Lifecycle Acquisition Financial Analyst

Apogee Engineering, LLC; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Apogee Engineering, LLC seeks a Lifecycle Acquisition Financial Analyst - Subject Matter Expert to provide strategic financial acumen for NGA's Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Program Office in St. Louis, MO.

The role focuses on long-term financial and acquisition planning, interfacing with senior agency executives, and guiding cross-functional dependencies. This on-site position supports program finance, budget execution, and the development of POM submissions and cost estimates, with a strong

Qualifications

• Citizenship: US
• Clearance: TS-SCI, Counter-Intelligence Polygraph (within last 5 years or within 90 days of hire)
• Education: Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or engineering-related field
• Extensive experience in IT program/project management and NGA/DoD budgeting and financial processes (12+ years)

Responsibilities

• Provide advice to assist the government in planning, managing, and executing programs and projects
• Evaluate performance, execution risks, and make comprehensive recommendations to the Government
• Support NGA/PM programs in all program finance related issues, including briefings for management
• Generate independent program office cost estimates and program level cost models
• Monitor NGA/PM financial execution data and advise on improvement opportunities
• Lead NGA/PM Financial Review Boards and Budget Management Review Boards

Skills

Program/Project Management

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or engineering-related field

Job description

Overview

Apogee is seeking a Lifecycle Acquisition Financial Analyst - Subject Matter Expert to provide support for the Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy Program Executive Office at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in St. Louis, MO. This position provides overarching strategic acquisition and program management support for a complex portfolio of programs. The role involves leading long-term financial and acquisition planning, interfacing with senior agency executives, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring that all procurement actions align with the agency's strategic, financial, and architectural objectives.

This is a full-time position located on-site at a government facility in St. Louis, MO.

****Contingent Upon Contract Award****

Responsibilities

• • Provide advice to assist the government in planning, managing, and executing programs and projects
  • Evaluate performance, execution risks, and make comprehensive recommendations to the Government
  • Support the government in successful execution throughout the entire lifecycle of designated efforts from concept to deactivation & disposal
  • Create program documents, plans, and other related artifacts as well as review, evaluate, and assess existing requirements, documents, plans, and other related artifacts for accuracy, consistency, and compliance
  • Facilitate meetings and perform secretariat duties
  • Support program management, business management, and budget execution reviews and provide feedback to the Government
  • Support NGA/PM programs in all program finance related issues to include assessing, coordinating, scheduling, and executing briefings for management
  • Provide analysis (to include "what ifs") and coordination of program level and division-level financial management plans (to include POM inputs) and reports, to include Fiscal Year spend plans, variance analysis, and corrective action plans
  • Assist NGA/PM government representatives in generating the annual NGA/PM spend plan and POM that articulates short, mid, and long-term goals for the NGA/PM as well as deliverables
  • Assist with assessing realism of contractor cost estimates submitted in response to Government Requests for Change (RFC) or impact assessment requests
  • Generate independent program office cost estimates for future requirements in support of program activities, new requirements, and acquisition processes
  • Generate program level cost models and documentation and improve estimating methods and techniques through the collection, normalization and analysis of cost and technical data
  • Assist with the production of documentation to support new acquisitions and follow on contracts
  • Assist with collaboration and integration both within the PEO and between the PEO and its partners/customers including but not limited to other program offices, the sensor office, the infrastructure team, the SAM office, financial management offices, contracting officers, and Source
  • Prepare and submit detailed minutes, notes regarding TEMs, reviews and milestone events
  • Conduct briefings, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), and events
  • Assist the program office with preparation and coordination of delivery orders, task orders, requirements documents, briefings, and performance statements, as applicable
  • Participate in major program milestones and use expertise to identify and raise programmatic issues as well as solutions for those issues
  • Evaluate programmatic impacts of architectural direction and guidance, and recommended paths forward
  • Assist with drafting and presenting PEO and project presentations to external organizations and customers
  • Monitor the status of designated Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy operational systems and support the resolution of operational issues and track test events and related software deliveries
  • Provide program management advice and recommendations for alternative courses of action and strategies to effectively deliver Mapping, Charting, & Geodesy capabilities
  • Maintain the PEO roadmap following NGA prescribed policies
  • Input, Monitor, and Manage PM's financial activities in PRISM, GEO-F, Orbit, and other NGA financial systems
  • Track NGA/PM financial execution data and provide recommendations for improvement
  • Support NGA/PM tasker processes
  • Analyze dormant commitments and Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs). Ensure compliance with audit mandates by researching discrepancies, recommending de-obligations, and maintaining accurate Key Supporting Documents (KSDs) for audit readiness
  • Lead NGA/PM Financial Review Boards and Budget Management Review Boards
  • Represent NGA/PM at financial related forums external to NGA/PM
  • Develop and review complex financial related briefings
  • Support development and routing of acquisition funding documents
  • Maintain official NGA/PM records sets and create business office artifacts using MS Excel

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

Citizenship: US

Clearance: TS-SCI, Counter-Intelligence Polygraph (within last 5 years or within 90 days of hire)

Certificaetions: Certified as a Program/Project Management Professional or DAWIA certification in PM (Advanced) or E&TM (Practitioner) or certified Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA)

Experience/Education: Bachelor's Degree in business, finance, accounting, computer science, or engineering-related field

• Industry leader with exceptional expertise relevant to field, compliant with GSA standards
• Demonstrated senior level (12 or more years) experience in IT program/project management
• Demonstrated expert level (18 or more years) experience with NGA, DoD, or other IC Agencies budgeting and financial processes and tools especially in creating and updating spend plans and Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submissions
• Demonstrated expert level (18 or more years) experience generating Military Intelligence Program (MIP) and National Intelligence (NIP) base and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) Program Objective Memorandum (POM) submissions, funding requests, and justifications at the budget program level or above to Congress and DoD or ODNI oversight authorities
• Demonstrated senior level (12 or more years) experience with acquisition documentation and principals: contracting documents, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, contracting and acquisition processes, Performance Work Statements (PWSs), and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated expert level (18 or more years) experience with the IC or DoD budgeting and execution lifecycle, such as fiscal year management and appropriations. This includes the application of Federal Appropriation Law and DoD Financial Management Regulations (FMR), expert-level knowledge in the proper application of the "Color of Money" (e.g., O&M, RDT&E, Procurement), and the ability to evaluate the Purpose, Time, and Amount of expenditures to ensure fiscal compliance and prevent Anti-Deficiency Act (ADA) violations

Preferred Requirements

Certifications:

• Certified as a Program/Project Management Professional or DAWIA certification in PM, Business FM, Business CE, or E&TM
• Any one or combination of the following: Certified Defense Financial Planner; DoD Financial Management Certification; Certified Government Financial Manager

Education: Masters+

Years of Experience:

• Demonstrated expert level (18 or more years) experience with NGA systems architecture components & processes
• Demonstrated expert level (18 or more years) experience with NGA, DoD, or other IC Agencies acquisition processes and procedures especially creating RFP documentation such as SOW, SOO, PWS, and IGCEs and performing technical evaluations of proposals

Additional InformationLocation:St. Louis, MOOn-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-siteTravel:10%