Financial Analyst I

Essential Job Functions

Provides transactional and administrative finance office support to appropriated and Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF) programs. Assists with preparing and assembling funding packages; enters and validates financial data in DISA systems (e.g., FAMIS, Financial Dashboard); updates and maintains spend plans; reconciles checkbooks and economic analysis workbooks; and supports monitoring of burn rates, variances, and unliquidated obligations under senior analyst direction.

Skills

• Experience providing financial management support within the Department of War, to include production of as well as quality assurance of financial packages, briefings, and reports.
• Financial acumen to maintain, track and analyze execution of assigned programs against OSD obligation and disbursement targets, including, but not limited to: Knowledge of Defense Working Capital Fund and Appropriated Funds, DoW PPBE, DoW Program Objective Memorandum development and submission process as well as knowledge of Fiscal Law.
• Ability to analyze, report and reconcile various Excel workbooks using raw data files from enterprise financial systems in order to properly report financial status of assigned programs and/or overall IE organization.
• Ability to maintain and update Spend Plans, throughout active fiscal years, in order to assist assigned programs to remain within annual budget controls.
• Ability to analyze organization's financial status to inform and report accurate financial status to assist with processing financial funding packages and meeting OSD obligation and disbursement thresholds.
• Good verbal and written communication skills to interact with various IE counterparts, including government and support contractors.
• Ability to maintain, create and contribute to miscellaneous briefings and spreadsheets to assist with financial reports.
• Ability to perform financial reconciliation and database research (to include Unliquidated Obligations (ULO)). Understanding of reimbursable funding programs.
• Ability to perform quality assurance on contract required deliverables as needed.
• Ability to support various team assignments/tasks and work both within a team setting and independently.

Qualifications

• Required Education: Baccalaureate degree in a financial field
• Required Experience: Two or more years in DoW Financial Management related work with an emphasis on both General Funds and Defense Working Capital Funds
• Security Requirements: Position requires Secret Clearance or higher or qualify for a security clearance.