Senior Budget Analyst

MDW Associates is seeking a Senior
Budget Analyst to provide sound financial stewardship, expert analysis, and innovative approaches to our National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) client at Stennis Space Center, Bay St, Louis, MS. This position is onsite, so candidates must be able/willing to commute to NASA (SSC).

The Senior Budget Analyst may perform a combination of some or all of the following duties:

• Serving as an analyst to systematically integrate business, cost estimating and financial management processes aiding to ensure the efficient stewardship of public funds
• Supporting the formulation of strategic financial plans correlates financing requirements into executable budgets
• Understanding data relationships;
  Loading data into data sources and link to Power BI;
  Creating visualizations and dashboards to answer relevant cost performance questions
• Power Query:
  Writing, reading, and modifying advanced queries
• Analyzing monthly cost data to spot inconsistencies, identifying issues (formula and data load), and resolving discrepancies to reconcile records
• Reviewing videos, writing processes, and consolidating questions;
  Working independently with the data to learn and understand the current needs
• Writing and reading formulas, such as SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX(MATCH);
  Understanding the paramount importance of data integrity and data formatting
• Possessing thorough knowledge of the allocation, execution, and administration of approved budgets
• Collaborating with customers to develop new applications or improve existing applications (including workflow processes) to increase functionality, synergy, and efficiencies
• Assessing products and procedures for compliance with Government standards, accounting principles, internal controls, and multi-tiered system application standards
• Ensuring that tasks are completed in the time frame specified by the client and assist in the preparation of milestone status reports and presentations for colleagues, subordinates, management, and end user representatives
• Meeting all time sensitive report deadlines and accepting new assignments with varying requirements; delivering to a high level of completeness and accuracy
• May serve as a mentor and resource for junior contractor budget analysts assisting with their development
• May leverage expertise to support multiple Organizations and/or Centers

• Specialized experience in financial data processing, combining data sources and communicating results
• Advanced computer skills with proficiency in Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX(MATCH)
• Intermediate level proficiency with Power BI
  • Power Query for data sourcing/transformation
  • Data Visualization
  • Experience connecting Power BI and Excel to other data sources
• Proficient in accounting systems and processes
• Familiar with activity-based costing, business case analysis and outsourcing requirements
• Strong system documentation skills
• Must be able to grasp interrelationships between financial management requirements and automated solutions, considering the current system environment and the potential integration of added systems concurrently or later
• Candidates for this position must have a demonstrated ability to work independently as well as with teams

• Candidates with 1+ years of NASA experience are highly preferred
• Financial knowledge of/experience with government funding life cycle (such as - appropriations, budget, commitments, obligations, cost, disbursements), basic account reconciliation skills

• Candidates for this position must possess a BA/BS degree in related field (accounting, finance, etc.)

• Candidates for this position will be subject to a background investigation and must meet the eligibility requirements to obtain a Public Trust (requires US Citizenship).

Incorporated in 2012, MDW is a small business headquartered in McLean, VA. We provide Federal government clients with consulting, management services, advisory and assistance services, decision support, strategic planning, process planning and improvement, task execution and metrics analysis. Our mission is to make our clients more successful by providing honest assessments, exceptional analysis, prudent advice, direct communication and hard work.

• Accounting Support Services
• Strategic Planning
• Cost Estimating
• Budget Programming and Justification
• Budget Execution
• Acquisition Management
• Financial Systems Support & Integration

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits and compensation package for our employees, including but not limited to:

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Group Life Insurance/Long Term Disability/Short Term Disability
• Retirement/401(k)

MDW Associates, LLC ("MDW") is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age,…