Defense & Security, Financial Management; FM Consultant

Position: Defense & Security, Financial Management (FM) Consultant
** Job Family**  **:*
* Finance & Accounting Consulting

** Travel Required**  **:*
* Up to 10%

** Clearance Required**  **:*
* Ability to Obtain Public Trust

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* What You Will Do:

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* The Financial Management Consultant will help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.

The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients' senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.

This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations. Specific initiatives and work products that this role may support include:

+ Supporting internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process.

+ Supporting the development and execution of corrective action plans and broader remediation strategies designed to address internal control and audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.

+ Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.

+ Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.

+ Applying a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques.

+ Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements.

+ Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others.

+ Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions.

+ Assisting clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations

+ Supporting clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making.

+ Analyzing and helping to develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs.

In addition to client-facing responsibilities, this role will support important activities that contribute to the growth of our business, strengthen internal Guidehouse operations, and create a positive work environment for all Guidehouse employees. Some of these activities include but are not limited to:

+ Assisting in business development activities, such as identifying potential client needs and ways Guidehouse can assist, developing proposals and white papers, participating in client and internal account meetings, etc.

+ Participating in Guidehouse's programs for coaching and mentoring staff

+ Assisting in the development of learning and development materials, courses, and presentations to help Guidehouse employees expand and strengthen their skills

+ Support Guidehouse programs and initiatives for recruiting top talent to the company

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* What You Will Need:

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* + Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.

+ Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, or applicable financial related field

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