Junior Financial Analyst

ADP, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Kundlas Consulting Group LLC seeks a Junior Financial Analyst to support federal financial management, budget execution, accounting support, reconciliation, reporting, and data analysis activities.

The position assists with reviewing financial documentation, processing transactions, maintaining financial records, monitoring funds, preparing reports, researching discrepancies, and supporting audit-ready documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, or a related field preferred; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Entry-level to two years of experience supporting financial analysis, accounting, budget execution, financial reporting, grants, procurement, or administrative financial operations.
• Basic understanding of financial transactions, accounting classifications, funding documentation, account reconciliation, invoice tracking, and budget execution.
• Ability to review financial documents for proper classification, authorization, funding citations, accuracy, and supporting documentation.
• Experience entering, validating, maintaining, or reviewing data within financial-management systems or comparable business platforms.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors, discrepancies, missing documentation, and unusual transactions.
• Ability to prepare routine reports, account summaries, status updates, and financial documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
• U.S. citizenship may be required depending on client or contract requirements.
• Ability to pass background checks, suitability requirements, or security clearance requirements, as required by the client or contract.

Responsibilities

• Examine financial documents to verify proper accounting classification, authorization, funding citations, and supporting documentation.
• Enter, process, validate, and maintain financial transactions within applicable financial-management systems.
• Support the use of FBMS or comparable integrated federal financial systems used for accounting, budget execution, acquisition, financial assistance, and enterprise reporting.
• Perform routine account reconciliations and compare financial transactions across source documentation and financial-system reports.
• Assist with reconciliation between general ledger and subsidiary account balances and research differences requiring correction or additional review.
• Monitor commitments, obligations, expenditures, disbursements, available balances, and status of funds.
• Compile and summarize budget estimates, historical spending information, financial transactions, and other quantitative financial data.
• Prepare routine financial-management reports, budget-execution reports, account analyses, and financial-status reports.
• Support monthly, quarterly, year-end, and other recurring financial-reporting requirements.
• Analyze financial and statistical data to identify errors, unusual transactions, discrepancies, missing documentation, and emerging spending trends.
• Research financial transactions and assist with resolving accounting and budgetary discrepancies.

Skills

Quantitative skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Attention to detail

MS Office

Data analysis

Communication

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance/related field

Tools

FBMS or similar

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Kundlas Consulting Group LLC is a professional consulting firm specializing in construction inspection and compliance services for public infrastructure projects. Our core services include on-site inspection of roadway, bridge, and utility construction to ensure adherence to engineering specifications, safety standards, and contract requirements. We support clients with daily reporting, materials testing coordination, schedule tracking, and quality assurance oversight. Additional services include project management, grants management for federally funded infrastructure and disaster recovery programs.

About the Role:

This position is contingent upon the identification of a candidate whose expertise meets our strategic needs, at which point a dedicated, funded opening will be established. We are proactively seeking a standout professional for whom we will finalize a formal role.

Kundlas Consulting Group is seeking a Junior Financial Analyst to support federal financial management, budget execution, accounting support, reconciliation, reporting, and data analysis activities. This position will assist with reviewing financial documentation, processing transactions, maintaining financial records, monitoring funds, preparing reports, researching discrepancies, and supporting audit-ready documentation. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytical, organized, and capable of working with financial data in accordance with federal financial management requirements, internal controls, and established procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, or a related field preferred; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Entry-level to two years of experience supporting financial analysis, accounting, budget execution, financial reporting, grants, procurement, or administrative financial operations.
• Basic understanding of financial transactions, accounting classifications, funding documentation, account reconciliation, invoice tracking, and budget execution.
• Ability to review financial documents for proper classification, authorization, funding citations, accuracy, and supporting documentation.
• Experience entering, validating, maintaining, or reviewing data within financial-management systems or comparable business platforms.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors, discrepancies, missing documentation, and unusual transactions.
• Ability to prepare routine reports, account summaries, status updates, and financial documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
• U.S. citizenship may be required depending on client or contract requirements.
• Ability to pass background checks, suitability requirements, or security clearance requirements, as required by the client or contract.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience supporting federal financial management, accounting, budget execution, acquisition support, grants management, or program financial operations.
• Familiarity with FBMS or comparable integrated federal financial systems used for accounting, budget execution, acquisition, financial assistance, and enterprise reporting.
• Experience monitoring commitments, obligations, expenditures, disbursements, available balances, and status of funds.
• Experience supporting general ledger reconciliations, subsidiary account reviews, trial balances, invoice tracking, journal entries, corrections, and closeout activities.
• Experience preparing financial-management reports, budget-execution reports, account analyses, financial-status reports, and recurring monthly, quarterly, or year-end reporting.
• Familiarity with federal financial documentation standards, internal controls, audit readiness, data integrity, and stewardship of federal funds.
• Experience supporting financial data calls, management reviews, audits, or internal-control assessments.
• Active or previously held security clearance preferred.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, if required.
• Experience supporting Department of the Interior, FEMA, USACE, DHS, or other federal agency financial-management activities is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Examine financial documents to verify proper accounting classification, authorization, funding citations, and supporting documentation.
• Enter, process, validate, and maintain financial transactions within applicable financial-management systems.
• Support the use of FBMS or comparable integrated federal financial systems used for accounting, budget execution, acquisition, financial assistance, and enterprise reporting.
• Perform routine account reconciliations and compare financial transactions across source documentation and financial-system reports.
• Assist with reconciliation between general ledger and subsidiary account balances and research differences requiring correction or additional review.
• Monitor commitments, obligations, expenditures, disbursements, available balances, and status of funds.
• Compile and summarize budget estimates, historical spending information, financial transactions, and other quantitative financial data.
• Prepare routine financial-management reports, budget-execution reports, account analyses, and financial-status reports.
• Support monthly, quarterly, year-end, and other recurring financial-reporting requirements.
• Analyze financial and statistical data to identify errors, unusual transactions, discrepancies, missing documentation, and emerging spending trends.
• Research financial transactions and assist with resolving accounting and budgetary discrepancies.