Cleared Financial Business Analyst

This job requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph. Please do not apply unless you already have that level of clearance. Candidates that do not have this clearance will not be contacted.

Description: Seeking an experienced strategic organizational planner to advise and assist a client in the US Intelligence Community. On this multi-year project, the analyst will have the opportunity to demonstrate intellectual agility by providing comprehensive support to the customer's business processes that will support the client in optimizing delivery of specialized projects in support of their mission. This project features the opportunity to interact with a wide range of key stakeholders, including those at senior levels. This is an exciting opportunity for an intellectually curious, energetic management consultant to work on a project with real impact helping our client develop ways of better meeting the needs of the mission.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain pricing structures with the intent to break even over time. These pricing structures include the immediate cost of operations, as well as collections for investments in the business and recapitalization of aged capital infrastructure.
• Track and assess performance and activity levels of the Sponsor's BEs. Recommend methods to optimize performance and improve corporate strategies by leveraging organizational knowledge, reviewing business-related data, using comprehensive data analysis skills, and researching and recommending new analytic practices.
• Track, assess, and report resource capacity leveraging that data to ensure right sizing of contractor workforce.
• Run pricing scenarios to evaluate potential financial impacts and outcomes.
• Assist in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of capturing cost and/or pricing data, and cost recovery activities across organizations by analyzing:
  • Service descriptions
  • Cost and pricing models
  • Billing policies
  • Cost recovery processes
• Compile and analyze cost data charged across the BE and provide status of life-cycle cost estimates.
• Conduct historical analysis of the customer's pricing and performance data, comparing it to any proposed current organizational and pricing modifications.
• Support the customers annual Pricing Assessment exercise, to include:
  • Assemble financial information from the customer office and partners
  • Assess financial data based on the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) model
  • Facilitate Pricing Assessment meetings with Leadership
  • Report on financial analysis through cost-benefit analysis; provide recommendations.
• Coordinate with the Sponsor's Finance team to assess and strategically allocate budget resources for the BE, for example:
  • Use business modeling analysis to assess fiscal standings and forecasting
  • Perform cost-benefit analysis to address long-term strategic decisions
  • Provide life-cycle cost estimation to support fiscal evaluations
• As directed by the Sponsor, prepare and report on organizational performance metrics, analytic findings and trends regarding the Sponsor's BE. Reports shall be presented using dashboards, presentation applications and/or data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, or Microsoft PowerBI) that display operational status, efficiency levels, and trend lines.

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Requires an active TS/SCI security clearance w/ Poly.
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in a finance or business related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in financial or business analysis or project management.
• Strong ability to organize, write, and edit technical and non-technical materials to appeal to specific and varied audiences.
• Strong critical thinking skills and ability to think strategically.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as Microsoft Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience using a shared drive, such as SharePoint and Confluence.
• Experience interacting with customers at all levels and in different offices throughout the organization.
• Excellent organizational skills and superb attention to detail.
• Ability to exercise tact, diplomacy, excellent judgment, personal integrity, and absolute discretion.
• Ability to work independently and effectively with personnel at all levels in a team environment.
• Ability to develop plans and solutions to resolve problems and issues.
• Ability to effectively plan workload, meet established deliverables, and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, multitasking environment and change focus quickly, with a strong commitment to customer satisfaction.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) at the customer site while sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Ability to be in the office during core hours of 9am-3pm
• Routine video conference and/or in-person meetings
• Ability to attend planned meetings within the Washington Metro Area region