Senior Principal Consultant – IC PPBE Functional

Reston, VA

BT-419 - Senior Principal Consultant – IC PPBE Functional

Skill Level
- Subject Matter Expert

Location
- Reston, VA

** 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

IPPBE Functional Expertise

• 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.

Business Analysis and Requirements Management

• 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…