Senior Budget and Financial Management Analyst

Harkcon, Inc. is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business that helps federal organizations improve workforce performance, strengthen programs, modernize processes, and manage complex mission-support activities. We value sound judgment, clear communication, accountability, and practical solutions that help customers accomplish their missions.

We are seeking a Senior Analyst to support budget execution, financial analysis, resource tracking, internal controls, and management reporting for a federal organization. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical skills with careful transaction review, clear documentation, and responsive support to program and financial leaders.

Location: This position is primarily at federal customer facilities in Norfolk, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Remote work or telework is subject to government approval and is not guaranteed.

*** This position is contingent upon award of a contract to Harkcon***

Key Responsibilities

• Track funding, commitments, obligations, expenditures, balances, and variances across programs, projects, organizations, or funding sources.
• Reconcile financial records among source systems, spreadsheets, reports, and supporting documentation; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Support budget formulation and execution activities, spend plans, forecasts, data calls, unfunded-requirement submissions, and year-end closeout.
• Review purchase requests, purchase-card documentation, invoices, travel or training costs, and other transactions for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Develop recurring financial reports, dashboards, trackers, reconciliations, and briefing materials for program managers and senior leaders.
• Analyze spending patterns, burn rates, aging obligations, available balances, and execution risks; identify issues requiring management attention.
• Maintain audit-ready files and support internal reviews, data-quality checks, and responses to financial-management inquiries.
• Document financial procedures, desk guides, workflows, internal controls, and recommended process improvements.
• Coordinate with budget, acquisition, contracting, logistics, training, and program-management personnel.
• Research open obligations and prepare monthly findings and supporting documentation for accounting review.
• Verify purchase-card transactions against financial ledgers and reconcile discrepancies across official financial records.
• Prepare weekly balance reports and recurring statistical and financial reports supporting education and professional-development programs.

Required Qualifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university. Preferred fields include Business Administration, Finance, Education, Public Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least three years of experience in project support, financial management, analysis, or administrative functions related to education or training programs and/or financial management.
• Experience reconciling financial data and explaining differences among planned, committed, obligated, and expended amounts.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint..
• Ability to interpret financial policies, transaction records, and supporting documentation and apply consistent quality-control procedures.
• Strong analytical writing, organization, and customer-service skills.
• Ability to manage recurring deadlines and time-sensitive requests without sacrificing accuracy.
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements and remain eligible to obtain a Secret security clearance. An active clearance is not currently required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, and data visualization.
• Federal financial-management or budget-execution experience.
• Experience supporting training, workforce-development, or mission-support programs.
• Experience with Power BI, SharePoint, enterprise financial systems, or purchase-card management.
• Knowledge of federal appropriations, fiscal-year execution, acquisition support, internal controls, and audit readiness.
• Experience developing standard operating procedures or improving financial workflows.
• Experience with data cleansing, metrics development, and performance tracking.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position which may support a distributed team through a combination of remote work and activities at federal customer locations. The employee must be able to participate in virtual and in-person meetings, work during normal customer business hours, travel periodically, and use customer-approved collaboration and information systems. Specific location, travel, and access requirements will be confirmed before placement.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Harkcon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.