Financial Analyst

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work opportunities

Job summary

PCI Government Services LLC is hiring a Financial Analyst to support NIST CHIPS-related financial administration. The role involves reviewing and analyzing financial reports, validating assumptions, and ensuring accurate project economics.

Responsibilities include day-to-day operations, data entry, and cross-department support. The ideal candidate has aFinance/Business background with 4–7 years of analyst experience, excellent communication, and advanced Excel abilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Business.
• 4–7 years of Financial Analyst or Business Analyst experience.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills and accounting expertise.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with Office suite (Word, Excel, Teams).
• Advanced Excel skills including formulas using If, Index, Match; Pivot tables.

Responsibilities

• Perform initial completion scans of applications reviewing operational and financial data.
• Analyze financial reports to ensure thorough submissions.
• Confirm if assumptions are reasonable and evaluate financial aspects of incentive requests.
• Provide a detailed understanding of project economics for stakeholders.
• Assist in day-to-day operational tasks and data entry.
• Maintain documentation of processes and protocol interactions.

Skills

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Oral and written communication

Problem solving

Data entry and record-keeping

Office suite (Word, Excel, Teams)

Advanced Excel (If, Index, Match)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Business

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Teams

Job description

PCI Government Services LLC has a passion for our team members and their personal mission for success. We offer excellent insurance, leave, and developmental benefits along with some flexibility for remote work opportunities. Come join our organization and be part of an exciting team supporting our Federal customers!

PCI Government Services is looking to hire a Financial Analyst to provide operational services pertaining to the administration of financial support agreements for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). These agreements pertain to the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, which aims to strengthen and revitalize the U.S. position in semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing.

NIST's roles under the CHIPS Act are as financial stewards of the CHIPS Incentives Program and as scientific leaders for the CHIPS R&D Program. In executing these programs, the CHIPS program is required to meet aggressive deadlines to issue funding announcements, set application deadlines, and issue decisions on awards, with varying timelines associated with various programs. NIST requires an integrated approach for program administration across the grants and projects lifecycle, including consistent processes, program management, and on-going support.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform initial completion scans of company applications reviewing both operational and financial data.
• Analyze company applications financial reports to ensure comprehensive and thorough submissions.
• Confirm if assumptions made by the applicant are reasonable.
• Evaluate the financial aspects of assigned applications and incentive requests.
• Provide a detailed understanding of project economics from the perspectives of all stakeholders.
• Assist in day-to-day operational tasks, ensuring smooth execution of various processes.
• Provide administrative support to various departments, including data entry and record-keeping.
• Assist in maintaining accurate documentation of operational processes and procedures, and protocol interactions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Business.
• Four - Seven years of Financial Analyst or Business Analyst experience.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and accounting expertise
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills .
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong customer service and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with Office suite (Word, Excel, Teams).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including formulas using If, Index, Match, Lookups. Pivot table experience.
• Proven ability to solve problems creatively.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described herein are representative of those which may need to be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Employees must possess the ability to work in an office environment.

If required, employees must be able to operate a motor vehicle which may require sitting for prolonged periods of time to visit other company sites. Must have hearing and speech to communicate in person, before groups, and over the telephone. Standing in work areas and walking between work areas may be required. This position may require an employee to bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb or balance, reach, push, and pull. The employee may also be required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

PCI Federal (PCIF) and its subsidiaries are an equal-opportunity employer. PCIF does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, national origin, religion, marital status, sexual orientation or identity, Veterans or Disability status.

Preference may be extended to qualified Native American Indian candidates in accordance with applicable federal law.