Financial & Budget Management Analyst - Senior with Security Clearance

RTI Consulting, LLC; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

RTI Consulting, LLC is seeking a senior analyst to lead key financial management activities for government programs in Springfield, VA and St. Louis, MO. The role requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance (or willing polygraph).

You will analyze budgets, justify allocations, and defend program health with external stakeholders. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, a business/finance degree, and strong MS Excel/PowerPoint skills to create complex analyses and briefs for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a business-related field or financial management is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal program budget analysis, planning events, and detailed documentation packages.
• Justify and defend programs and budgets to oversight bodies.
• Prepare budget testimony, briefing materials, and responses to inquiries from ODNI, OSD, OMB, and Congress.
• Conduct complex financial data analysis, identifying multi-year trends and generating detailed reports.
• Support fiscal execution spend plans and strategies for funding shortfalls.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budget analysis

Communication

Excel advanced

Pivot Tables

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/finance

Master's degree (desirable)

CDFM certification (desirable)

Tools

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Pivot Tables

Job description

Location: Springfield, VA & St. Louis, MO Clearance Required: US Citizenship and an active TS/SCI or TS/SCI w/polygraph. If polygraph is not held, candidates must be willing to take a polygraph. Position Description: As a senior analyst, this individual leads key financial management activities for a program or group of programs. The role requires providing in-depth analysis of budgets, justifying resource allocations to external stakeholders, and defending program financial health. They serve as a key financial expert to the government Program Manager. Work at this level involves a wide range of complex assignments and non-routine situations that require extensive knowledge in the specialty discipline. Duties may include:

• Leading internal program build activities, including budget analysis, planning events, and the creation of detailed documentation packages.
• Leading the effort to justify and defend programs and budgets to oversight bodies.
• Supporting the development and preparation of budget testimony, briefing materials, and formal responses to inquiries from ODNI, OSD, OMB, and Congress.
• Conducting complex financial data analysis, identifying multi-year trends, and generating detailed reports using automated tools and databases.
• Providing expert support and recommendations to Program Managers in the development and implementation of fiscal execution spend plans, including strategies for handling funding shortfalls.
• A minimum of 8 years of demonstrated experience providing financial support.
• A Bachelor's degree in a business-related field or financial management.
• Demonstrated proficiency using MS Excel to include creating and utilizing advanced formulas, functions and Pivot Tables to analyze and reconcile budgetary data.
• Proficiency building financial charts and briefings in MS PowerPoint.
• Experience researching, maintaining, and presenting complex budget analysis to all levels of management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for professional correspondence and stakeholder interactions, ability to handle confidential information with the utmost integrity and tact.
• Desired Skills:
• Master's degree in a relevant field.
• Three years of experience with DoW/IC financial processes and software.
• Certified Defense Financial Manager certification (CDFM).
• All employment decisions at RTI are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. RTI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.