Financial Management Analyst

• Responsible for planning, managing, reviewing, and coordinating the program planning, execution, evaluation, and financial management functions of assigned program.
• Coordinate with the Product Office Management in the development of and implementation of plans and objectives to assure that actions are in keeping with the overall objectives of the program.
• Conduct review and analysis of program progress to determine the status of resources, coordinating special and recurring reports, and may include responsibility of any portion(s) of the financial management/budgeting program.
• Perform a continuing evaluation and analysis of assigned program areas to reflect program status and identify areas requiring top management attention.
• Develop methodology for collecting, reviewing, and analyzing data from contractors and Government activities and develops and presents program data for program reviews through DOD levels for presentations, conferences display, and other management purposes.
• Collect pertinent management data from sources within the Product Office, various Government activities, and private industry.
• Review and analyze program and project schedules, technical and managerial reports, financial reports, and other pertinent data to determine program status and to provide timely information to supervisor and higher authority where potential or actual slippages occur.
• Analyze causes for slippages, determine the impact on the program, confers with technical personnel where technical problem are involved, and recommends actions.
• Assemble, classify, and summarize reported progress results and presents verbally, graphically or in written form indicating status of program progress, deficiencies, outstanding accomplishments, reasons for deviations from plans, etc.
• Discuss problem areas with personnel concerned to find reasons for failures to maintain schedules and to discuss remedial action to be taken.
• Initiate actions to ensure program requirements are met. Recommends and coordinates amendment of program where changes in missions or requirements necessitate a change in program.
• Identify need for correction of deficiencies in resources and advises supervisor on correction actions taken.
• Determine requirements for reports; develops and recommends reporting systems for dealing with other Government agencies and commercial contractors which will effectively measure progress against planned actions and internal program progress reporting system within the command management system.
• Analyze regulations, directives, and requirements placed by higher headquarters, customers, or Department of Army regarding reporting progress.
• Determine the impact of such regulations and directives on current reporting procedures.
• Determine modifications to existing or proposed reports and reporting methods necessary to properly furnish information.
• Consider nature, type functions, contents, compiling and requesting organization, and other related information in making determinations.
• Analyze frequency of submission with a view to reducing reporting through better scheduling.
• Survey reporting procedures to evaluate general reporting structures.
• Recommend consolidation, elimination, revision or improving systems considering data available in other form.
• Determine degree to which reports are justified in terms of contribution of information, manhours, and cost in preparing reports and effectiveness of procedures.
• Recommend reporting techniques or methods to assure that adequate information is furnished.
• Coordinate the preparation of special and recurring reports covering all aspects of the system review and analysis program as required by higher echelons.
• Review reports, as required, to assure conformance to policy and consonance with data previously released by project personnel.
• Prepare or provides input to other analysts in preparation of product office briefings/documents and decision papers.
• Conduct briefings, participates in meetings, and provides advice and assistance to product office management.
• May perform a variety of duties in any or all phases of the budgeting process related to development, acquisition, and deployment of the assigned system.
  • This includes duties such as
    • reviewing and analyzing the major phases of the life cycle activities for a variety of programs in terms of major funding such as RDT&E, PA, etc.
    • compiling consolidating, reviewing, analyzing and editing the program work requirements, budgets, and related documentation for the life cycle bases of assigned weapon system(s) necessary to develop plans covering requirements, schedules, sources, development and production capacities, lead time, etc.
    • developing improved budget methods, procedures, formats, and justification used in controlling program authority and funding
    • accomplishing command responsibility of controlling the receipt and distribution of formal program authorization
    • coordinating, controlling and issuing program directives authorizing work
    • maintaining central control registers providing a continuous record of program authorization and execution status.

• Active DoD Secret security clearance is required.
• BS or BA
• 3 years experience in DoD financial management
• Experience with comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCaR)
• Experience with GFEBS &/or PIEE (SDW/EDA)
• Requires knowledge of and/or skill in:
  • The operating program and the interrelationship among such program; knowledge of basic statistical, accounting, and economic principles and techniques; and a knowledge of the principles, practices, procedures, and methods of the Federal budgeting process.
  • The budgetary policies, precedents, goals, objectives, regulations, and guidelines of the employing component which apply to assigned organizations and programs; the sources, types, and methods of funding for assigned organizations and programs; and budgetary and financial relationships between the assigned budgets and program.
  • The application of methods and techniques or analyzing and evaluating the effects of continuing changes in program plans and funding on the accomplishment of the organization's budget and program milestones.

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