Business Financial Professional

Location: Fort Meade, Maryland (onsite)
Job Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Assist in the execution of the Program’s Budget through the creation/maintenance of spend plans, requisitions and their supporting documents.  Coordinate financial data with appropriate Government officials, such as Business Financial Managers, Program Managers, Contract Managers, Contracting Officers and Contracting Specialists. Contribute to the maintenance of current resources to support day-to-day mission activities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Assist with Financial Management and Validation:
    • Validate and complete Unliquidated Obligations (ULOs).
    • Enter and modify requisitions in the financial management system, ensuring inclusion of all necessary information.
  • Support End-of-Year Activities and Data Calls:
    • Assist with conducting end-of-year activities and completing actual data calls in coordination with Government Business Contract Management Offices.
  • Prepare and Process Financial Requests:
    • Prepare Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPR) and Economy Act Orders (EAO), along with their associated requisitions.
    • Process incoming MIPRs and EAOs to ensure Agency acceptance.
  • Financial Planning and Reporting:
    • Create and maintain spend plans.
    • Provide financial status reports, identifying funding sources, shortfalls, and excesses.
  • Assist in Budget and Financial Planning:
    • Monitor expenses against budgets.
    • Coordinate and finalize basis of estimate data, including current year updates.
    • Assist in the creation of budgets and financial planning for organizational units or programs,

Qualifications:

  • Experience Requirements:
    • Twelve (12) years of experience in DoD, IC, or
    • Fourteen (14) years of combined DoD, IC, and commercial experience in purchasing or finance.
  • Education:
    • Bachelor’s Degree with a business focus OR see alternate qualifications below
  • Required Skills and Experience:
    • Experience in report preparation reflecting program/project status in cost, schedule, and performance.
    • Experience in budget planning, preparation, and execution for acquisition programs.
    • Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including creating formulas and pivot tables.
    • Proficiency with PowerPoint, especially in importing Excel data into presentations.
  • Preferred Experience:
    • Experience with NSA’s financial management system and its interfaces are highly valued.
  • Alternate Qualifications:
    • In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree:
      • Program Management Professional (PMP) certification, or
      • Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM), or
      • DAWIA Level I in Business/Financial Management, plus
      • Three (3) years of directly related experience for a total of fifteen (15) years of DoD/IC purchasing/finance experience or seventeen (17) years of combined DoD, IC, and commercial purchasing/finance experience.
    • In lieu of certification:
      • An additional two (2) years of directly related experience for a total of seventeen (17) years of DoD/IC purchasing/finance experience or nineteen (19) years of combined DoD, IC, and commercial purchasing/finance experience.
  • TS-SCI with poly required

Coda Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, marital status, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.