Financial Manager; Functional Team Lead

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Full-Time, Hybrid

Frederick, Maryland

Join a mission-focused team where your financial expertise directly supports the development and delivery of critical technologies for the Department of Defense. As the Financial Management Functional Team Lead, you will influence strategic investment decisions, long-range program planning, and acquisition activities while working with senior leaders across complex research, development, and modernization initiatives. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine financial management, cost analysis, and program strategy in support of high-impact national defense programs.

• Serves as the Financial Management Functional Team Lead, coordinating assigned financial management activities and supporting the timely, accurate, and consistent completion of team deliverables.
• Supports the development of the current and annual Strategic Portfolio Analysis Review (SPAR), Program Objective Memorandum (POM) builds, and spend plan for Department of Defense (DoD) appropriations, including Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E);
  Procurement; and Operations and Maintenance (O&M) funding.
• Helps ensure requirements are scientifically and programmatically aligned with strategic objectives.
• Supports Product Managers and Cost Analysts by applying standard cost-estimating techniques, including the Life Cycle Cost Estimate (LCCE), Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), and other methodologies relevant to SPAR and POM submissions.
• Develops and informs financial schedules supporting life cycle cost estimation, long-range program planning, and acquisition-related financial deliverables.
• Supports annual spend-plan development, budget formulation and justification, execution monitoring, status reporting, and the preparation of decision-review packages, business cases, and fiscal-risk reviews.
• Coordinates and consolidates financial data to produce monthly reports tracking obligations and disbursements; analyzes programmatic planning and execution data; and updates and reconciles financial appropriations against actual budget execution.
• Supports and monitors the acquisition process using designated financial and contract management systems to ensure contracts, grants, and other agreements are appropriately executed and funded.
• Researches contract awards and modifications to support the clearing of Unliquidated Obligations before funds expire; maintains financial records; and tracks planned expenditures against invoiced expenses.
• Supports the preparation of pre-contract documentation, including cabinet creation, contract-package preparation, and Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGEs).

• Bachelor’s degree in a…