Financial Manager, Journeyman

Responsibilities

• Assists, prepares, develops, and delivers compliant documents in support of a variety of financial management activities.
• Applies knowledge of financial management and accounting functions, processes, and analytical methods and techniques to gather, analyze, evaluate and present information required by program or project managers and customers.
• Prepares program budgets, reports and financial documentation, draw conclusions and draft solutions to funding/budgeting requirements and problems relating to improvement of financial management effectiveness, work methods, financial systems, and procedure efficiency.
• Performs budget forecasting tasks, variance identification and analysis, program or financial execution reporting and reviews, schedule analysis, Earned Value Management (EVM) analysis and/or provide recommendations to the program office on all matters relating to budget, schedule or EVM.
• Performs fact finding, analytical, and advisory functions and compile division level financial material from a variety of sources in support of various tasks and requirements for financial metrics, management internal control program, and routine reporting.
• Assists, prepares, and/or delivers budget and financial analyses and execution documentation, such as, but not limited to obligations and expenditure forecasting and tracking data.
• Advises or assists with the development of program specific funds management documentation, and/or assists in the execution of automated models and control techniques to aid decision making.
• Drafts financial data documentation for submission to the Government financial lead/analyst such as but not limited to Procurement Documents (P-DOCS), Research Test Development and Evaluation Documents (R-DOCS) and Program Objective Memorandum (POM).
• Provides status of approved, deferred, and released funds using new or existing organizational formats.
• Identifies, prepares and assists with correction of errors in financial records.
• Drafts a variety of funding documents in support of unit/organizational programs such as but not limited to Purchase Requests (PRs), (MIPRs), project orders and other financial documents IAW FM policy and regulations.
• Generates, maintains and documents an independent audit trail to track, record, and report the status of each funding document to ensure proper use of all funds (active, expired, and cancelled).
• Generates and delivers quick-turnaround “what-if” funding drill and/or data retrieval analysis.
• Maintains a soft copy of the monthly Delivery Order Status Reports (DOSR) and Contract Funds Status Reports (CFSR) in support of programmatic analysis.
• Assists in internal and external requirements management by validating sales reports, collecting and tracking revenue, developing sales and revenue projections, budgets projections, revenue collection from contract vendors, assistance in processing travel orders, and generating financially related metric reports.
• Maintains the financial database, input financial and contracting data, and extract ad hoc reports.

Qualifications

• Must have an active and transferable DoD Secret security clearance with current investigation at the required level.
• Must be able to maintain the required clearance.
• Associate degree and 10 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed, 3 of which must be in the DoD environment.
• OR, bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline being performed some of which must be in the DoD environment.
• Master’s degree and 2 years of experience preferably in the DoD environment.
• Knowledge, experience and demonstrated ability to perform tasks related to the technical/professional discipline they are performing.
• Ability to work independently and apply the proper procedures and process related to their area of expertise.
• Ability to solve problems and troubleshoot various situations to develop successful outcomes within established program/project guidelines.