Expert, Financial Management Analyst

 Provide expert-level Financial Management support services across the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution cycles for CIO-T and the IT portfolio. Lead activities associated with interpreting and applying IC/DoD/NGA planning and programming guidance, managing CIO-T’s program build development process, developing and coordinating congressional budget justification submissions, and monitoring IT portfolio expenditures.

Duties include:

• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to government leads, conduct financial and data analytics, and support senior leadership deliberations on investment/divestment and unfunded requirements decisions by providing data-driven decision support.
• Apply Federal planning, programming, budgeting, and execution policies and procedures and indepth financial data analysis for CIO-T and IT portfolio investments.
• Provide detailed analysis and decision support to IT governance boards including spend plan analysis, execution data analysis, unfunded requirements analysis, and invest/divest analysis; document findings in reports and briefings.
• Research and work with government leads to identify and coordinate solutions to funding gaps.
• Act as trusted financial advisor to CIO-T and IT portfolio management leadership.
• Conduct financial and cost benefit analysis for strategic business cases which influence investment/divestment decisions for CIO-T
• Review and analyze IC, DoD, and NGA planning and programming guidance; provide inputs and coordinate with internal and external organizations; track actions to completion
• Validate and provide alternatives to program build investment and divestment requests; ensure consistency of investment requests with strategic direction and previous budget requests.
• Analyze prior program build efforts; identify lessons learned and craft recommendations to improve future activities.
• Coordinate and collaborate across organizations to obtain data and inputs required for external financial reporting and internal analysis in a manner that builds positive rapport and networks across organizational boundaries.
• Support the coordination and development of CIO-T’s IPBS, CBJB, and budget rollout submissions.
• Reconcile oversight adjustments such as congressional earmarks, DDDs, and OMB Passback, and other congressionally direction actions.
• Identify and correct anomalies in budget narratives; prepare budget justifications for notable changes.
• Compare and contrast congressional responses to budget narratives; identify inconsistences and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Work as a part of an integrated IT portfolio management team to include direct interfacing with program offices and senior NGA leadership.
• Employ exemplary written communication skills for report and document reviewing/editing.
• Assist in the development of management and senior-level briefings and present briefings when necessary.
• Identify resource-driven decisions points and agenda items for IT governance boards, draft Memorandum for Record (MFRs) documenting financial decisions, publish IT governance board minutes, and track actions to completion.
• Make effective use of NGA provided computational methods, tools, and data sets
• Apply analytical skills employing spreadsheet/database proficiency.

Skills/SME: Required

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Accounting, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics, Operations Research, Statistics, Computer Science, or degree that provided a minimum of 24 semester hours in one or more of the fields identified above and required the development or adaptation of applications, systems, or networks. -OR- Combination of Education and Experience: A minimum of 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of coursework in any area listed above, plus experience in accounting, cost estimation, project management, requirements definition, or a related area that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work. As a rule, every 30 semester (45 quarter) hours of coursework is equivalent to one year of experience. -OR- A minimum of 4 years of experience in accounting, finance, cost estimation, project management, requirements definition, or a related are that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work.
• Proficiency with relational database structure (especially financial) and the Microsoft Office Suite, with expertise in the functions and application of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to include advanced functions.
• Recent (within 3 years) experience conducting analysis from complex and diverse sources; explaining or identifying issue impacts and alternatives; applying analytical techniques including cost-benefit analysis, problem identification and recommended resolution, business case evaluation; analyzing large acquisition programs and the DoD life-cycle management processes.
• Recent (within 3 years) experience in IT portfolio management, including IT portfolio management implementation, application and investment analysis.
• Experience in program/project programming, planning, budgeting, and execution efforts to include leveraging program/project management best practices, policy, resource defense, report and document reviewing/editing, systems engineering and acquisition principles and practices, strategic planning, scheduling and project management.
• Experience in PPBE cycles and key documents such as the Program Objective Memorandum (POM), Public Sector Budget (PSB), and Congressional Budget Justification book (CBJB).
• Recent experience (last 2 years) in Federal planning, programming and budgeting, financial data analysis.

Desired

• Understanding of the NGA vision, mission, strategy, and architecture Familiarity with NGA’s 40+ IT Programs
• Understanding of NGA’s organization structure, and knowledge of the National System for Geospatial Intelligence (NSG), NSG partners, Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (IC) intelligence oversight organizations, missions, and organizational priorities.
• Graduate degree in management or a technical discipline.
• Recent experience (within 3 years) working at NGA within a Key Component (KC) in one or more IT, IT support, and/or Financial Management functions