Assistant To Financial Manager Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

Savantage Solutions is seeking a Financial Manager to join our professional services team, supporting a federal government agency's mission to deliver high-quality budgetary, financial, and civilian pay support that drives smarter mission and decision-making. The department provides financial management support across the agency, with a continued focus on improving the quality, efficiency, and customer focus of its financial services and operations.

The objective of this project is to deliver comprehensive, agency-wide financial and program management support services to help the government agency achieve its strategic objectives. Program objectives include:

Supporting a broad range of resource planning, analysis, and execution efforts; program management support; cost estimating and analysis; and cost accounting. The team may also participate in larger corporate financial functions, processes, programs, and initiatives.

Providing support for operational and information systems that enable program objectives.

 The successful candidate will assist the government agency in a wide range of financial, budget, resource, and program management activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the planning and execution of Agency resource allocations.
• Analyze financial execution performance, build analysis, and update this analysis daily.
• Assist budget analysts in preparation of spend plans and use of the Agency's automated spend plan management tool.
• Prepare Purchase Requests, investigate and process Unliquidated Obligations and perform other financial tasks to support budget analysts.
• Using established systems and databases, research and analyze unliquidated obligations, and assist procurement close-out reconciliations, including assistance to program offices.
• Provide customer support for assigned programs.
• Provide support processing purchase requests (IAA's, MIPR's, G-Invoicing, ECWM)
• Train analysts on the use of financial tools that provide execution and program analysis, along with other comptroller required functions.
• Provide support for Agency's Dormant Account Review Quarterly (DARQ) efforts and processing of DARQ records.
• Provide Help Desk support at a Tier II level for issues related to the Spend Plan Tool.

• Assist in the development of enhancements, initiatives, and other financial tools for spend plans and execution.
• Document development efforts and produce guides, job aids and other information to support the Agency's automated spend plan management system and other financial tools (to include but not limited to DAI, Joint Integrated CBRN Analytic Platform (JICAP), and Dormant Account Review Quarterly (DAR-Q).
• Provide support to Financial Managers by conducting research and analysis on budget and financial management related policies and issues.

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

•  Strong background in Budget execution
• Experience processing PRs using Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI)
• Ability to manage numerous tasks/assignments simultaneously
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office products with an emphasis on MS Excel and SharePoint, possessing a fast-learning aptitude and a dedicated drive to become an advanced user
• Minimum Audit and Accounting experience
• DoD PPBE experience desired
• DoD experience desired
• Minimum 5+ years of experience

• Intermediate Microsoft Office excel proficiency with a dedicated track record of pursuing and adopting advanced data modeling techniques
• Ability to manage, sort, and analyze large data sets utilizing Pivot Tables to extract actionable business insights
• Strong aptitude to use Excel formulas to solve basic and complex analytical problem sets
• Ability to compare and link datasets between spreadsheets
• Ability to isolate, locate and reformat information in large datasets via Excel formulas and Macros

 Education and Certifications:

• Minimum Bachelors, business discipline preferred
• CPA preferred
• CDFM or CGFM/DoD FM Certification preferred

Compensation

$110,000 - $132,000 annually (based on the National Capital Region)

The pay range for this job level at Savantage Solutions serves as a general guideline and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Factors considered when extending an offer include but are not limited to, job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, certifications, seniority, performance, and alignment with market data.

This salary range is based on the National Capital Region and reflects our good faith estimate for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on geographic region or market conditions, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the stated range.

We are committed to providing competitive compensation and encouraging candidates from all locations to apply.

Corporate Summary: 

Savantage Solutions provides a wide range of consulting, systems integration, and financial and project management support to federal and DoD agencies. For over two decades, Savantage Solutions has partnered with organizations in both the public and private sectors to achieve innovative solutions for customers' challenges. 

Savantage Solutions is a woman-owned company that values diversity, initiative, and a commitment to learning and growing. Our philosophy is that diversity is an asset to any industry or organization, and that innovation is only nurtured in an environment that embraces creativity and open minds. We thrive on the ideas and perspectives generated by a diverse workforce.

           Savantage Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer