Senior Associate - Senior Budget Analyst

About the role

This fully remote position supports sophisticated financial management activities for a federal client, contributing to sound financial stewardship and informed decision-making. You will play a key role in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, rate development, and cost-recovery initiatives. The role requires strong analytical capabilities to turn complex financial data from multiple sources into clear, actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Support annual budgeting cycles, recurring forecasts, and monthly budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual analyses.
• Analyze expenditures, revenues, consumption, costs, and financial trends to identify significant variances, underlying drivers, and emerging financial issues.
• Support the development and ongoing maintenance of IT service rates, financial models, cost-recovery analyses, and customer impact assessments.
• Gather, validate, reconcile, and analyze financial and operational information from multiple sources to ensure data integrity and consistency.
• Build and maintain Excel-based budget, forecasting, rate development, and financial analysis models, including supporting schedules, tables, and reporting tools.
• Prepare financial summaries, service-line and portfolio-level reports, executive presentations, and management briefing materials.
• Evaluate customer consumption, demand, service mix, and proposed rate changes to determine potential financial impacts.
• Contribute to process improvements, standard operating procedures, financial templates, and recurring reporting tools that improve efficiency and consistency.
• Maintain clear documentation of financial assumptions, methodologies, reconciliations, model updates, and analytical conclusions.
• Collaborate with senior analysts, finance teams, project leadership, and business stakeholders to deliver accurate, well-supported financial analysis on schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
• At least 4 years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, accounting, cost analysis, or a related financial discipline.
• At least 2 years of experience with financial modeling, budget-to-actual or forecast-to-actual variance analysis, and evaluation of financial trends and drivers.
• At least 2 years of hands-on Microsoft Excel experience organizing, reconciling, and analyzing financial information from multiple sources.
• Strong proficiency with Excel formulas, lookups, pivot tables, financial calculations, and structured financial models.
• Experience developing or maintaining Excel-based financial models and recurring financial reports is preferred.
• Experience with rate development, cost recovery, billing analysis, or customer impact analysis is a plus.
• Experience reconciling financial, billing, operational, or consumption data across multiple systems is desirable.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong commitment to financial-data accuracy.
• Ability to clearly document financial assumptions, methodologies, analytical approaches, reconciliations, and results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial information to technical and non-financial stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior analysts, finance professionals, project leaders, and business stakeholders.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and able to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance.
• Strong judgment, organization, follow-through, and the ability to manage multiple analytical priorities are essential.

Benefits

• Fully remote position within the United States.
• Competitive salary range of $60,000–$80,000, with individual compensation determined by factors including education, experience, skills, and geographic location.
• Comprehensive medical benefits, including dental and vision coverage.
• 401(k) contribution plan.
• Holiday and personal time off.
• Professional development, training, and certification benefits.
• Health and wellness subsidies.
• Paid time off for community service.
• Opportunities to contribute to meaningful federal financial management initiatives.
• Supportive environment focused on professional growth, financial accuracy, and mission impact.