Budget/Financial Analyst

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

The Sponsor seeks a knowledgeable and motivated budget analyst with previous experience using the Sponsor's systems. Job duties and qualifications include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provides strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to groups responsible for a high-visibility Special Access Program
• Supports groups in formulating, justifying, and defending the budget build
• Develops and maintains spend plans
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or underutilization of resources
• Stays current with all Customer and Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance
• Assists staff in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the program build
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analyses
• Prepares briefings, budgets, spend plans, and supports programmatic activities
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget-related taskings
• Collaborates with Resource Management as required; attends/supports resource meetings
• Continually interfaces with executive-level management, requiring the planning, presenting, and briefing of information

Additional required qualifications:

• Demonstrates professional competence as a planning and budget officer

• Exhibits full awareness of financial resource requirements for both the execution year and budget out-years

• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions

• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years

• Prepares budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable

• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposes and implements resource alignment, including from multiple sources, as required or in response to unplanned circumstances

• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes

• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, rationale, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity

• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills

• Demonstrates excellent writing skills, with the ability to craft clear, concise requests for funding and responses to taskings

• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues

• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment

Additional desired skills:

• Awareness of the Sponsor's programs, policies, and systems

• Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment

Required Qualifications:

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• A degree (or equivalent experience) in quantitative analysis, financial analysis, social sciences, or a closely related field
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Knowledge of strategic planning and resource management processes
• Knowledge of program planning and execution processes
• Knowledge of business resource planning practices and cost analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timely reporting of data
• Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices
• Knowledge of program risk assessment principles and processes
• Ability to apply analytic and diagnostic techniques and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate, and recommend substantive solutions to managers to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of IC strategic planning and resource management processes
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Strong oral and written communications and interpersonal skills

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