Financial Program Analyst Job Description
Financial program analyst
provides financial planning and analysis support to Corporate Finance and Business partners during the annual Budget planning process.
Financial Program Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
EVMS, Government financial reporting, cost/schedule status reports (CSSR), cost performance reports (CPR's) preparation
Multiple US government contract types (FFP / T&M / FPIF / CPFF) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
Monthly TAP customer contract reconciliations
Develop standard documentation and procedures for Fleet program revenue recognition and billings/cash receipt processes
Running monthly financial management packages Support Customer Unit forecast process
Working in the forecast tool
Answering master data queries
Support in cost center budget process
Support cost center managers to understand their cost centers
Analysts will have regular check in's with Finance and Human Resources to assess project assignments, key learnings and feedback
Financial Program Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Financial Program Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PM, FEP, CPA, PMP, CMA, ITIL, DAWIA, CFA, SAP, CDFI
Education for Financial Program Analyst
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Employers hiring for the financial program analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Business/Administration, Government, Technical, Education, Engineering, Management, Science
Skills for Financial Program Analyst
Desired skills for financial program analyst include:
Contracting environment relating to technical
DOD and USN Policies and Procedures
Experience with budget and financial management and analysis
Government
Identification of new business opportunities
Planning and budget process
Scientific and analytical services
Army’s Total Army Analysis process and how it integrates with the POM process
Certain business practices and products particularly in the areas of finance and sponsored project accounting
Defense Acquisition Guidebook
Desired experience for financial program analyst includes:
Two to three years work experience in financial service
Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting or a quantitative discipline, or experience in the finance field
Ability to adapt to new challenges in a dynamic and fast-paced environment while managing multiple projects
Previous valuation experience and working knowledge of Capital IQ and Bloomberg are a plus
Willingness to relocate based on assignment
Understand and apply fundamental concepts, general administrative principles, practices and finance procedures
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Financial Program Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of financial program analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for financial program analyst
- Provide specialized cost accounting support on complex product lines, including project manufacturing, and/or sensitive program support requiring necessary security clearances and specialized accounting knowledge
- Under supervised direction, prepare budgets, forecast, and relate reports for specified profit and cost centers to monitor overall financial performance for use in annual strategic planning and budget presentations to financial and operating management
- Conduct financial analysis of cost and revenue data for current month, quarterly updates and annual financial planning
- Interface with Program Managers, Business Unit Managers in deriving and updating revenue forecast
- Extensive use of EXCEL, SAP, MPM
- Interpret established policies, procedures, and standard practices to develop reports to ensure that financial planning and cost control activities are successfully implemented and maintained
- Respond to moderately complex inquiries from employees, managers, and external parties regarding a variety of financial data, some of which contain confidential and sensitive information, which require tact and discretion in handling
- Maintain, analyze, update, and develop various electronic and hard copy records
- Assist in establishing profit center revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, discretionary spending through profit (loss) and cost center cost, base, and rate budgets
- Prepare a variety of actual vs
Qualifications for financial program analyst
- Support development of standardized tools for project management process, including work plans, estimates and schedules, to ensure progress on milestones
- Support management and communication of information about project status and changes in strategy, initiatives, standards, priorities and resource allocation
- Candidates must be graduating in May 2016
- Knowledge of SDLC and Project Management practices
- Requires a bachelor's degree with an emphasis in finance
- Must be customer focused and possess the ability to identify issues and develop solutions to a variety of problems of diverse scope and complexity
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Our company is looking to fill the role of financial program analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial program analyst
- Compliance with a variety of commercial and government requirements
- Entry/upload of invoices into various commercial and government applications
- Serve as strategic advisors to government leads, manage project staff deliverables, conduct financial & data analytics, and participate in senior leadership presentations in support of investment/divestment, unfunded request, decisions
- MPM update, analysis and lockdown
- Budget baseline effort, maintenance and updates
- Improve business processes, systems and documentation
- Participate in month-end close activities such as financial statement analytical reviews and journal entry preparation
- Participate on project teams working on our latest technology enhancements
- Participate in evaluating, reinforcing and promoting the SOX 404 and 302 program standards and approaches for documentation, control design evaluation and effectiveness testing
- Challenge status quo and bring effective ideas to enhance the SOX program
Qualifications for financial program analyst
- Conducts routine reporting and/or analysis as directed
- May provide financial, analytical, planning, and forecasting expertise to assist in the development and completion of projects
- Assists in developing specialized analytical tools for project or ongoing use
- May review results of assigned analyses with more experienced staff, assisting in the identification of unexpected results
- Assists in developing financial analytical and forecasting models to test assumptions and predict results of business initiatives
- May assist in the research and review details of business operating metrics and actively seeks to identify and promote new opportunities or products for assigned line(s) of business
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Financial Program Analyst Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a financial program analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for financial program analyst
- Managing repairs reporting process and customer quotes, assessing program performance against that EAC, any potential financial risks to that EAC
- Process a variety of invoice types, including FFP, CPFF, and T&M invoices
- Maintenance of historical electronic billing files/records (paperless processing)
- Support and develop processes for data analytics, cost benefit, cost estimating models, risk and sensitivity analysis to deliver data-driven IT investment recommendations for CIO-T and Open IT portfolio
- Conduct cost benefit analysis of agency-wide and IC-wide IT investments and make recommendations to help the Deputy Director, CIO, Deputy CIO, Chief Financial Executive, and IT Portfolio Lead maximize NGA’s benefits while minimizing cost
- Identify and introduce CIO-T and Open IT leadership to alternate and innovative ideas, approaches, and methods to issues and challenges through corporate reach-back
- Review, analyze and provide TCFP and Open IT Portfolio with recommendations on IT Portfolio Management Instructions, Manuals, and other Policy documentation
- Conduct financial and benefit analysis for strategic business cases which influence investment/divestment decisions for the CIO-T and Open IT Portfolio Program Build
- Research and work with TCFP leadership, Program Managers, Capability Program Managers, Portfolio Leads, and FM resources to identify and coordinate solutions to funding gaps in CIO-T IT investments during Program Build efforts
- Conduct analysis of and develop briefings for the CIO assessing NGA’s IT budgets against commercial industry benchmarked IT spending rates
Qualifications for financial program analyst
- Ability to use common office equipment (e.g., calculator, PC, fax machine)
- Ability to communicate with managers at various levels within the organization
- Analyzes complex financial data
- Practical Earned Value Management (EVM) experience, inclusive of analyzing cost and schedule variance and developing reports, strongly preferred
- Experience with Costpoint, Cognos and Program Control Software (MPM, Cobra)
- Define and put together the Program’s budget
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Our growing company is looking for a financial program analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for financial program analyst
- Monitors prime contract financial details, especially funding and burn rates
- Finance Rotational Program- Spend 1 year each in 2 to 3 different areas of Finance and Operations
- Provide analyses, action items and recommendations on current company operations
- Play an active role in yearly budgeting and forecasting, monthly financial close activities, variance analyses and other analytical projects around the company
- Assist with monthly and ad-hoc analyses in numerous areas, including Finance, International, Sales, Executive Operations, Distribution Operations, Branch Operations, Facilities, HR and IT
- Consolidated Monthly Business Reviews
- Consolidated direct base forecast
- Utilize knowledge gained in build out of new Finance Data Warehouse to build reporting solutions needed by Finance end users to improve analytic capabilities and process efficiencies
- Manage to tight deadlines and drive for results, while being extremely detail orientated
- Prepare project plans and track projects through fruition
Qualifications for financial program analyst
- Present and communicate throughout our financial governances monthly and quarterly results, risks, opportunities and recommendations
- Experience with F&A Proposal compilation or review
- Knowledge of Recharge/Cost Center rate proposal review and rate setting/costing methodologies
- Intermediate experience with Microsoft Excel and Access
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related Business
- Two - three years of public accounting experience
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Financial Program Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of financial program analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for financial program analyst
- Provide technical guidance to other staff members regarding agency fiscal policy and procedures
- Perform routine audits of databases and files
- Develops, implements, and monitors task(s) progress
- Applies analytic methodologies and principles to address section needs
- Conducts analyst functions including data collection, interviewing, data modeling, project testing, and creation of performance measurements to support project objectives
- Prepare total program budget exhibits for presentation
- Be responsible to the 340B Pharmacy Program Manager, the 340B Oversight Council and to the institutional compliance authority regarding adherence to the qualifications to the details, policies, and procedures of the 340B Program regulations and guidelines
- Through a thorough understanding of the 340B program, consistently improve the overall efficiency, value and internal support of the program
- Develop reports (cost analysis, trends and forecasts) used to educate staff and give strategic guidance to Pharmacy and Hospital leadership
- Routinely monitor all areas of 340B outpatient use with Pharmacy Supply Chain and Finance to ensure maximum participation continually looking for additional qualified areas
Qualifications for financial program analyst
- Bachelor's degree in a Business related field with emphasis in finance, accounting or economics
- Candidates should be recent graduates or students in last year of Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Industrial Engineer or related areas
- Upload a 1 page written essay explaining why you should be selected for this program
- Minimum academic index 2.3/3
- Requires bachelor's degree or equivalent (Finance, Accounting or Business Administration preferred), and one to two years of related experience (open to recent graduates)
- Familiarity with billing requirements on CPFF, T&M, and FFP contracts