Sr. Financial Analyst - 483376

TeleSolv Consulting; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Sick leave

Paid federal holidays

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

A federal services consulting firm in California is seeking a Sr. Budget Analyst to provide financial management support for federal law enforcement. The candidate will analyze and monitor accounting functions while applying GAAP. Responsibilities include reporting, maintaining records, and ensuring compliance with federal agency procedures. Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting, an active secret clearance, and at least four years of related experience. The role offers excellent compensation and benefits including training and PTO.

Qualifications

• Minimum BS/BA degree with at least 24 hours of coursework in finance, quantitative methods, or accounting.
• An active secret clearance or the ability to acquire one.
• At least four years of active experience in federal financial policy and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support financial management and senior staff by tracking and monitoring accounting functions.
• Perform record keeping, reporting, and informational duties.
• Gather and develop resource materials for law enforcement programs.

Skills

Financial management support

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office

Analytical skills

Excellent presentation skills

Communication skills

Education

BS/BA degree with coursework in finance or accounting

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Access

FFMS

Job description

Description

TeleSolv Consulting has multiple openings for a Sr. Budget Analyst to support a federal law enforcement agency in San Francisco, CA. The qualified candidate shall provide financial management support to regional and headquarters offices within a Federal program, assisting in the analysis, tracking, and monitoring of accounting activities through an approved Federal financial management system. Duties include performing a range of budgetary, analytical, technical, and administrative functions in support of key organizational operations. The individual must demonstrate proficiency in applying generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and communicating financial and budgetary information effectively across multiple levels of management.

Department: Federal Services

Location: San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

• Support Region 9 and West Zone federal government agency's financial management and senior level staff by analyzing, tracking and monitoring accounting functions in the Federal Financial Management System (FFMS). Tasks include budgetary, analytical, technical, and administrative functions for substantive organizational programs and support activities. Apply GAAP to diverse tasks and communicate accounting and budget information to all levels of staff.
• Perform record keeping, reporting, and informational duties in support of the government programs. Compile, maintain and update data, lists, and reports. Check and verify data by direct comparison with source documents, point out discrepancies, and verify textual material.
• Gather, acquire, and develop resource materials and other information to support law enforcement, security, compliance, and inspection programs.
• Update manuals on policies, directives, and memoranda. Maintain bulletin board(s), selecting and filing new and/or removing deleted material for future reference. Record, sort, assemble, and file information on specific projects, facilities, contracts, financial documentation, current projects, or studies.
• Monitor, coordinate and maintain a variety of records. Extract information, enter information into databases, analyze data to determine trends or patterns, and generate management reports for decision making.
• Assist users in the organization with software, hardware, and automation problems. Perform office automation work, using computer software to produce, store, and retrieve documents, including spreadsheets, databases, and graphics.
• Sort, arrange, and maintain records in file cabinets or electronically in accordance with an approved records management file plan, numbering systems or alphabetical order. Assemble records to ensure that material on specific transactions or subjects are kept together.
• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in Microsoft Windows office programs (Excel, Word, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint), Adobe, and quickly learn various federal government agency programs and applications.
• Perform basic analysis of security data and prepare multiple sensitive security documents for management review. Analyze accounting data, reconcile accounts, and draft documentation to justify reprogramming actions; submit reclassification requests for approval and implementation in the financial system.
• Review invoices, verify information (including 139s), and ensure sufficient funds have been obligated for payment of invoices on multi-million-dollar contracts. Facilitate the approval process of all invoices in accordance with federal agency procedures within specified timelines, create FFMS Receiving tickets after COR approval, and assist CORS with invoice correction or rejection documentation for uploading into Webview or other systems.
• Create and maintain the FM151 vendor payment reconciliation report spreadsheet, ensuring accurate reconciliation and closing throughout the contract obligation. Conduct research and submit expense reclassifications to correct discrepancies.
• Assist with initiating, estimating, collecting, processing orders, monitoring, reconciling, and closing Security Work Authorizations (SWAs) in accordance with agency procedures. Verify and process accounts receivable and reimbursable agreement transactions, review data entry for accuracy, and perform adjustments as needed.
• Analyze the region's revenue and expenditures across various funding sources, including guard services and contracts. Conduct Monthly Billing Analysis, Monthly SWA Analysis, Spend Plan reviews, 1/12th billing analysis, and monitor Undelivered and Unliquidated Orders. Support compilation, preparation, and maintenance of reports summarizing accounting data.
• Proficient in FFMS; create G514 commitments, and review obligations, changes, and generate analysis reports (e.g., CM040, FM151, PM020, FM140, FM085) in compliance with agency procedures. Ensure all G514s and supporting documentation are submitted to Consolidated Contract Team within deadlines.
• Assist with contract and obligation closeout per agency procedures.
• Assist CORs and regional budget team in the creation/preparation/submission of required documentation for specific contractual services and security projects per agency guidelines.
• Assist federal government agency's management with monthly, quarterly, and annual financial submission, execution, reconciliation, and close-out of yearly appropriations.
• Prepare package development of unfunded security countermeasure requirements for submission to the federal government agency's national Acquisition Review Board.
• Process official travel documents in Concur and support budgeting staff with funding documentation and tracking travel requirements.
• Maintain current Exhibit 1 (post spreadsheet) for guard contracts, modifying frequently to reflect authorized service requests per agency.
• Perform budget administrative duties as needed by Resource Management Branch and Security Operations Branch in support of PSO requirements.
• Draft special research requests for review and draft conventional and precedent statistical products.
• Retrieve financial system data and use standard statistical methods to assist in data analysis.
• Provide assistance to special projects identified by Region 9 and West Zone financial and senior management.
• Prepare technical presentations, perform basic analysis of security and financial information, and process critical program data in proprietary databases. Create, monitor, and maintain Excel spreadsheets used in analysis of financial and budgetary information pertaining to contracts and contractor payments. Use systems such as FFMS, Webview, and Revenue Management System.
• Assist in package development of unfunded security countermeasure requirements for submission to the national Acquisition Review Board.
• Analyze estimates for consolidation of funding requests; verify cost estimates by evaluating consistency of dollar amounts against PSO contract exhibits.
• Review and analyze financial and budgetary expenditures matters.
• Draft, copy, edit, calculate, revise, retrieve, store, and print a wide range of documents.
• Follow direction from federal employees to resolve agency client account discrepancies and administratively support accurate invoice processing.
• Record and monitor activities related to the expenditure and disbursement of funds, track and analyze status of funds.
• Communicate verbally and in writing with various levels of management to assist management with daily operations.
• Verify funding status of prior year SWAs, collect financial information required for audit responses, assist in validating accounts, and respond to agency requests for documentation to support invoiced amounts.

Qualifications

• Minimum BS/BA degree with at least 24 hours of coursework in finance, quantitative methods, or accounting.
• An active secret clearance, or the ability to acquire one.
• At least four (4) years of active experience in federal financial policy, procedures, regulations, and guidelines applicable to financial management programs, processes, and systems.
• Advanced knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Word, Access, intermediate Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to prepare and present to groups and executives.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to conduct online research.
• Resourcefulness, initiative, and skill to function in a fast‑paced environment.
• Attention to detail in goal/task accomplishment with minimal supervision.
• Professionalism and ability to interact effectively with others.
• Ability to meet planned and unscheduled deadlines in a timely manner.
• Undergo background suitability clearance (HSPD‑12) and maintain suitability clearance.
• Work independently under adequate supervision provided by the contractor.
• Dress in casual business attire and act professionally at all times.

About TeleSolv

Join the TeleSolv Team on our mission to provide quality and unparalleled service to our clients. We are a growing organization that offers a variety of professional and administrative services to public and private organizations with global operations. Rated in the top 1000 businesses in 2019 by Inc.com. Since its founding in 2000, TeleSolv has been committed to helping organizations solve complex problems. Our solutions integrate sound management principles with the most appropriate technologies to assist senior executives in effectively managing programmatic, schedule, and technical risks. TeleSolv offers excellent compensation, training, advancement opportunities, and exceptional benefits including PTO, sick leave, up to 11 paid federal holidays, medical, dental, vision, company‑paid life, short‑term and long‑term disability insurance, employee assistance program, and matching 401(k) plan.

Background Investigation

This position requires a background investigation. The government will perform a criminal, credit, tax, employment, and drug history background check. The government is looking to confirm that you are generally in good financial standing, up to date on tax filings, rehired eligible with prior employers, and have adhered to federal restrictions on illegal drug use.