Remote Federal Financial Analyst: Budgeting & FinOps

N2IA Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

N2IA Technologies is seeking a Financial Analyst to support a federal customer with financial management, cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization. The role spans cross-functional collaboration across financial, acquisition, contractual, and technical data to improve program resource efficiency.

The ideal candidate will help stakeholders understand cost trends, forecast requirements, and identify financial risks while ensuring accurate financial records and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in financial analysis, cost estimating, budgeting, program control, or financial management.
• Experience supporting federal government programs, contracts, acquisitions, or financial-management activities.
• Demonstrated knowledge of general accounting principles and financial management practices.
• Experience developing cost estimates, financial forecasts, budgets, burn-rate analyses, or similar quantitative products.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, financial modeling, data reconciliation, and analytical reporting.
• Ability to analyze financial and technical information and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support federal budgeting, financial planning, execution tracking, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Provide financial analysis, cost control, customer pricing, budgeting, forecasting, and recurring financial reporting.
• Monitor and analyze expenditures, obligations, funding levels, burn rates, and projected financial requirements.
• Monitor cloud account budgets using automated scripts, alerts, and financial-management tools and investigate unexpected expenditures.
• Gather, validate, and maintain financial projections from program customers and stakeholders.
• Develop cost estimates for new requirements, changes to existing requirements, technology investments, and cloud workloads.
• Support development of IGCEs, ROMs, BOEs, cost models, and other analytical products.
• Analyze historical cost data, labor rates, technical requirements, schedules, and other cost drivers to develop defensible estimates.
• Develop burn-rate analyses, spend projections, funding forecasts, and what-if scenarios to support program decisions.
• Track funding levels, contract actions, and maintain accurate financial records and supporting documentation.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders to facilitate timely approvals and resolve financial issues.
• Track and validate vendor and cloud invoices for accuracy and completion.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Cost estimating

Federal programs

Data analysis

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

AWS

Azure

Power Automate

Job description

N2IA Technologies is seeking a Financial Analyst to support a federal customer with financial management, cost estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and cloud cost optimization. The role spans cross-functional collaboration across financial, acquisition, contractual, and technical data to improve program resource efficiency.

The ideal candidate will help stakeholders understand cost trends, forecast requirements, and identify financial risks while ensuring accurate financial records and