Overview

The Senior Business Financial Operations Specialist is a former DoD Business/Financial Professional and/or Corporate Financial Operations Professional seeking to serve their country as a contractor at Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS), Integrated Fires Rapid Capabilities Office (IFRCO), Program Directorate Counter -Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PD C-UAS) in Huntsville, Alabama. The Senior Business Financial Operations Specialist recognizes they represent part of Axient’s competitive strategy as well as their role in supporting the Warfighter, and is motivated by both to excel beyond expectations in every effort they are a part of.

This seasoned (10 years in role) professional shall leverage their subject matter expertise to provide seamless support to the Chief, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) as well as their peers and teammates in a demanding, fast-paced workplace. The candidate wields a combination of calm authority, experience, and professional demeanor to support management and coordination of all PPBE related tasks, and extolls extreme ownership, accountability, traceability, being detail oriented and capable of functioning as a part of a team or independently as needs of the mission dictate as virtues and sets the example for others to follow. New strategic initiatives and challenges are a matter of routine within the PD C-UAS PPBE section, and so the Senior Business Financial Operations Specialist will demonstrate their ability to seamlessly adapt to the environment to assume a leading role in programmatic support developing and integrating programs, plans, strategies and processes to meet business goals for authorization, such as sourcing strategy for commitment of work, cost imperatives, deployment analysis and impact mitigation. Candidate shall, with minimal supervision, coordinate and clarify programmatic details with business partners to validate results and determine scope to meet long range business goals and develop business case. Demonstrates the ability to develop relationships and to coordinate with internal/external organizations to fulfill strategies. The Subject Matter Expert is an expert at identifying both risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case. Professionally collects, compiles, organizes, and provides data according to established processes within the management system to maintain status of programs, customer and supplier commitments and compliance.

Responsibilities

Additional Responsibilities Include, but are not Limited To:

• Research and analyze program milestone requirements, identify potential short- and long-range plans covering overall program goals and objectives.
• Prepare briefings and other material necessary to communicate the strategy, and document final decision. Ensure structure and content requirements for program documents are in accordance with all required DoD, Army, PEO MS, and other relevant guidance, directives, and policies.
• Gather and integrate data from the programmatic, engineering, test and evaluation, configuration management, and logistics functions to prepare program Spend Plan documentation.
• Track program documents through all phases of the approval process and following submittal for staff coordination at higher levels, as appropriate. Maintain a document repository.
• Perform planning, analysis, formulation, justification, presentation, execution tracking, and review of current and multi-year budgets for assigned programs, which include Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTE); Other Procurement, Army (OPA); and Operations and Maintenance, Army (OMA) appropriations.
• Monitor obligations and expenditures, and support development and review of program budgets.
• Track/analyze program funding and prepare monthly/as-needed execution reports to report progress against established financial metrics.
• Support development of high-visibility cost/budget products in response to U.S. Army and Congressional requirements, including P&R Forms, Army Program Budget Reviews (formerly DASC Parade/SmartCharts), and Program Objective Memorandum (POM) program reviews.
• Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.
• Aid the PPBE Chief with program integration, as well as procedural, technical, budget estimates, and financial cost analysis, cost estimating, cost scheduling and financial programming.
• Work on assignments, review and check obligations, expenditures, reimbursable orders, and requests for allotments to ensure funds are being spent in accordance with annual financial plans.
• Assists with budget preparation and management for all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution process.
• Perform budget and financial analysis, obligation and expenditure forecasting, funds management, funds status, and funds control techniques and/or systems, accounting and finance systems and/or procedures.
• Prepares a variety of reports covering the status of funds and advises program managers and management officials on the availability of funds.
• Execute data entry within Comprehensive Cost and Requirements System (CCaRS), will train if required
• Perform Integrated Baseline Review team planning.
• Provide training for Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) teams.
• Support the government customer in performance analysis of Contract Performance Reports (CPRs), Cost/Schedule Status Reports (C/SSR), Contract Funds Status Report (CFSR) and Contract personnel Cost Data Reports (CCDR).
• Support the client in the creation of Contract Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs) for the above reports, as well as the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and Contract personnel Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) dictionary.
• Apply knowledge of DoDD 5000.1/DoDI 5000.02 and DoD Financial Management and associated Regulations, , and DFAS Regulations/Guidance.
• Prepares program reports and financial documentation, draws conclusions and devises solutions to problems relating to improvement of financial management effectiveness, work methods, financial systems, and procedure efficiency.
• Design and maintains program budgets and other financial tracking documentation.
• Utilize software applications such as PMRT, CCaR, DTS, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word
• Conduct research and provide inputs to program financial management, including budget preparation and management for all phases of the research program.
• Maintain and provide administration of the CCARS database.
• Assist with proposal development, if necessary.

Qualifications

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of demonstrated verifiable experience.
• Shall be a subject matter expert regarding government fiscal policies and procedures.
• Shall be a subject matter expert regarding financial regulations and criteria, within the specific area of cost estimating, contract personnel shall be familiar with performing life cycle cost versus mission effectiveness assessments and designing detailed cost estimates to enable well-informed program decisions, risk analyses/assessments, systems engineering decisions, and logistics and sustainment decisions.

Education:

• BA/BS or MA/MS degree.
• 15-20 years of experience can be substituted for BA/BS degree.

Other Required Skills & Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills and above average verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with customer and fulfill all duties and responsibilities as listed in the contract.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office suite including, but not limited to: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.

Security Clearance: Secret security clearance required.