Financial Analyst - BFM

About the position

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing Results that Matter. Come work with the best! We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. Objective. Responsive. Trusted. The AUKUS, Submarines, and Industrial Base Group (ASIG), within the Sea, Land, Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA Team Submarine program offices and key stakeholders surrounding submarine platform construction. Team Submarine unifies submarine platform procurement activities, which includes the Columbia-class SSBN program (a Major Defense Acquisition Program and the Navy's top acquisition priority), the Virginia-class SSN program and the new SSN-X program (developing the next generation attack submarine), to bring improved capabilities to our undersea forces. Analysts and Engineers supporting Team Submarine will continue SPA's decades of support to the SSBN force, as well as supporting oversight of cutting-edge attack submarine construction, assisting in developing the design requirements for the SSN platform of the future, and helping plan and execute new and innovative strategies to strengthen the critical submarine shipbuilding industrial base. These are high-profile, major acquisition and manufacturing programs of significant importance to the future capabilities of the US Navy in an era of renewed strategic competition.

Responsibilities

• Provide business financial management (BFM) support to the NAVSEA AUKUS program.
• Use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), NAVSEA Enterprise Planning System (NEPS) and other financial management systems and reports to obtain, manage, and present financial and business data.
• Ascertain program resource posture and health for multiple appropriations (e.g., Shipbuilding and Construction, Navy (SCN), Operations and Maintenance, Navy (O&MN), Foreign Military Sales (FMS), etc.).
• Formulate yearly program budget requirements to identify contract/procurement and other project costs within an overall program financial requirements plan.
• Provide analysis, verification, and justification of budget or acquisition data while ensuring data traceability and consistency with program budget and acquisition history.
• Assist with task planning development in support of the annual business plan for assigned Phases and funding types.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Familiarity with financial appropriations (i.e. SCN, O&MN, FMS, etc.).
• Recent experience using N-ERP, NEPS, Program Budget Information System (PBIS), RDOCS, PDOCS, COBRA, and other Navy financial management systems.
• Proficiency in and experience executing the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process.
• Active SECRET Clearance, and the ability to maintain it throughout employment.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field.
• Familiarity with DoD Financial Management Regulation (FMR), Department Of Navy (DON) Policy and budget guidance, and DoD 5000 series acquisition regulations.
• Experience developing financial data to respond to Congressional inquiries, and DON, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and Government Accountability Office (GAO) program audits.
• Experience preparing financial documentation to support program acquisition planning and strategy development.
• Experience formulating yearly program budget requirements to identify contract/procurement needs and other project costs within an overall long-term program financial requirements plan.
• Experience working with international partners.
• Experience with FMS.
• Experience with Team Submarine and NAVSEA.