Role Description
The Senior Budget/Program Analyst serves as the Project Manager’s principal advisor for the program financial management, budgeting, resource planning, and program controls supporting the DHA LAN/WLAN modernization program. This position provides financial oversight across multiple concurrent Site Engineering Activities (SEAs), monitoring labor utilization, contract funding, CLIN/SLIN execution, procurement expenditures, travel, materials, and overall cost performance.
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Serve as the primary program control and financial management advisor to the project manager, providing timely analysis and recommendations to support informed business decisions.
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Develop, maintain, and monitor program budgets, spend plans, funding profiles, resource plans, and financial forecasts to support contract execution.
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Monitor labor utilization, indirect costs, travel, materials, other direct costs (ODCs), and overall cost performance against approved budgets and funding.
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Monitor and reconcile CLIN/SLIN funding, expenditures, obligations, remaining balances, and funding modifications to ensure accurate contract financial visibility and compliance.
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Perform cost analysis, variance reporting, trend analysis, and financial forecasting to identify execution risks and support proactive program management.
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Prepare executive financial dashboards, budget reports, funding analysis, burn-rate reports, and management briefings for Government and corporate leadership.
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Coordinate with program management, contracts, procurement, accounting, and technical teams to align funding actions, contract modifications, procurement planning, invoice review, and resource plans.
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Support development of Estimates at Completion (EACs), resource forecasts, staffing analyses, and program financial projections.
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Identify financial risks, funding constraints, and execution issues, and recommend practical mitigation strategies to support program objectives.
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Ensure financial activities comply with contract requirements, corporate financial policies, and government reporting requirements.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, public administration, economics, statistics, or a related field; approved equivalent substitution may be considered.
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Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience supporting financial management, budgeting, cost analysis, or program controls for DoD or Federal Government contracts.
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Demonstrated experience supporting complex Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee (CPFF), Time & Materials (T&M), or Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) contracts through budget development, financial forecasting, labor and cost analysis, resource planning, and executive financial reporting.
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Experience managing contract funding, CLINs/SLINs, labor categories, burn rates, obligations, expenditures, and cost performance.
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Ability to analyze financial data, identify variances and trends, and translate findings into clear recommendations for program leadership.
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Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite, including pivot tables, lookups, financial modeling, charts, dashboard development, documentation and briefing materials.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to brief financial information to technical, programmatic, and executive audiences.
Requirements
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Active T3 Secret clearance is required. Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain all required access and security credentials throughout the period of contract performance.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience supporting DHA, U.S. Army, DoD, or other federal enterprise programs.
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Experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructure, network modernization, engineering, or systems integration programs.
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Experience using Deltek Costpoint, Cobra, Power BI, Microsoft Project, or similar financial and program management tools.
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Familiarity with U.S. Army/DoD budget/funding processes, contract modifications, procurement planning, and invoice reconciliation.
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Experience managing budgets and program financials in a cost-plus fixed fee environment.
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Experience preparing customer and corporate leadership-ready financial dashboards, variance narratives, and decision-support briefings.
Work Environment
This position supports a collaborative program management environment requiring close coordination with program management, contracts, procurement, finance, accounting, logistics, and technical teams. The Senior Budget/Program Analyst must be able to manage multiple priorities, analyze complex financial information, communicate effectively with technical and executive leadership, and deliver timely, accurate program financial reporting supporting mission-critical contract execution.
This position is contingent upon contract award and successful completion of applicable background investigations and customer onboarding requirements.
