Budget Financial Manager Job Listing at SPA in Alexandria, VA (Job ID 2024-19106)

Description

Qualifications

Required:

• BA or BS in business administration, finance, accounting, or a related discipline
• 5 years of specialized experience in budget formulation, planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE)
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Expertise in assisting with the preparation and tracking of financial and budgetary data
• Expertise in financial planning, processing funding documents, and budget execution
• Demonstrated ability to track and manage funding activities of obligations and expenditures; monitor program budget execution; and prepare documentation to support the budgetary process
• Comfortable engaging with senior personnel, developing budget recommendations, and providing written or verbal assessments supporting financial recommendations in real-world impact terms

Desired:

• 3 years of DoD experience in budget formulation, planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE)
• Experience interpreting the tracking of funds for assigned projects and communicating with personnel to improve efficiency
• Experience with DoD financial activity/oversight systems, e.g., Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI), Hyperion, G-Invoicing

The successful candidate will support the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Mission Capabilities (ASD(MC)) with financial management in support of the Assault Breaker II (ABII) initiative. ASD(MC) takes a unified, missions-level view across the entire DoD enterprise to analyze joint missions and identify crosscutting technology gaps critical to military readiness. ABII is a joint initiative chartered with the Services to analyze the hardest military challenges facing the U.S. and its allies. ABII is also intended to develop experiments to provide future warfighting architectures to address these challenges. Initially established at DARPA, the initiative is transitioning to ASD(MC) in Fiscal Year 2025. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and completion of budgetary deliverables. Will provide expertise in assisting with the preparation and tracking of financial and budgetary data. The successful candidate will track and manage funding activities of obligations and expenditures; monitor program budget execution; prepare documentation to support the budgetary process; identify/trace financial discrepancies and coordinate corrective action; and provide data updates to financial management tools, as required; maintain cognizance of designated program funds; and provide inputs for recurring monthly budget execution meetings.