Senior Budget Analyst/Program Controller (On Client Site)

Position Overview

The Senior Budget Analyst/Program Controller will support a Department of War Client in Chantilly, VA. The role involves providing financial management and program execution support to a fast-paced DoD Research & Development (R&D) office.

About the Role

The ideal candidate will bring strong DoD financial management experience, understanding of appropriations, and the ability to translate financial and programmatic data into actionable insights to support leadership investment decisions and program delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide program control and financial management expertise to support a fast-paced DoW Research & Development (R&D) office.
• Support the Program Manager in overseeing budget formulation, financial execution, and resource tracking for complex development and prototyping efforts.
• Lead program control activities, developing and managing comprehensive financial execution plans, spend plans, and budget baselines.
• Maintain cognizance of the program's adherence to financial and acquisition processes in the development, production, and test of system-level and sub-system products.
• Participate in project reviews, assess financial and schedule contract deliverables (CDRLs), and coordinate with technical review boards on decisions with broad program impact.
• Maintain cognizance over program control activities within project sub-IPTs and ensure horizontal integration of financial practices across the project.
• Review Vendor Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) to ensure product plans align with financial outlays and overall project schedule constraints.
• Work with the Program Management team and chief engineer to understand priorities and drive project execution in alignment with those priorities.
• Develop presentations, recommendations, and written communications to explain financial status, program health, and resource allocations to program management and all stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, mathematics or similar area.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance; #qinetiqclearedjob
• 10+ years supporting DoW operations and/or programs.

Skills

• Strong DoD financial management experience.
• Understanding of appropriations.
• Ability to translate financial and programmatic data into actionable insights.
• PowerBI and/or MS Project (tracking, analyzing, projecting, and visualizing funding/execution).

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with classified budgets and accounting systems/practices.
• Masters degree in finance, account, mathematics, business or similar area.
• Certified Public Accountant, or Chartered financial analysts certificates.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $135,000 - $185,000 USD.