Financial Manager, Senior

Key Responsibilities & Duties

• Coordinates budget formulation and management throughout all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) processes.
• Performs detailed research to develop obligation and expenditure forecasts for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E), procurement, stock funds, Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF), and operations and support funding.
• Analyzes Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System (ABIDES) outputs and maintains continuous comparison sheets tracking current positions versus prior updates.
• Utilizes the Integrated Budget Documentation and Execution System (IDECS) to prepare and update key procurement and RDT&E documents, ensuring strict reconciliation with ABIDES.
• Employs Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR) and Miscellaneous Obligation Reimbursement Document (MORD) procedures to execute rigorous monthly reviews.
• Serves as a financial representative at Security Assistance (SA) management reviews and other critical financial meetings.
• Drafts comprehensive financial briefings, delivery reports, and Notices of Supplies and Services Complete (NSSCs).
• Conducts quick-turnaround financial analyses accompanied by formal narrative justifications for urgent leadership exercises.
• Leads financial reconciliation efforts by interfacing with multiple Air Force organizations, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), prime contractors, subcontractors, and other DoD agencies.
• Researches and liquidates Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs) and Negative Unliquidated Obligations (NULOs) across all current and prior fiscal years.
• Verifies payment records against contract deliverables, identifies improper payments, and recommends corrective actions for discrepancies.
• Accounts for all overtime requests versus actual expenditure, briefing the Government regularly on overtime budget status.
• Optimizes existing tracking methods, updates procedures, and develops instructional inputs for handbooks.
• Identifies, qualifies, and evaluates schedule and cost risks contained in annual cost/budget estimates, proposing mitigation strategies.
• Develops financial inputs for core program documents including program management plans, program baselines, work breakdown structures (WBS), and risk assessments.
• Reviews and updates inputs for Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR), Monthly Acquisition Reports (MAR), and Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES).
• Supports program offices by analyzing Cost Performance Reports (CPR), Cost/Schedule Status Reports (CSSR), Contract Funds Status Reports (CFSR), and Contractor Cost Data Reports (CCDR).
• Trains multifunctional Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and surveillance review teams on advanced EVM and analysis techniques.
• Aids in material solution analyses and drafts presentations or documentation based on programmatic limits (cost, schedule, and performance) ahead of design reviews.

Required Experience

• One of the following combinations of education/experience:
• Master’s Degree (MA/MS), and twelve (12) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline, five (5) of which must be in the DoD.
• Bachelor’s Degree (BA/BS), and Fifteen (15) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline, five (5) of which must be in the DoD.
• HS Diploma, and twenty (20) years of directly related experience, eight (8) of which must be in the DoD.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams), Adobe Acrobat, and modern web browsers.
• U.S. Citizenship required; Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance required.