Senior Financial Analytics & Operations Consultant (Hybrid)

ecsfederal; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Financial Management and Data Analytics Consultant to join our Bethesda, MD (hybrid) office. The role supports a financial management and budgeting application in a federal analytics environment, translating processes into guidance, maintaining documentation, and delivering data-driven insights.

The successful candidate will combine process and systems discipline with strong data analysis, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, working independently

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field.
• 7+ years in federal financial management, financial systems or data analytics.
• Experience developing and maintaining SOPs, process documentation, job aids, or system user guidance.
• Experience supporting operations, implementation, enhancement, or user adoption of a financial, budgeting, grants, or enterprise business application.
• Strong data analysis skills, including validating, reconciling, interpreting, and presenting complex datasets.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and proficiency creating professional reports and presentations in PowerPoint and Word.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear language for business users and leadership.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to satisfy applicable federal suitability, credentialing, and system-access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day activities within the financial management and budgeting application, including workflow monitoring, issue follow-up, user support, and operational continuity.
• Develop a working command of the application, its data, business rules, user roles, interfaces, and dependencies; identify operational risks and recommend improvements.
• Track system activities, open actions, defects, enhancement needs, and decisions through resolution with client and technical stakeholders.
• Support data-quality reviews, reconciliations, exception analysis, and validation of information used for financial reporting and decision-making.
• Develop, document, maintain, and revise SOPs, process maps, desk guides, job aids, and other system documentation.
• Translate complex system functions and financial workflows into clear instructions for end users with varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Assess current-state processes, identify gaps or inconsistencies, and recommend standardized future-state procedures and controls.
• Support user training, demonstrations, knowledge transfer, onboarding, and change communications related to system processes and updates.
• Maintain version control and ensure documentation reflects approved processes, system changes, and current user practices.

Skills

Financial management

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Excel

Communication

Process documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Financial Management and Data Analytics Consultant to join our Bethesda, MD (hybrid) office. The role supports a financial management and budgeting application in a federal analytics environment, translating processes into guidance, maintaining documentation, and delivering data-driven insights.

The successful candidate will combine process and systems discipline with strong data analysis, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, working independently