Financial Manager, Senior

Position Overview

The Senior Financial Manager provides high-level financial management, cost estimation, Earned Value Management (EVM) implementation, and general comptroller support for the Directorate. In this role, the selected candidate will deliver comprehensive financial analysis and program control integration across a wide range of development, procurement, and modification programs. Operating within complex technology portfolios, the Senior Financial Manager ensures strict adherence to DoD financial instructions, Air Force guidance, and federal acquisition regulations to maintain robust fiscal control and programmatic integrity.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:
Core Financial Management & Budgeting

• PPBE Support: Coordinates budget formulation and management throughout all phases of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) processes.
• Formulation & Forecasting: Performs detailed research to develop obligation and expenditure forecasts for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E), procurement, stock funds, Defense Working Capital Fund (DWCF), and operations and support funding.
• Budget Integration Systems: Analyzes Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System (ABIDES) outputs and maintains continuous comparison sheets tracking current positions versus prior updates.
• Document Management: Utilizes the Integrated Budget Documentation and Execution System (IDECS) to prepare and update key procurement and RDT&E documents, ensuring strict reconciliation with ABIDES.
• Funds Tracking: Employs Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR) and Miscellaneous Obligation Reimbursement Document (MORD) procedures to execute rigorous monthly reviews.

Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Support

• SA Reviews: Serves as a financial representative at Security Assistance (SA) management reviews and other critical financial meetings.
• Briefing Prep: Drafts comprehensive financial briefings, delivery reports, and Notices of Supplies and Services Complete (NSSCs).
• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Conducts quick-turnaround financial analyses accompanied by formal narrative justifications for urgent leadership exercises.

Financial Reconciliation & Funds Control

• Cross-Agency Interface: Leads financial reconciliation efforts by interfacing with multiple Air Force organizations, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), prime contractors, subcontractors, and other DoD agencies.
• Obligation Liquidation: Researches and liquidates Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs) and Negative Unliquidated Obligations (NULOs) across all current and prior fiscal years.
• Payment Auditing: Verifies payment records against contract deliverables, identifies improper payments, and recommends corrective actions for discrepancies.
• Overtime Monitoring: Accounts for all overtime requests versus actual expenditure, briefing the Government regularly on overtime budget status.
• Process Improvement: Optimizes existing tracking methods, updates procedures, and develops instructional inputs for handbooks.

Program Integration & Analysis

• Risk Management: Identifies, qualifies, and evaluates schedule and cost risks contained in annual cost/budget estimates, proposing mitigation strategies.
• Reporting Inputs: Develops financial inputs for core program documents including program management plans, program baselines, work breakdown structures (WBS), and risk assessments.
• Acquisition Tracking: Reviews and updates inputs for Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR), Monthly Acquisition Reports (MAR), and Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES).
• EVM & Performance Metrics: Supports program offices by analyzing Cost Performance Reports (CPR), Cost/Schedule Status Reports (CSSR), Contract Funds Status Reports (CFSR), and Contractor Cost Data Reports (CCDR).
• Team Training: Trains multifunctional Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and surveillance review teams on advanced EVM and analysis techniques.
• Design Support: Assists in material solution analyses and drafts presentations or documentation based on programmatic limits (cost, schedule, and performance) ahead of design reviews.

Financial Systems & Compliance

• System Proficiency: Actively utilizes and manages inputs across a variety of Air Force/AFLCMC accounting and contracting databases, including: CCaRs, CRIS, ABSS, IDECS II, OARS, FM Suite, CMCS, WAWF, SAMRS, DISAM, MOCAS, BOQ, and SDW.
• Policy Application: Applies a thorough understanding of DoDD 5000.1, DoDI 5000.02, DoD Financial Management Regulations (FMR), Air Force AFI 65 series, AFMC financial instructions, and DFAS guidelines.
• Federal Standards: Operates in strict compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), and Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS).
• Year-End Support: Assists in year-end closeout team activities, Program Management Administration (PMA) budget preparation, and compilation of quarterly reports.

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Required Experience

One of the following combinations of education/experience:

• • Master's Degree (MA/MS), and twelve (12) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline, five (5) of which must be in the DoD.
  • Bachelor's Degree (BA/BS), and Fifteen (15) years of experience in the respective technical/professional discipline, five (5) of which must be in the DoD.
  • HS Diploma, and twenty (20) years of directly related experience, eight (8) of which must be in the DoD.
• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams), Adobe Acrobat, and modern web browsers.
• U.S. Citizenship required; Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior SPO Financial Management experience supporting FMS customers.

Applicant selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. COLSA Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.