Senior Budget Analyst

MDW Associates is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to provide sound financial stewardship, expert analysis, and innovative approaches to our National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) client at Stennis Space Center, Bay St, Louis, MS. This position is onsite, so candidates must be able/willing to commute to NASA (SSC).

Essential job functions will include but may not be limited to:

• Serve as an analyst to systematically integrate business, cost estimating and financial management processes aiding to ensure the efficient stewardship of public funds
• Support the formulation of strategic financial plans correlates financing requirements into executable budgets
• Possess thorough knowledge of the allocation, execution, and administration of approved budgets
• Assess products and procedures for compliance with Government standards, accounting principles, internal controls, and multi-tiered system application standards
• Ensure that tasks are completed in the time frame specified by the client and assist in the preparation of milestone status reports and presentations for colleagues, subordinates, management, and end user representatives
• Meet all time sensitive report deadlines and accept new assignments with varying requirements; deliver to a high level of completeness and accuracy
• May serve as a mentor and resource for junior contractor budget analysts assisting with their development
• May leverage expertise to support multiple Organizations and/or Centers
  
  

Required Experience/Skills

• Specialized experience in financial data processing, combining data sources and communicating results.
• Advanced computer skills with proficiency in Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, INDEX(MATCH)
• Intermediate level proficiency with Power BI
• Power Query for data sourcing/transformation
• Data Visualization
• Experience connecting Power BI and Excel to other data sources
• Proficient in the accounting systems and processes
• Familiar with activity-based costing, business case analysis and outsourcing requirements
• Strong system documentation skills
• Must be able to grasp interrelationships between financial management requirements and automated solutions, considering the current system environment and the potential integration of added systems concurrently or later
  

Education Requirements

• Candidates for this position must possess a BA/BS degree in related field. (accounting, finance, etc.)
  
  

Company Description Incorporated in 2012, MDW is a small business headquartered in McLean, VA. We provide Federal government clients with consulting, management services, advisory and assistance services, decision support, strategic planning, process planning and improvement, task execution and metrics analysis. Our mission is to make our clients more successful by providing honest assessments, exceptional analysis, prudent advice, direct communication and hard work.

Our Core Capabilities Include

• Accounting Support Services
• Strategic Planning
• Cost Estimating
• Budget Programming and Justification
• Budget Execution
• Acquisition Management
• Financial Systems Support & Integration
  
  

MDW Associates, LLC ("MDW") is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, covered veteran status, mental or physical disability, pregnancy or any other unlawful basis unrelated to the ability to do the job. MDW seeks to employ talented, ethical and entrepreneurial-minded persons. Our applicants and employees are protected from discrimination as required by Federal law.

Additional Information

We offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits and compensation package for our employees, including but not limited to:

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Group Life Insurance/Long Term Disability/Short Term Disability
• Retirement/401(k)
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.