Strategic Financial Analyst - Security Clearance Required

Overview

Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.

S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation’s most critical national security missions.

Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers’ missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR.

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Responsibilities

T he customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individual s to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (aka Plans and Budget Officer) .

The candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support to the PMO portfolio . The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics, provide support to financial, budget , planning and execution, and organize financial data into up-to-date records.

Key responsi bilities of the Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer include but are not limited to :

• Providing strategic and programmatic plans and budget support t o the CLOUDworks activities.
• Support Office in formulating, justifying, and defending budget build.
• Develop and maintain spend plans.
• Reconcile s spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources.
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assist s in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assist s personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible.
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over -guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming.
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor’s program build.
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analysis for the office.
• Prepares briefin gs, budget, spend plans and programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
• Collaborates with Directorate’s resourc e Management Team as required , attends resource meetings.
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

Qualifications

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS / SCI w / polygraph
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Demonstrate s professional competence as a plans and budget officer .
• Proven ability to run reports in COGNOS, track and enter BCR s in BASIS, TITAN, P6 to include tracking and assessing of execution constantly.
• Exhibit full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the executi on year and budget out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions .
• D evelops and implements long -range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years.
• Prepares budget exercise submissio ns; assimilates information about program goals , requirements, costs, and schedules;

ensures that submission is rational , defensible, and executable.

• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints remains consistent with goals ; proposed and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances .
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulatio ns, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintain background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking , and decisions to aid the component’s resource management continuity.
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrate s excellent writings skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interacts with customers , senior leadership and program managers in a highly matrixed environment .

EEO Statement

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.