Financial Analyst

About the role

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.

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, RDT&E documentation, R-2s, 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.
• Cook up 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.
• Aid in the preparation of spend plans and expenditure plans.
• Aid 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.
• Prepare client’s program responses to multiple unannounced financial taskers from Comptroller and other financial chain of command organizations.

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.

Benefits

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

Pay

Full Time Salary Range for this position for this position: $99,000—$144,000 USD

Schedule

Not specified