Financial Program Specialist

Responsibilities

• Provides assistance to the Director, Base Closure Manager (BCM) and Deputy Base Closure Managers (BCMs) in preparing, managing and overseeing budgets and execution plans.
• Affords expert level technical review and final Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) to the Director, BCM and Deputy BCMs, ensuring technical sufficiency for various documents.
• Participates in program planning and budgeting requirements.
• Develops comprehensive financial plans and manages budgets while enduring adherence to BRAC PMO polices.
• Utilizes a critical skillet to perform financial reporting and analysis.
• Prepares regular reports.
• Tracks performance.
• Provides insightful analysis to aid decision-making.
• Provides proactive risk management and compliance where potential program risks are identified and mitigated while ensuring adherence to all relevant policies and guidelines.
• Drives process improvement by identifying and implementing enhancements to procedures and controls.
• Conducts in-house research, assessments, and assists in preparing memorandums, letters and other high-level correspondence.
• Provides briefings, both written and oral on outcome of meetings and briefings and on the status of applicable BRAC programs.
• Maintains a high level of program awareness by regularly attending staff meetings, formal briefings, and informal financial management/budgeting sessions.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of six (6) years of financial and/or budgeting experience required.
• Experience with government programs, preferably Navy or DOD is desired, but not required.
• Experience directing financial policies that ensured compliance with fiduciary responsibilities, statutory requirements, regulations, procedures, and policies is desired, but not required.
• Capability in analyzing reports and data derived from financial systems, and, capable of identifying strengths and deficiencies.
• Experience resulting in the optimum use and control of financial resources for an organization/agency is desired.
• Experience as a financial advisor and technical expert to senior leaders is desired.
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, and computer skills.
• Ability to work independently to assess priorities and manage daily coordination of details with minimal supervision.
• Ability to meet requirements for a Level III Secret Clearance is required.

Skills

• Competence in analyzing reports and data derived from financial systems, and, capable of identifying strengths and deficiencies.
• Experience resulting in the optimum use and control of financial resources for an organization/agency.
• Experience as a financial advisor and technical expert to senior leaders.
• Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal, and computer skills.

Benefits

Estimated Starting Salary Range for Financial Program Specialist: Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.