Senior Financial System Implementation Readiness Consultant

Guidehouse Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Prescription Coverage

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Sick Time & Holidays

Discretionary Bonus

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Health Savings Account

Disability Insurance

Student Loan PayDown

Tuition Reimbursement

Learning Opportunities

Employee Referral Program

Corporate Sponsored Events

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a finance and accounting consultant to support a Homeland Security program. The role involves assessing financial implementations for audit readiness, documenting workflows, and advancing modernization across project lifecycles.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree, at least five years in finance/accounting, and the ability to obtain/maintain a Public Trust clearance. Travel up to 10% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Five years of experience in finance, accounting, or related financial field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD public trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Assess financial implementations against audit readiness criteria, including system architecture, business process design, customizations, data quality, interfaces, cutover readiness, and reporting.
• Review to-be process documentation and risk control matrices to identify nonstandard or outdated processes and recommend standardized solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize workflows to strengthen automation, improve efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and enhance audit readiness.
• Analyze and assess financial system modernization impacts throughout the lifecycle of the program.
• Analyze and review legacy and migrated financial, accounting, and reporting data.
• Collaborate with clients, project team members, and stakeholders to support data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution.
• Support ongoing migration activities by adapting analyses and deliverables as requirements and priorities evolve.

Job description

Job Family : Finance & Accounting Consulting

Travel Required : Up to 10%

Clearance Required : Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do:

Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations. The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients' senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.

This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations.

• Assessing financial implementations against audit readiness criteria, including system architecture, business process design, customizations, data quality, interfaces, cutover readiness, and reporting
• Reviewing to‑be process documentation and risk control matrices to identify nonstandard or outdated processes and recommend standardized solutions
• Identifying opportunities to modernize workflows to strengthen automation, improve efficiency, strengthen internal controls, and enhance audit readiness
• Analyzing and assessing financial system modernization impacts throughout the lifecycle of the program
• Analyzing and reviewing legacy and migrated financial, accounting, and reporting data
• Collaborating with clients, project team members, and stakeholders to support data validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution
• Supporting ongoing migration activities by adapting analyses and deliverables as requirements and priorities evolve

What You Will Need:

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred

Bachelor's Degree

FIVE (5) years of experience in finance, accounting, financial management, audit, or another related financial field

What Would Be Nice To Have:

Understanding in accounting, audit or audit-support environment

Experience working in DHS

Active DHS clearance

Experience in financial data analysis and reconciliations

Familiarity with working with large datasets and source systems

Federal financial awareness

Clear written and verbal communication skills to document decisions, issues, and report outcomes

Strong abilities in tracking action items, closing the loop, and following through without repeated prompting

Ability to support stakeholders in a fast-moving, multi-vendor/stakeholder environment

What We Offer :

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Student Loan PayDown
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
• Skills Development & Certifications
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
• Mobility Stipend

About Guidehouse

Guidehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer-Protected Veterans, Individuals with Disabilities or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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