Finance & Analytics Engagement Manager (Hybrid)

Avanza; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus

Healthcare – Medical, Dental, Vision

401(K) with Employer Contribution

Disability Insurance

Group Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Avanza is seeking an experienced Manager - Financial Management & Analytics to lead federal engagements, ensuring client satisfaction and high-quality delivery. You will translate complex needs into analytical plans, direct multidisciplinary teams, and present defensible recommendations to client leadership.

The role balances hands-on modeling with strategic oversight, mentoring analysts, and managing risk and scope while advancing the firm’s money, data, and technology projects in a dynamic

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in management consulting, financial management, budgeting, financial analysis, analytics, or a related field.
• A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field is required. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Professional credentials such as CGFM, CDFM, CFA, CMA, or another relevant financial-management credential are preferred.
• Strong consulting judgment and structured problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous work from problem definition through analysis, validation, recommendation, and client communication.
• Demonstrated knowledge of federal financial management, including experience in areas such as budget formulation and execution, forecasting, payroll, spend planning, cost analysis, funds control, financial reporting, or financial operations.
• Strong financial and quantitative literacy, including the ability to review and challenge financial models, forecasts, projections, variance analyses, scenario analyses, cost models, and operational analyses.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and comfort working with large or imperfect datasets to validate results, test assumptions, and investigate anomalies. Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau is strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of data analytics concepts and tools such as SQL, Python, statistical forecasting, or data engineering is preferred.
• Strong client-facing communication and facilitation skills, including the presence and judgment to lead meetings, respond to unexpected questions, manage expectations, and communicate with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, challenge technical work constructively, prioritize competing demands, provide candid feedback, and remain accountable for client satisfaction and overall delivery quality.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day engagement delivery and client satisfaction, including performance against scope, schedule, commitments, quality standards, priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Serve as a primary client point of contact. Lead meetings, clarify requests, identify the underlying decision need, and translate it into a structured analytical approach and plan.
• Manage team performance, workload, priorities, and quality across financial analysts, data scientists and BI professionals. Assign work, set expectations, review progress, remove blockers, and integrate outputs.
• Lead analytical quality control by challenging methodologies, data quality, and results. Evaluate alternatives and investigate material anomalies or variances.
• Translate analytical findings into clear conclusions, caveats, recommendations, and decision-relevant insights for budget officials and executives.
• Maintain a holistic view of the engagement; identify next analytical questions, improvement opportunities, risks, or decisions; escalate and resolve delivery issues.
• Mentor, coach, and assess team members; provide feedback and support professional development.
• Remain hands-on to perform or support selected analyses when senior involvement is needed.

Skills

Client engagement

Team leadership

Financial analysis

Data analytics

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Accounting/Business

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

Avanza is seeking an experienced Manager - Financial Management & Analytics to lead federal engagements, ensuring client satisfaction and high-quality delivery. You will translate complex needs into analytical plans, direct multidisciplinary teams, and present defensible recommendations to client leadership.

The role balances hands-on modeling with strategic oversight, mentoring analysts, and managing risk and scope while advancing the firm’s money, data, and technology projects in a dynamic