Senior Federal Budget & Financial Analyst

Harkcon, Inc.; Fredericksburg (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business supporting federal organizations with budget execution, financial analysis, and program reporting.

The Senior Analyst will monitor funding, conduct reconciliations, and prepare management reports for education and training programs. Location primarily at federal facilities in Norfolk, VA, and Washington, DC with telework limited by government approval.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university. Preferred fields include Business Administration, Finance, Education, Public Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least three years of experience in project support, financial management, analysis, or administrative functions related to education or training programs and/or financial management.
• Experience reconciling financial data and explaining differences among planned, committed, obligated, and expended amounts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to interpret financial policies, transaction records, and supporting documentation and apply consistent quality-control procedures.
• Strong analytical writing, organization, and customer-service skills.
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements and remain eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Track funding, commitments, obligations, expenditures, balances, and variances across programs, projects, organizations, or funding sources.
• Reconcile financial records among source systems, spreadsheets, reports, and supporting documentation; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Support budget formulation and execution activities, spend plans, forecasts, data calls, unfunded-requirement submissions, and year-end closeout.
• Review purchase requests, purchase-card documentation, invoices, travel or training costs, and other transactions for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Develop recurring financial reports, dashboards, trackers, reconciliations, and briefing materials for program managers and senior leaders.
• Analyze spending patterns, burn rates, aging obligations, available balances, and execution risks; identify issues requiring management attention.
• Maintain audit-ready files and support internal reviews, data-quality checks, and responses to financial-management inquiries.
• Document financial procedures, desk guides, workflows, internal controls, and recommended process improvements.
• Coordinate with budget, acquisition, contracting, logistics, training, and program-management personnel.
• Research open obligations and prepare monthly findings and supporting documentation for accounting review.
• Verify purchase-card transactions against financial ledgers and reconcile discrepancies across official financial records.
• Prepare weekly balance reports and recurring statistical and financial reports supporting education and professional-development programs.

Skills

Analytical writing

Organization

Customer service

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

SharePoint

Enterprise financial systems

Purchase-card management

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business supporting federal organizations with budget execution, financial analysis, and program reporting.

The Senior Analyst will monitor funding, conduct reconciliations, and prepare management reports for education and training programs. Location primarily at federal facilities in Norfolk, VA, and Washington, DC with telework limited by government approval.