Portfolio & Strategic Planning Financial Analyst - Arcfield

Arcfield was purpose-built to protect the nation and its allies through innovations in digital transformation, space mission engineering and launch assurance, miniaturized sensors and satellites, advanced modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, and conventional and hypersonic missile support. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 16 global offices, Arcfield employs more than 1,500 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals with more than 60 years of collective proven experience supporting missions in cyber and space defense, space exploration, hypersonic and nuclear deterrence and warfighter readiness. Visit arcfield.com for more details.

The customer is seeking an experienced and motivated individuals to perform in the role of Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer (aka Plans and Budget Officer).  The candidate will be responsible for providing expert resource management support to the PMO portfolio.  The candidate will establish and implement resource management processes and metrics, provide support to financial, budget planning and execution, and organize financial data into up-to-date records.  

Key responsibilities of the Portfolio, Performance, and Strategic Planning Officer include but are not limited to:  

• Providing strategic and programmatic plans and budget support to the CLOUDworks activities.
• Support Office in formulating, justifying and defending budget build. 
• Develop and maintain spend plans.
• Reconciles spend plans with actual and planned expenditures and recommends options to address potential over- or under- utilization of resources.
• Stays current with Sponsor and Directorates Resource Management guidance and assists in creating and maintaining baseline practices and procedures that align with guidance.
• Assists personnel in researching and resolving resource and budget issues and questions wherever possible. 
• Prepares supporting documentation for budget exercises, over-guidance, unfunded calls, and reprogramming. 
• Assists with writing congressional language for submission into the Sponsor’s program build. 
• Performs short- and long-term financial trend analysis for the office. 
• Prepares briefings, budget, spend plans, and programmatic activities.
• Coordinates and responds to budget requirements and budget taskings.
• Collaborates with Directorate’s resource Management Team as required, attends resource meetings. 
• Continually interface with executive level management requiring the planning, presentation and briefing of information.

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Poly.
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Demonstrates professional competence as a plans and budget officer
• Proven ability to run reports in COGNOS, track and enter BCRs in BASIS, TITAN, P6 to include tracking and assessing of execution constantly.
• Exhibits full awareness of financial resource requirements both for the execution year and budget out-years.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate financial data to resolve inconsistencies, identify key issues, and propose solutions.
• Develops and implements long-range plans to accomplish office goals and collaborates in strategic planning for future years.
• Experience preparing budget exercise submissions; assimilates information about program goals, requirements, costs, and schedules; ensures that submissions are rational, defensible, and executable.
• Ensures that program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and remains consistent with goals; proposes and implements resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances.
• Exhibits broad comprehension of relevant statutes, regulations, and policies in resource utilization and in the budget development and execution processes.
• Routinely constructs and maintains background documentation on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity.
• Exhibits strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates excellent writing skills and ability to craft clear concise request for funding and responses to taskings.
• Demonstrates excellent oral communication skills to brief management on resource issues.
• Proven ability to interact with customers, senior leadership, and program managers in a highly matrixed environment.

Desired Skills:

• Awareness of Sponsors’ programs, policies, and systems.
• Ability to work and apply creativity in a fast-paced environment.

EEO

Arcfield proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active-Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.