Financial Analyst

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Heartland Consulting in Washington, DC is seeking a Financial Analyst to support monthly customer billing, cost allocation, and reporting for a DHS shared-services office. The role is onsite, full-time, contingent on contract award.

The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree in a related field, several years in federal government accounting or cost modeling, and strong Excel skills; experience with Power BI and SQL is a plus. U.S. citizenship required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, information management, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in federal government accounting or federal financial management; 6+ years in cost modeling or shared-services financial operations preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in activity-based costing or cost-model development.
• Advanced Excel proficiency including lookups, pivot tables, and reconciliation; Power BI preferred; SQL a plus.
• Ability to explain a cost result to a non-accountant and document the producing assumptions.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to read, write, speak, and understand English fluently. Must reside in the United States.
• Ability to obtain a DHS suitability determination before starting work; security clearance not 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 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.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Activity-based costing

Cost modeling

Cost analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance/related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Financial Analyst, Federal Shared-Services Costing

Heartland Consulting Washington, DC · Onsite · Full-time Contingent on contract awardSalary: $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.

Minimum qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

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