Senior Financial Management Analyst - USSF SWAC (TS/SCI)

Tecolote Research, Inc.; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Plan

Job summary

Tecolote Research, Inc. invites you to join the Space Warfighting Analysis Center in Colorado Springs as a seasoned Financial Management professional. You will drive USSF planning and programming across multiple funding streams and develop leadership-ready tooling and briefings.

You will work on-site in a TS/SCI environment, leveraging DEAMS and similar systems, with a strong focus on data integrity, forecasting, and executive communication for senior leadership in SWAC and USSF.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of hands-on DoW/DoD or IC FM experience.

Responsibilities

• Execute data collection, validation, and updating of financial execution data across SWAC tools.
• Forecast spending at program, project, and component levels with Excel models.
• Prepare funding documents and transmit to stakeholders across appropriations.
• Draft executive memos, budget reviews, and briefing charts for senior leaders.
• Analyze program spending and monitor major contracts for fiscal decisions.

Skills

DAF/DoD FM experience

IC/FM experience

Obligation planning

Expenditure planning

DEAMS/CCaR/DAI/SAFES

Advanced Excel

Executive briefing

TS/SCI clearance

On-site Colorado

Education

Bachelor's degree

DoD FM Certification (DFMCP) Level II/III

Tools

DEAMS

CCaR

DAI

SAFES

DTS

WAWF

Job description

Tecolote Research has an exciting opportunity for you at the Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC), home of the force design for the U.S. Space Force. We need a seasoned Financial Management (FM) practitioner to drive the USSF planning and programming horizon and facilitate the complex execution of multiple funding streams across both Title 10 and Title 50 domains. This is a destination for a "hands-on analyst" who wants to apply technical system mastery directly to high-consequence national security portfolios. Our primary target is a seasoned DAF FM expert, but we are highly receptive to DoW (DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC) FM professionals with the required hands-on system capabilities and active clearances.

Responsibilities

• System Navigation & Reporting: Execute the direct collection, validation, and recurring update of raw financial execution data across SWAC decision-support tools to maintain absolute data integrity. Run and modify custom database queries and complex Excel/analytical models on demand to track and forecast spending at the program, project, and component levels—translating system outputs into real-time, defensible leadership tools. Customize metrics to support a wide spectrum of options and scenarios.
• Active Portfolio Management: Perform the daily data entry, tracking, and forecasting of classified, multi-source funding streams across complex, multi-year space warfighting initiatives. Build and maintain resource models, while directly developing and running the program office's requirement validation and prioritization processes to translate operational space warfighting requirements into defensible, funded portfolios.
• Document Generation & Transmission: Prepare, coordinate, and transmit complex funding documents (e.g., MIPRs, Interagency Agreements) across multiple appropriations and funding streams. Route and track these packages directly through official enterprise financial systems (such as DEAMS), coordinating with external stakeholders to execute seamless, compliant fund transfers to numerous partner organizations.
• Strategic Advisory & Executive Documentation: Conduct rigorous financial research, analyze policy regulations, and draft senior-level memos, budget execution reviews, and position papers on complex technical topics. Conceptualize, design, and build executive briefing charts and supporting documentation, translating raw system-generated data into clear actionable visual narrative for SWAC, USSF, and DoW senior leadership.
• Program Control & Contract Monitoring: Execute Program Control functions by conducting detailed analyses of program spending, contractor burn rates, and component requirements. Build, update, and maintain custom tracking spreadsheets and reporting tools, utilizing raw financial database queries to monitor major contracts and provide data-driven recommendations for fiscal-oriented decisions.

Skills Required

• Strategic & Tactical FM Experience:
  • Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in Department of War (DoW/DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC) financial management, with a strong preference for direct DAF (Air Force/Space Force) program office or headquarters experience
  • Proven ability to personally build and execute obligation/expenditure plans and fiscal year-end closeouts
  • Strong capability to both identify and resolve financial process and/or framework inefficiencies and issues
• Direct, recent operational experience navigating and executing transactions within DAF/DoW enterprise tools such as DEAMS, CCaR, DAI, SAFES, DTS, and WAWF
• Advanced Excel capabilities (lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas) to manipulate raw database outputs and develop custom toolsets supporting organizational decision points and processes
• Executive Communication & Autonomy:
  • Demonstrated ability to operate as a self-directed analyst who can research complex fiscal policies independently and translate technical data into polished briefing products for senior military leaders
• Security, Clearance & Environment:
  • Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance required on day one
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph
  • Must be willing to work daily, on-site in a Colorado Springs SCIF
• Professional Credentials:
  • Bachelor's degree required
  • DoD FM Certification (DFMCP) Level II or III (or equivalent test-based credentials like CDFM/CGFM) highly preferred

Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000/Year, DOE

Education

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in math, engineering, or the sciences.

Full-Time

SecurityClearance

Senior-Level

On-site

We offer competitive salaries commensurate with education and experience. We have an excellent benefits package that includes:

Health & Welfare

Company Paid

• Major Medical Insurance for employees and family members
• Dental Insurance for employees and family members
• Vision Insurance for employees (employee-paid for family members)
• Group Life Insurance
• Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
• Travel Accident Insurance
• Long-Term Disability

Voluntary

• Short-Term Disability
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (pre-tax deferrals for health care expenses)

Retirement

• Money Purchase Pension Plan - 100% Company funded defined contribution retirement plan. One-year entry waiting period and 5-year vesting. Core Funds available and a self-directed brokerage account option.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan - 100% Company funded discretionary contribution. 100% vested after one-year entry waiting period.

Time Off

Tecolote’s generous paid time off benefits give employees the flexibility they need to relax, recharge and take care of the unexpected.