Senior​/Principal Financial Operations Specialist - Retirement Plan Compliance & Data Analytics, Onsite

Senior/Principal Financial Operations Specialist - Retirement Plan Compliance & Data Analytics, Onsite

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Organization 10577, Retirement Plan Compliance and Data Analytics is currently seeking a Financial Operations Specialist to expand the Finance & Accounting Data Analytics Function and strengthen the Laboratory's financial and business processes through executive decision support, proactive risk mitigation, and business optimization. The role will leverage data transformation and analytics techniques, artificial intelligence, comprehensive data mining tools, and other emerging technologies to deliver financial and business insights and solutions for Executive Leadership.

This role will position the Finance & Accounting Center to have a greater impact on how the organization identifies opportunities, manages risk, makes decisions, and delivers solutions. The selected candidate will work on a diverse portfolio of data analytics projects for the Center, Division, and Laboratories.

On any given day, you may be called on to:

• Prepare and interpret financial and operational data to support Executive Leadership and management decision-making, including recommending process improvements, advising on policy interpretation, and assessing operational risk,
• Anticipate and communicate financial and business issues through financial analysis, forecasting, modeling, and scenario analysis,
• Analyze and improve financial and business processes by simplifying, standardizing, and reducing inefficiencies and risk,
• Lead and support cross-functional teams and strategic initiatives across Finance & Accounting, Business Portfolio Offices, IT, and other organizations,
• Develop and maintain financial/business reporting, analytics, dashboards, applications, or other data products that provide actionable insights for management,
• Integrate, transform, and analyze data from multiple enterprise systems using SQL and other analytical tools,
• Partner with business and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into practical reporting, data, automation, and technology solutions,
• Automate manual, repetitive, or error-prone processes using analytics platforms, programming, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and other emerging technologies,
• Evaluate emerging technologies to identify opportunities to improve processes, reduce risk, and increase organizational efficiency,
• Support audit and risk-management activities, including Inspector General (IG) data requests and data-driven audit risk mitigation,
• Build organizational capability by expanding analytics resources, promoting data quality and documentation, and developing maintainable solutions.

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