Senior Principal Consultant – IC PPBE Functional

Senior Principal Consultant – IC PPBE Functional Reston, VA - Full Time

BT-419 - Senior Principal Consultant – IC PPBE Functional Skill Level
- Subject Matter Expert

Location:

Reston, VA (fully on-site, no remote option)
** Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.**

Bespoke Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Principal Consultant with deep knowledge of the IC CFO Integrated Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (IPPBE) process. This individual will serve as a senior functional and technical liaison between business stakeholders, program leadership, end users, and application development teams. The successful candidate will understand IPPBE business processes, underlying data structures, and relationships across planning, programming, budgeting, and execution data.

The consultant will work closely with end users to identify business needs, translate use cases into clear functional and technical requirements, validate application functionality and reporting accuracy, and support the successful adoption of the solution. This role requires strong experience in requirements management, data validation, application testing, reporting and dashboard development, stakeholder communication, user training, and product demonstrations.

• Significant experience supporting IC CFO, IPPBE, PPBE, federal financial management, budgeting, or resource-planning processes.
• Strong understanding of IPPBE data, data relationships, business rules, and reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with financial, budget, program, operational, and technical stakeholders.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, analyzing, and managing complex business and functional requirements.
• Experience translating business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical implementation guidance.
• Hands-on experience performing application testing, report validation, data reconciliation, and defect management.
• Experience validating the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of financial or budget-related reports.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing dashboards and reports using Oracle Analytics Cloud or any other business intelligence/analytics application.
• Experience facilitating end-user training, application demonstrations, requirements workshops, and stakeholder presentations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple requirements, use cases, testing activities, and stakeholder priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams.

• Serve as a subject-matter expert for the IC CFO IPPBE process, including planning, programming, budgeting, and execution activities.
• Understand IPPBE data, business rules, data relationships, reporting requirements, and dependencies across functional areas.
• Communicate with stakeholders using relevant CFO, financial management, budgeting, and IPPBE terminology.
• Analyze complex business processes and identify opportunities to improve reporting, analytics, data quality, and application usability.

• Engage end users and business stakeholders to understand operational needs, reporting requirements, and application use cases.
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions, workshops, interviews, and process reviews.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical guidance for the development team.
• Ensure the technical team understands the business purpose, expected outcomes, data relationships, and reporting logic associated with each requirement.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of all approved requirements and use cases.
• Work with the Project Manager to document, track, and manage requirements through a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Trace requirements through design, development, testing, implementation, and user acceptance.
• Identify gaps, conflicts, dependencies, and changes in requirements and communicate their impacts to project leadership.

• Develop and execute functional, integration, regression, and user-acceptance test scenarios for the IPPBE application.
• Validate that implemented functionality meets documented requirements and approved use cases.
• Test reporting workflows, dashboard interactions, filters, calculations, drill-down capabilities, and data outputs.
• Validate the completeness and accuracy of data presented in application reports and dashboards.
• Reconcile report results against authoritative data sources, business rules, and expected financial outcomes.
• Document defects, data discrepancies, and functional issues with sufficient detail for technical teams to investigate and…