Junior Financial Specialist

Finance Specialist

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with three years of demonstrated experience in DoD Financial Management supporting federal government acquisition, preferably in space acquisition and Commitment, Obligation, Expenditure reconciliation activities.

Responsibilities

• Establish obligation and expenditure plans for active year appropriations, monitor execution throughout the fiscal year, and provide analysis at the requirement, office, sub-project, project or appropriation level, as required.
• Demonstrate knowledge of acquisition management regulations, practices, policies, and procedures including major system acquisition lifecycle resource planning practices and procedures, and Acquisition Program Baseline development and PMPs.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of budget execution documents, develop and maintain financial records, interact with other government agencies, prepare financial documents, support financial audits, track and forecast spending and budget reporting.
• Maintain accurate record of all financial and programmatic changes across execution years and future years' defense program (FYDP).
• Perform Unliquidated Obligations (ULO) management, contract reconciliation, and closeout functions.
• Develop, train, brief, integrate, correlate, and analyze various phases of planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution (PPBE) within the DoD portfolio.
• Analyze data from various USG accounting systems and Program Contractor inputs to support training; data collection; documentation; reconciliation of current, prior, and cancelling year budgets; and budget execution.
• Assist the USG with all financial reviews to ensure unliquidated obligations (ULOs) are properly recorded and support all USAF, USSF and SSC expiring funds taskers, are in the proper stage of accounting, are valid and correct, are not dormant, and documentation exists to support the recording of the ULOs and Commitments in according with DoD FMRs.
• Compare USG program office C / O / E records with USG accounting records to identify and record discrepancies found; identify the cause of the discrepancies and recommend corrective actions to various organizations needed to update the information contained in databases used to monitor funds.

Skills Required