Financial Analyst - Government Contracting
Orchard LLC

Financial Analyst - Government Contracting

Work from Home within the Continental United States - Must work Eastern Standard Time Hours

@Orchard LLC is supporting a not-for-profit corporation that partners with public and private sectors to create high-quality, safe, and efficient delivery of health care and human services programs. Our client has multiple lines of business including population health, utilization review, managed care organization quality review, and quality assurance for programs serving individuals with developmental disabilities. Our client is also a national leader in fighting fraud, waste, and abuse for large organizations across the country. In addition, our client operates a foundation providing grant opportunities to those with programs for under-served communities.

The Financial Analyst develops, interprets, and implements complex financial and accounting concepts, or techniques for corporate financial planning and control. Possible travel to the home office in Easton, MD as needed.

As a Financial Analyst, you will:

• Works closely with Business Unit Leaders to provide financial and business analysis support; coordinates development and monitoring of monthly contract projections relating to existing contractual activities to ensure contractual compliance. Through coordination with all levels of management gathers, analyzes, summarizes, and prepares recommendations regarding financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, trended future requirements, government requirements, and operating forecasts to Executive Management.
• Interacts with internal and external co-workers at all levels; seeks to find problems and create innovative solutions that benefit all parties and protect the company's interests. Maintains open lines of communication with both CFO and Subsidiary Presidents, ensuring that the Finance department works closely with the contracts teams in all finance-related matters.
• Monitors and maintains system integrity of forecast system and facilitates enhancements. Works closely with Project Directors and Managers to ensure accuracy of forecast at all times. Knowledgeable in areas where changes within the contract will impact the forecast, recommends and performs additional research or analysis as needed to ensure forecast accuracy.
• Establishes databases of pertinent information for use in analyzing future plans and forecasts.
• Oversees the fiscal year contract budgeting process, working with Project Directors, Project Managers, and CFO to ensure budgetary regulations/constraints.
• Provides insight, analysis, and recommendations for financial reporting systems, internal controls, and policies and procedures.
• Oversees corporate training activities to train non-financial staff requiring contract training and coaching. Provides training sessions and training manuals as needed to improve indirect and contract staff understanding of budgeting and planning process.
• Analyzes financial information to determine present and future financial performance. Identifies trends and recommends improvements accordingly. Notifies President, CFO and contract staff when significant over or under spending is forecasted and recommends courses of action to correct the trend.
• Directs preparation of studies, reports, and analyses in areas such as budgets, forecasts, financial plans, governmental requirements, statistical reports, cash flow projections, and business forecasts as requested. Prepares recommendations for policy, procedure, control, or action.
• Oversees and participates in the RFP costing and modifications and ensures accuracy of processes for costing, including preparing cost proposal documents, FTE analysis, other direct cost and contract funding. Works with subcontractors to determine their levels of staffing, negotiate their costs, and refine their proposals for final submission. Communicates with the customer to ensure all requirements are met when cost proposal is submitted.
• Works closely with Corporate CFO, Director of FP&A, and/or Director of Accounting in the development of other corporate financial requirements

Your background will include:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business
• At least eight (8) years of progressively responsible cost accounting experience and government contracting experience
• Financial analysis and reporting experience required
• Experience with pricing for proposals preferred

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Accounting software; Database software and Spreadsheet software.
• Strong knowledge of financial accounting, analytics, operations, proforma statements, and cost/price analysis.
• Experience with Unanet desired, however, similar systems considered.
• Must be able to work outside normal business hours if required (i.e., month-end Close)

If you match the requirements for this opportunity and believe you have the experience and talent to succeed in the role, we need to hear from you!

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC, also known as, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI. Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.

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