Financial Analyst

Heartland Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Onsite work in DC

Job summary

Heartland Consulting seeks a Financial Analyst to support monthly billing, cost allocation, and customer reporting for a DHS financial shared-services office. This role reports to the Customer Service Program Team Lead and will be named in the proposal.

The position requires a Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance and 3+ years in federal government accounting, with 6+ years in cost modeling preferred; advanced Excel and Power BI are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, information management, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• At least three years of federal government accounting or federal financial management experience; six+ years in cost modeling or shared-services operations preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in activity-based costing or cost-model development.
• Advanced Excel with lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation; Power BI preferred; SQL a plus.
• Ability to explain a cost result to a non-accountant and document produced assumptions.
• U.S. citizenship, fluent English, and residence in the United States; DHS suitability determination required.
• Onsite, full-time work at Potomac Center South, 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC.

Responsibilities

• Gather inputs and calculate monthly activity and process costs for federal components and internal customers.
• Prepare monthly activity reports stating methods, assumptions, and data sources.
• Support quarterly cost-per-vendor-invoice calculations and pre-due-date customer packages.
• Assist with annual SLA updates and funding reassessment.
• Confirm workload drivers and enterprise costs with process owners during model reviews.
• Draft sections of interagency agreements for government signature.
• Support year-start and fiscal year-end customer reports and action tracking.
• Document SOPs and desk guides for the billing cycle.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

SQL

Cost modeling

Activity-based costing

Communication of cost results

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business administration/info management

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Job description

Heartland Consulting

Salary: $105,000–$115,000 per year

About the role

Heartland Consulting is hiring a Financial Analyst to support monthly customer billing, cost allocation, and customer reporting for a Department of Homeland Security financial shared-services office. This is a core-team position reporting to the Customer Service Program Team Lead. The selected individual will be named in the proposal.

What you will do

• Gather inputs and calculate monthly activity and process costs for several federal customer components and the internal customer.
• Prepare monthly customer activity reports that state the method, assumptions, and data sources.
• Support the quarterly cost-per-vendor-invoice calculation and the customer packages that must be ready ahead of the departmental due date.
• Support the annual service-level agreement update, including comment tracking, and the annual funding reassessment.
• Confirm workload drivers and enterprise-wide costs with process owners during the annual model configuration review.
• Draft sections of interagency agreement packages, including continuing-resolution updates, for government signature.
• Support beginning-of-year and fiscal year-end customer reports, meetings, and action tracking.
• Document standard operating procedures and desk guides for the billing cycle.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business administration, information management, or a related field. A master’s degree is preferred.
• At least three years of experience in federal government accounting or federal financial management. Six or more years of experience in cost modeling or shared-services financial operations is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in activity-based costing or cost-model development.
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation. A visualization tool such as Power BI is preferred. SQL is a plus.
• Ability to explain a cost result to a non-accountant and to document the assumption that produced it.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently. Must currently reside in the United States.
• Ability to obtain a DHS suitability determination before starting work. No security clearance is required.
• Ability to work onsite, full time, at Potomac Center South, 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC.

Healthcare benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, will be described before the first interview.