Senior Data Analyst, Financial

The Opportunity

Does the prospect of unlocking secrets held by financial transaction details excite you? Are you fascinated by the idea of harnessing the power of technology to support the DoD's goal of increased accountability and transparency? The tremendous volume of interconnected contracts, invoicing, disbursing, general ledger, and trial balance data offer a tremendous opportunity to accomplish this goal at the enterprise level. As a Data Analyst, you will transform and consolidate these disparate data sets, building databases, reconciliations, metrics, dashboards, and applications to achieve data completeness and facilitate management decision-making.

We have an opportunity for you to use your analytical skills to improve accountability in the defense industry. You'll work closely with your customers to understand their challenges and requirements, digging into their data-rich environments to identify the key pieces of their contract reporting puzzles. You'll participate in stakeholder interviews and fact-finding efforts, support the development of business rules for customer data sets, and standardize reconciliations to support completeness validations. You'll provide customers with structured solutions for responding to inquiries from internal stakeholders, the DoD, independent public accountants, and others.

Requirements and Qualifications

You Have:

• Experience in financial reporting, auditing, internal controls, or data analytics
• Experience with acquiring, ingesting, and normalizing data, including organizing databases
• Experience with writing data ingestion business rules in SQL and building data reconciliations
• Experience with project management and Scrum Agile development
• Secret clearance
• Bachelor's degree

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with modern relational databases, including MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Experience with Big Data systems, including Databricks, AWS Glue, and S3
• Experience with providing recommendations using dashboards, visualizations, or reports using BI platforms, including QlikSense or Tableau
• Ability to manipulate and integrate databases with SQL or SAS
• Ability to comprehend stakeholder needs effectively, communicate development plans, and track progress milestones
• Ability to navigate a complex matrix environment and manage competing priorities
• Possession of excellent oral and written communication skills, including briefing senior leadership
• Possession of excellent quantitative skills, including statistical analysis, process design, and data management
• Possession of excellent thinking skills, including assessing numbers, trends, and data to reach new conclusions based on findings
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or CS

Clearance

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.