Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Financial Analyst III – Government Contracting

Work from Home – Commutable to Easton, MD

@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.

Our client is seeking a seasoned Financial Analyst III to join their team and play a pivotal role in driving financial soundness and strategic decision-making within the organization.

As a Financial Analyst III, you will :

· Leverage your advanced financial experience to facilitate comprehensive financial analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

· Work closely with cross-functional teams to provide experienced-based recommendations to optimize financial performance and mitigate potential risks.

· Gather detailed financial reports and presentations for management, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.

· Own key financial analysis responsibilities, from costing out company resources to formulating data specific to the customer, as well as writing business narratives to maximize contract wins.

· Prepare cost proposal documents for RFQs, RFPs, and modifications, including FTE analysis, other direct costs, contract funding, and business narratives.

· Work with subcontractors to determine their staffing levels, negotiate costs, and refine their proposals for final submission.

· Provide proactive communication with the customer to ensure all financial requirements are fully met when cost proposals are submitted.

· Drive the correction of significant over or under-spending trends through recommended courses of action by evaluating financial performance, identifying trends, and driving improvements.

· Communicate with internal and external teams to find innovative solutions that protect the company's interests by advising senior management on financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, and operating forecasts.

· Provide insight and formulate recommendations for financial reporting systems, internal controls, and policies and procedures to enhance financial management capabilities.

· Formulate recommendations for policies, procedures, controls, or actions by directing the preparation of studies, reports, and analyses in various financial areas.

· Facilitate training sessions and provide manuals to improve staff understanding of the budgeting and planning process by guiding corporate training activities to train non-financial staff on contract matters.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Owns responsibility for key financial analysis responsibilities, from costing out company resources to formulating data specific to the customer, as well as writing business narratives when required, to maximize contract wins.
• Prepares cost proposal documents for RFQs, RFPs, and modifications including FTE analysis, other direct costs and contract funding, and business narratives.
• Works with subcontractors to determine their levels of staffing, negotiate their costs, and refine their proposals for final submission.
• Communicates proactively with the customer to ensure all financial requirements are fully met when cost proposals are submitted.
• Drives the correction of significant over or under-spending trends through recommended courses of action by evaluating financial performance, identifying trends, and driving improvements.
• Communicates with internal and external teams to find innovative solutions that protect the company's interests by advising senior management on financial plans, acquisition activity, new business planning, and operating forecasts.
• Provides insight and formulates recommendations for financial reporting systems, internal controls, and policies and procedures to enhance financial management capabilities.
• Formulates recommendations for policies, procedures, controls, or actions by directing the preparation of studies, reports, and analyses in various financial areas.
• Facilitates training sessions and provides manuals to improve staff understanding of the budgeting and planning process by guiding corporate training activities to train non-financial staff on contract matters.

Your background will include:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree
• CPA, CMA, or CGFM desirable
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience; 8-11 years of experience preferred
• Proven track record of developing and managing complex financial models
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Experience in preparing cost proposals for RFQs, RFPs, and contract modifications
• Experience in negotiating costs and refining proposals with subcontractors
• Experience in communicating financial requirements and proposals to customers
• Experience in evaluating financial performance and identifying trends
• Experience in advising senior management on financial plans and forecasts
• Experience in formulating recommendations for financial reporting systems and controls
• Experience in providing financial training and guidance to non-financial staff
• Advanced knowledge and use in Excel to include VLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables, etc.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with Government Contracting a huge plus.

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!

The compensation for this opportunity is in the $90,000-$95,000 range, based on experience.

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 .

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