Defense & Security, Financial System Implementation Readiness Consultant

Job Family: Finance & Accounting Consulting

Travel Required: Up to 10%

Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust

• Help clients identify, evaluate, and solve complex challenges to achieve strategic goals and objectives.
• Partner on transformation of business processes, improving operational efficiency, evaluating internal controls, strengthening policies, increasing transparency, performance management, and ensuring compliance with federal laws and regulations.
• Provide solutions on your own or in a highly skilled team.
• Engage with senior client management and develop technical, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development skills.
• Support the Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand to other national security-related organizations.
• Assess financial implementations against audit readiness criteria, including system architecture, business process design, customizations, data quality, interfaces, cutover readiness, and reporting.
• Review process documentation and risk control matrices to identify nonstandard or outdated processes and recommend standardized solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize workflows to strengthen automation, improve efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and enhance audit readiness.
• Analyze impacts of financial system modernization throughout the program lifecycle.
• Review legacy and migrated financial, accounting, and reporting data.
• Collaborate with clients, project team members, and stakeholders to support data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Support ongoing migration activities by adapting analyses and deliverables as requirements and priorities evolve.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust; must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• One (1) year of experience in finance, accounting, financial management, audit, or a related financial field.

• Understanding of accounting, audit or audit-support environments.
• Experience working in DHS or Active DHS clearance.
• Experience in financial data analysis and reconciliations.
• Familiarity with working with large datasets and source systems.
• Federal financial awareness.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills to document decisions, issues, and report outcomes.
• Strong abilities in tracking action items, closing the loop, and following through without repeated prompting.
• Ability to support stakeholders in fast-moving, multi-vendor/stakeholder environment.

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan Pay Down Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer, protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation. Guidehouse will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law and the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.