Federal Financial Management & Budget Analyst

AE Strategies LLC; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid healthcare

401(k) matching

Competitive compensation

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

AE Strategies LLC is seeking a Financial Management Analyst to support a federal comptroller office. You will handle budget formulation, funds distribution and execution, reconciliation, forecasting, and automated reporting while aligning with congressional controls and audit readiness requirements.

The role focuses on developing budget templates, dashboards, and standard financial processes, with strong emphasis on data quality and cross-team collaboration within a distributed government

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to government contracts AE Strategies supports.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, public policy, or a related field.
• At least two years of relevant experience in financial management, budget formulation and execution, funds management, reconciliation, forecasting, financial reporting, audit readiness, internal controls, or business process improvement.
• Ability to qualify for a DoD Secret Clearance.
• Willingness to work on-site 5 days a week.
• Experience developing budget templates, reporting models, dashboards, forecasting tools, execution summaries, SOPs, user guides, training materials, or audit-ready documentation.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with DoD financial systems is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to the Comptroller and distributed Comptroller Office team across budget formulation, funds distribution, funds execution, reconciliation, forecasting, reporting, and Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness activities.
• Develop templates, budget submission models, business tools, and standard approaches that improve consistency, transparency, auditability, and usability of financial management products.
• Reconcile budget requirements with congressional controls; track funds, assign cost structures, validate funding availability, and support corrective actions for accounting discrepancies and audit findings.
• Maintain automated reporting processes for labor and support activities, update dashboards and forecasting tools, and produce execution summaries for senior leadership.
• Use accounting and financial systems to support data quality, troubleshoot system issues, prevent errors, and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to maintain compliance and audit readiness.
• Develop SOPs, user guides, training materials, onboarding documentation, process documentation, and audit-ready support materials to preserve institutional knowledge and standardize execution.
• Coordinate data aggregation across distributed teams and provide rapid, accurate responses to internal and external requests for information, including audit, compliance, and financial data calls.
• Support continuous improvement efforts that define, standardize, and evaluate job duties, workload balance, system access, skills needs, stakeholder education, internal controls, and best practices.

Skills

Strong client-service orientation

Attention to detail

Strong judgment

Coordinate across distributed teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, public policy, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

DoD financial systems

Job description

AE Strategies LLC is seeking a Financial Management Analyst to support a federal comptroller office. You will handle budget formulation, funds distribution and execution, reconciliation, forecasting, and automated reporting while aligning with congressional controls and audit readiness requirements.

The role focuses on developing budget templates, dashboards, and standard financial processes, with strong emphasis on data quality and cross-team collaboration within a distributed government