Financial Analyst

Dynamis is seeking a Financial Analyst to support the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Division (CSD) with development and implementation of standardized management processes and procedures and the integration of activities across CSD. The Financial Analyst will support the federal budget process, including portfolio management and financial planning, analysis, and reporting. The Financial Analyst will also support strategic planning and analysis, program and project management, budget and financial management, acquisition and procurement, and program analysis and controls.

Responsibilities:

• Support the planning phase of the preliminary strategic planning and alignment to CISA’s goals and planning guidance
• Support the programming phase and the development of the Capital Investment Plan (CIP) and Program Decision Option (PDO) documents based on prioritization of mission requirements
• Assist with developing justification materials, impact statements, and analysis during the budgeting phase of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) cycle
• Support data collection and perform impact analysis for the annual DHS Resource Allocation Decision (RAD), OMB budget submissions, responses to OMB pass-back levels, Congressional Justification/President's Budget Request, and development of expenditure plans
• Support formulating and planning program and project budgets, including assisting with managing the DHS Future Years Homeland Security Plan (FYHSP)
• Support development of detailed multi-year financial plans, including estimates, justification of assumptions, research, and analysis
• Analyze and review the alignment of budgets with strategic and programmatic goals and adherence to fiscal guidance and DHS budget policy
• Review and analyze financial documents and plans and the impact on program objectives and requirements
• Assist and develop financial and budget briefings and presentations, which may include spreadsheet and graphic presentations
• Assist with developing budgetary planning documents and deliverables for external and internal stakeholders
• Assist with formation and planning of program and project budgets and financial plans and briefings for external offices
• Support data analysis for all external requests to include OMB, Congressional, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Briefing Reports
• Support statistical and financial analysis activities
• Track all budget requests, supporting documents, reports, and responses from approved repositories, such as SharePoint, internal shared drives, and Teams
• Create file folders, directories, and naming structures for retrieval and collaboration across the organization
• Support development, review, and implementation of project-level budgets and annual and multi-year spend plans and conduct regular and recurring reviews of resource utilization to identify issues that might impact the program’s overall objectives
• Develop and prepare routine, periodic reports on the allocation, status, tracking, commitment, obligation, and expenditure of funds as well as analysis of variances and recommendations for reconciliation
• Support the established budget change request process and variance reporting by documenting and tracking emerging, changing, or reduction of requirements
• Support development of reports and analysis of trends, actuals, and impacts to existing or future budgets
• Analyze variances and report the status of funds
• Assist with developing and updating financial processes and procedures to adequately account for and safeguard of funds allotted for program and projects
• Support the procurement request process and manage the updates to procurement trackers
• Assist with drafting, identifying, and tracking unfunded requests (UFRs)
• Provide draft justifications and impacts for CSD subdivision budget and resource allocation plan (RAP) decision-making process
• Provide recommendations on the trade-offs within program budget to support must-pays
• Assist with developing briefs and reports for corresponding budget execution plans
• Assist with preparing and delivering monthly budget execution status of funds reports, provide weekly budget summaries regarding program budget taskers and other budget-related activities, and provide weekly summary reports on the status of budget execution activities.
• Provide acquisition data and assist in developing financial trend analyses of contracts and task orders which will assist in determining the financial health of contracts
• Assist Government CORs with contract execution activities, such as organizing and tracking contract invoices and deliverables, monitoring burn rates, and analysis of advance liquidations
• Assist with identifying, developing, reviewing, and reconciling budget and financial data sets according to the approved timeline established by the Government
• Assist with open document listing reports that track all funding documents in the accounting system (Federal Financial Management System (FFMS)) and ensure proper commitments and obligations
• Assist Government CORs with contract closeout tasks, including undelivered obligations (UDOs ), final invoicing, and Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) status
• Assist with developing, implementing, and maintaining tools and databases and reporting systems
• Assist with the approval process that is necessary for program and project management and tracking
• Assist in tracking all Purchase Card (PCARD), training, and reconciling travel funding against the annual budget; ensure that funding is available before making recommendations on the approval status
• Assist with the development, design, and implementation of tools, databases, and reporting systems to integrate and align cost with technical and schedule milestones, financial status of contracts, and improved processes and methods for data collection
• Support the development, design, implementation, preparation, review, maintenance and audit of all required organization and program financial reports and dashboards for budget, procurement, and financial management according to established program timelines
• Support cost estimating to include Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs) & Rough Order of Magnitude estimates (ROMS), proposal cost/price analysis, Unliquidated Obligation (ULO) analyses and reconciliation, and other financial management activities that support acquisition program execution and OCFO requirements
• Maintain and improve cost estimating database/files and financial databases to enhance financial support efficiency

Requirements:

• BA/BS
• 3-10 years of relevant professional experience
• Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility
• Ability to obtain and maintain CISA suitability clearance
• Proficiency with MS Office suite and SharePoint
• Organizational, analytical, critical thinking, and communication skills