data from customer systems and records to identify trends, anomalies, and potential resource gaps. You will help develop long-range financial plans, detailed budget forecasts, and multi-year funding profiles, and provide data-driven insights that support effective resource allocation and financial performance monitoring.

Focus Areas: Budget Formulation & Execution, PPBE Support, Multi-Year Resource Modeling, Financial Reporting, Audit Readiness.

Note: This position is in support of a pending proposal; employment is contingent upon contract award.

Responsibilities

• Budget Execution Analytics: Produce execution analysis (obligations vs. plan, burn rates, anomalies), monthly delta summaries, color-coded risk indicators, and variance narratives that flag projected shortfalls or overspending.
• Trend Analysis & Visualization: Deliver tables, charts, and infographics showing execution patterns by quarter; compare against historical data to identify predictive trends and crosswalk higher-level budget adjustments to organizational impacts.
• Financial Data Management: Maintain monthly financial matrices mapping manpower, procurement, research and development, and operations and maintenance lines; maintain traceability between requirements, funding lines, and appropriation categories.
• Data Integrity & Audit Readiness: Perform data-integrity checks of source systems and support 100% audit readiness with zero major discrepancies.
• PPBE Support Products: Prepare draft inputs for program objective documentation, future-years program change analysis, and unfunded requirements; build five-year resource projection models with baseline, constrained, and enhanced scenarios.
• Resource Gap & Offset Analysis: Analyze appropriation guidance, quantify shortfalls with sensitivity analysis, recommend offset strategies, and produce funding impact assessments and an annual funding constraint summary.
• Financial Reporting: Produce a monthly financial status report, quarterly fiscal health snapshots, and a watch list of sensitive accounts requiring leadership attention.
• Solicitation Support: Support preparation of requests for information and provide administrative support to technical evaluation teams.

Qualifications

• Budget & Data Analysis: Demonstrated ability to conduct comprehensive budget and data analysis to inform financial planning and execution.
• Budget Systems Expertise: Extensive experience with government manpower and budgetary databases and budget execution systems to manage and report on financial resources.
• PPBE Knowledge: Deep knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution (PPBE) process to guide financial decision-making and resource allocation.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Proven success proactively managing tasks and collaborating with stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Communication: Exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills; able to communicate complex financial information and build consensus in writing and in briefings.
• Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree and 8+ years, or PhD and 5+ years.
• Clearance: Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Skills

• Financial management professional certification (e.g., CDFM, CGFM).
• Advanced Excel modeling; experience with