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George Consulting, LTD · 1 day ago

CPD Financial Program Analyst

Washington, DC

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

George Consulting is seeking a CPD Financial Program Analyst to support the NIPO Japan Program at the Washington Navy Yard. The role involves providing administrative, analytic, and management support for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) case development and ensuring effective communication and coordination among various stakeholders.

ConsultingInformation TechnologyProject Management

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Support Department of the Navy (DoN) and Department of Defense (DoD) Security Cooperation (SC), Security Assistance (SA) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) assessments, staff organization, and administrative requirements

Able to work independently with limited direction and be self-motivated

Able to work with other contractor teammates and customers daily

Able to work closely with customers to ensure deliverables meet their expectations and arrive in a timely manner

Attend and actively participate in team meetings

Understanding Program Analysts in IPO –02 Regional Branches

Our Program Analysts in IPO-02 Regional Branches CPD and BPC Leads. Country Program Directors (CPDs) and BPC Leads at Navy IPO are Navy Officers and Civil Servants that act as official Points of Contact for the US Navy to foreign governments for FMS. Our analysts provide them administrative, analytic, and management support specific to internal and enterprise-wide FMS case development, management, and administration

Provide direct support to specific country program directors, managing the case portfolio and responding to executive level issues and concerns

Primary focus of this opening is to Assist CPD in driving implemented cases to successful case closure, by Investigate and resolve issues relating to Case Closure, Supply Service Complete (SSC), unresolved Supply Discrepancy Reports (SDRs), Shipping and Billing

Support discussions between Acquisition Technology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) and the program offices in identifying SSC cases that can be reduced to the highest financial value twice a year. Case Reconciliation Review (CRR) and follow up in another meeting. This is to be tracked throughout the year

Support discussion between ATLA and the SDR office in identifying unresolved SDR issues twice a year (CRR and follow up in another meeting – tracked throughout the year)

Work with ATLA on Shipping and Billing issues and ensuring the correct organization or taking proper actions. Involvement will be to foster communication and proper action; however, the action will need to still be taken by program office

Support Case Closure and SSC issues and questions that are raised by ATLA at monthly meetings

Additional duties as Needed and part of the CPD’s Team:

Assist CPDs and BPC leads in the Case development process, from receipt of Letter of Request (LOR) to issuance of an Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), Pricing and Availability (P&A) or Lease Agreement. This includes both entering individual requests in the system and tracking their progress against target metrics at both individual and aggregate levels, and coordinating with case managers at Case Administering Offices (CAOs) on their completion

Develop and provide insight for CPDs and regional divisions on case execution performance at the portfolio-level (Country and Region) and case closure targets for completed cases

Support the development and maintenance of analytic products, including country summary papers, engagement sheets, information papers, and briefs

Provide statistics and metrics to support analysis and management of security assistance activities

Provide advice, analysis, counsel, coordination, and prepare technical papers and briefs regarding areas such as meetings and conferences (i.e., Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Security Assistance Management Reviews (SAMRs), Case Management Reviews (CMRs), and Case Reconciliation Reviews (CRRs))

Provide advice and support regarding DoN level reporting requirements and prepare assigned reports (i.e., monthly Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) reports, internal Navy IPO products, annual FMS Forecast Reports, and other related quantitative and qualitative reports

Support Navy IPO customer engagements, presentations and client meetings, as required

Daily interface with the Navy IPO client to support the completion of specific tasks of a project within estimated timeframes and budget constraints

Attend and maintain minutes for FMS enterprise activities and high-level meetings for the CPD

Provide inputs to strategic plans, regional and country summaries, command briefs, process desk guides and other handbooks, metrics reporting, and other internal and external communications documents

Qualification

DoD Financial SystemsForeign Military Sales (FMS)Navy ERPPortfolio ManagementProject ManagementCross-Cultural UnderstandingJapanese LanguageCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's degree required

Experience with DoD Financial and Contract Management Systems, including DIFS, MOCAS and WAWF

Experience with Navy Financial and Contract Management Systems, including Navy ERP

Experience with the nuances of Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Case Execution and Closure Processes

Excellent communication skills to include Professional communication requesting inputs from dotted-line entities and following up on them

Ability to learn and apply cross-cultural understanding when present and participating in engagements with other countries

Comfort working across different IT systems to move a product through different parts of a complex process, and connecting the dots across them to track progress of single product

Skill in crafting presentations to senior government decision makers

Ability to interact with other cultures; Experience interacting with Japanese culture and with Japanese language

Willingness to be on-site at Washington Navy Yard (WNY) 2 to 3 days per week, and travel to other government offices, including DSCA, OSD and echelon 2 and 3 activities; Occasional travel to supported foreign countries

Portfolio Management Skills

Project Management Skills

Preferred

Preferred if also experienced with MISIL and Information Warehouse

Company

George Consulting, LTD

Established in 2003, George Consulting is a small business successfully supporting Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customers.

Founded in 2003