Financial Analyst

About the role

The Financial Analyst will partner with technical counterparts to facilitate effective project execution through cost management. The focus is on accurate, complete and responsive reporting.

Required Skills

• Perform various weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting.
• Moderate understanding of financial concepts.
• Ability to interpret financial data to determine impacts to the overall program and to recognize patterns or gaps in patterns that indicate further investigation is needed.
• Ability to debug financial calculations using common sense and recalculation.
• Ability to conceptually understand calculations and tasks and use that understanding to propose process improvements and new processes.

Highly Desired Skills

• Familiar with Earned Value Management (EVM) calculations.
• Experience with "baseline" calculations and analyses (i.e. actuals vs. baseline comparisons) for time and material government contracts.
• Experience in government contracting and risk management (i.e. financial compliance with respect to DCAA regulations).
• Conduct bottoms-up and top-down cost estimating for annual contract years, and additional scope as requested by the Customer.
• Perform variance analysis and review justification for control accounts that have exceeded cost or schedule thresholds and ensure funding is properly allocated and tracked.
• Support preparation of DCMA surveillances.
• Support the effort of finalizing the end of the contract year expenditures.
• Create Ad Hoc reports on an as needed basis.
• Ability to quickly and accurately learn new calculations based on prior examples and instruction.

Additional Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or similar field of discipline.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to perform under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to accomplish tasks and balance projects within cost and time constraints.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while also possessing a strong ability to cooperate and work with a team.
• Must be able to obtain and keep a DoD Secret Clearance which means you must be a U.S. Citizen.

Benefits

• Competitive benefit package.

Pay

$75,000 - $100,000

Schedule

Full-Time Employee, 40 hours/week. Start date negotiable.

Job Location

Manassas, VA. (Relocation Assistance Available)