Logistics Acquisition Manager
About the role
This position serves as the primary point of contact between financial auditors and the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Depot Complexes. The role ensures compliance with financial reporting standards, improves financial and operational management processes, and responds to financial audits. The Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command (HQ AFMC) mission is to develop, deliver, support, and sustain agile war-winning capabilities.
HQ AFMC is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WP AFB), Ohio. The HQ AFMC Directorate of Logistics, Civil Engineering, Force Protection, and Nuclear Integration (HQ AFMC/A4/10) shapes the workforce and infrastructure to provide logistics, sustainment, and installation support for acquisition logistics, supply management, depot maintenance, and base-level logistics operations.
Responsibilities
- Review audit reports, processes, and documentation to identify areas for improvement and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
- Coordinate and facilitate meetings, consultations, and training sessions between auditors and Depot Centers to ensure a clear understanding of financial reporting requirements and audit processes and outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with Depot Centers to implement financial improvements, including updating policies and procedures, implementing new processes, and training staff.
- Collaborate with Depot Centers and auditors to assist with development and responses to audit readiness plans, resolve audit findings, and assist with corrective action plans to address any audit deficiencies.
- Respond to financial audit findings and work with Depot Centers to create and review corrective action plans to address any identified issues.
- Participate in process reengineering efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of management processes.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and provide guidance to Depot Centers on management best practices, financial reporting requirements, and audit processes.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship required.
- Active Secret clearance required.
- Ability to manage multiple, shifting priorities and tight deadlines, and maintain detailed project plans and workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communications and change management, planning, and prioritization skills.
- Interpersonal and leadership skills to build relationships with key internal stakeholders responsible for decision making.
- Expert senior leadership presentation and briefing skills.
- Experience in process reengineering and improvement initiatives, including process mapping, gap analysis, and process optimization techniques.
Qualifications
A Subject Matter Expert (SME) is an individual whose qualifications and/or particular expertise are exceptional and/or highly unique. SMEs typically perform the following functions:
- Initiates, supervises, and/or develops requirements from a project's inception to conclusion for complex to extremely complex programs.
- Provides strategic advice, technical guidance, and expertise to program and project staff.
- Provides detailed analyses, evaluations, and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client-specific or mission-critical challenges/issues.
- Consults with clients to define needs or problems; supervises studies; and leads surveys to collect and analyze data to provide advice and recommend solutions.
Nice to Have Skills
- Prior experience working with AFMC Depot Centers or other DoD logistics and maintenance organizations.
- Prior experience working with financial auditors and government financial management processes, including Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) and Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) requirements.
- Government audit experience.
- Process reengineering experience.
- Working knowledge of Government or commercial heavy maintenance (depot) complex operations.
- MS Project literacy.
Schedule
Regular 3-5 day duration site visits to AFMC locations – primarily depot complexes.