Financial Analyst- Middle

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Secret
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Five to ten years of experience performing analysis related to financial and budget management principles. Analyzes past and present financial data of organization and estimates future revenues and expenditures, applying principles of finance. Runs and documents financial analysis projects. Aids organization with financial functions, such as assessing, auditing, planning, budgeting, taxes, consolidation, cost control, and project control. Advises management on matters, such as effective use of resources and assumptions underlying budget forecasts.

Interprets budgets and spend plans to management.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years' experience.
CERTIFICATIONS OR

QUALIFICATIONS:

CDFM desired but not required.
POSITION

DESCRIPTION:


The Middle Financial Analyst supports the planning, policy, execution, reporting, and oversight of Financial Management (FM) operations in consultation with team members, Team Lead, and Project Manager (PM) guidance. Support budget execution, cost accounting, resource evaluation and analysis (RE&A), OMB A-123, and financial statement audit initiatives. Identify and report financial system/process anomalies and improvement requirements. Serve as a liaison between stakeholders, including the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS.)

Provide technical guidance on routine financial matters. Support Fiscal Year (FY) closeout activities, including funds execution, reconciliation, validation, and certification. Support the development and delivery of financial management training, assistance, and inspection programs. Develop and deliver briefings relative to FM operations.

Specifically, the Middle Financial Analyst position will be supporting U.S. Marine Corps activities and personnel with the execution of assigned responsibilities within the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI). This includes receiving, analyzing, prioritizing, coordinating, diagnosing, and resolving requests for assistance through virtual, remote, and in-person support, primarily with geographically local activities. Routine scenarios may be resolved through the application of existing guidance and training aids while non-routine scenarios may require significant research and coordination to develop, propose, and implement service-wide solutions.

Duties and expectations include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Knowledge of business processes, DAI reports, and feeder system tools to analyze historical financial transactions and reconcile Key Supporting Documentation (KSD) to DAI balances.
• Familiarity with and capability to access, navigate, and transact within DAI.
• Familiarity with DAI modules:
  Budget-to-Report (B2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Cost Accounting (CA), and reporting through Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).
• Provide functional and technical expertise to assist the workforce in the execution of their assigned responsibilities.
• Integrate job aids/quick reference guides specific to the USMC configuration, encompassing the most commonly performed business processes into informal training opportunities to increase proficiency across the user base.
• Establish a system for continuous monitoring of data interfaces to proactively identify and address potential issues before they cause significant accounting problems in DAI. This includes monitoring for data completeness, timeliness, and accuracy.
• Investigate the root causes of "abnormal accounting conditions" within DAI by tracing data anomalies back to their origin in the specific feeder system (ARMS, PBIS, etc.)
• Redesign data management processes that are prone to errors. This may involve implementing stricter data entry protocols in feeder systems or enhancing the automated validation checks at the point of interface with DAI.
• Implement a systematic approach to correct identified data errors across all affected systems. This ensures that corrections in DAI are reflected in the source feeder system to prevent future discrepancies.
• Conduct a thorough review of data flowing from feeder systems (e.g., ARMS, PBIS) to the core accounting system (e.g., DAI). Identify and document inconsistencies, mapping errors, and areas of concern at the data interface points.
• Create a standardized process for correcting data errors originating from feeder systems. This includes documenting the error's source, the correction made in both the feeder and core systems, and implementing…