FINANCE MANAGER

Company Description

The Red Gate Group, founded in 2006, is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Company based in Chantilly, VA, providing Systems Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) support to clients across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Our motto, Making a Difference for Country and Client, reflects our deep commitment to national security and service excellence. As an employer of choice, we offer comprehensive benefits including flexible time off, 11 paid holidays, immediate 401(k) eligibility with a generous match, and full medical, dental, and vision coverage through Anthem. Our employees enjoy 100% company-paid life insurance and disability benefits, along with professional development assistance for degrees and certifications. We foster a culture of growth and work-life balance, backed by our commitment to supporting both our clients' missions and our employees' success. Join our team and be part of an organization that values both service excellence and employee wellbeing.

Job Description

This position will function as the Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) Finance Manager for the DTRA Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Directorate. CTR works with partner countries to prevent the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and eliminate chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. This contractor role primarily manages the Directorate's finances at both a high-level and daily operation.

The CTR Finance Manager is responsible for all levels of finance, including daily oversight, ability to strategically manage three active years of money, provision of long-term recommendations for department finance management, and creation of fiscal year Program Objective Memorandums (POMs).

DUTIES

• Serve as lead Finance Manager for the CTR Directorate.
• Utilize ADVANA to extract data, verify historical data, and create reports as needed.
• Ability to track obligations and de-obligations of O&M funding.
• Assess budget transactions for risk and realism.
• Update the financial charts for the CTR business meeting.
• Update the Funding Profile as needed, and reconcile to JSCBIS / JICAP data provided by FM team.
• Update the CTR FM SharePoint site, upload data, and maintain the CTR budget.
• Analyze financial data by program.
• Manages burn and expenditure rates on existing contracts to mitigate ULOs.
• Review the Bi-Monthly Business Meeting Slides and validate the financial information is correct.
• Produce the weekly Financial Operations Report.
• Develops and leads recurring finance briefings to prepare Government financial management leadership team for Directorate level business meetings.
• Create and analyze year-end financial results.
• Create year-end cumulative investment charts.
• Pull and validate the financial information for input into high-visibility reports such as the Annual Report to Congress.
• Liaises between clients and computer engineering teams to translate high-level financial needs into concrete technical tasks.
• Maintains overall planning and oversight of the Directorate's financial calendar and the annual management cycle.
• Suggests ways to improve and streamline financial operations.
• Support Annual Spend Plan preliminary in July, including creating Excel files for the Spend Plan brief and Program Objective Memorandum (POM) build process.
• Pull data for programs' semi-annual data for reports (end of June / December).
• Input financial figures into the Spend Plan briefing for Sr. Leadership.
• Run a weekly report for the Web Application Tool (WAT) Spend Plan, and compare the Government's Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) obligations to WAT awards.
• Update Excel files with current data.
• Identifies potential risks and proposes mitigation strategies.
• Review WAT Business slides and finance slides for accuracy bi-monthly to support the CTR Business Meeting.
• Audit the WAT data for data accuracy across all programs (Central and Global, Europe, Indo-Pacific, Africa, Mission Integration).
• Review that cost model data is in alignment with actual obligations / expenditures in DAI financial data.
• Provide custom data pulls for request contract Obligations and ULOs.
• Addresses recurring and ad hoc budget-related RFIs / RFPs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

DESIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Additional Information

The Red Gate Group, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. The Red Gate Group, Ltd. considers applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by federal, state, or local law. EEO is the Law