Strategic DoD Financial Analyst | Funding & Power BI

Ignite Digital Federal Services; Charleston (SC); On-site; USD 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay and benefits

PTO

Education stipends

Referral bonuses

Work with U.S. federal government

Volunteer and community engagement

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Ignite Digital Services is seeking a Financial Analyst to support IPT Leadership, the Finance team, and Team Leads. You will manage financial processes, coordinate funding actions, and ensure timely reporting across the IPT while building and maintaining project cost estimates and spend plans.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with dashboards and Power BI, and the ability to coordinate with multiple teams.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting financial management, budget formulation, or funds acceptance processes.
• Familiarity with NERP or comparable financial/enterprise management systems.
• Ability to create, manage, and update project cost estimates and spend plans.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and projections.
• Experience developing or maintaining dashboards, reports, or data visualizations.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to track and manage multiple concurrent funding actions and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Update financial dashboards on a weekly basis.
• Provide support to IPT BFMs.
• Coordinate with the BFM team for all funds acceptance, both reimbursable and direct cite, including creating project structures and NWAs in NERP for new funds received.
• Populate and route FDAs for IPT and 1.0 review and signature.
• Create project cost estimates, communicate scheduled funding request plans with sponsors, complete funds acceptance with the IPT BFM, and create/maintain spend plans for the IPT alongside team leadership.
• Ensure all funding received has an associated spend plan using the latest template, and work with team leads to capture regular forecast updates.
• Ensure spend plan data is aggregated and ingested into the PowerBI data model for crossproject views of labor allocation and planned versus actual expenditure.
• Support command data calls with information on obligation authority, projected monthly expenditures, and carryover projections.
• Support service PR actions by providing NWA and funding document information needed to award contract modifications.

Skills

Budget formulation

Data visualization

Cross-team coordination

Financial analysis

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

Tools

Power BI

NERP

FDA routing

Job description

Ignite Digital Services is seeking a Financial Analyst to support IPT Leadership, the Finance team, and Team Leads. You will manage financial processes, coordinate funding actions, and ensure timely reporting across the IPT while building and maintaining project cost estimates and spend plans.

The role requires strong analytical skills, experience with dashboards and Power BI, and the ability to coordinate with multiple teams.