Senior Financial Analyst III – Financial Management - San Diego

Senior Financial Analyst III – Financial Management

Summary:

• Job Title: Senior Financial Analyst III

• Openings: 1

• Security Clearance: Secret clearance required

• Work Type: Onsite

• Work Location: Naval Base Coronado, San Diego, CA 92155

• Job Type: Full-time

• Supported Organization: Commander, Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP)

• Primary Focus: Financial management, Navy ERP, reconciliations, metrics, and dashboard reporting

• Benefits: Our client provides full benefits.

BizFirst is assisting our client with recruiting a Senior Financial Analyst III to support the Comptroller for Commander, Naval Surface Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) in San Diego. The analyst will provide senior-level financial management support with a strong focus on Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (Navy ERP), financial reconciliations, data analysis, and metrics and dashboard reporting. The position also supports Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR) and broader audit-readiness activities as part of the overall financial management mission.

Our client is a boutique consulting firm that employs consultants and professionals with specialized skills to support the federal government with strategic execution, financial process enablement, IT systems, and Enterprise Resource Planning software implementation.

What will you do

Lead and strengthen day-to-day financial management support for the CNSP Comptroller. You will use Navy ERP and related financial systems to analyze budget execution, reconcile financial data, resolve discrepancies, and produce reliable recurring and ad-hoc reports. You will also develop metrics, dashboards, and executive-level briefings using Power BI, Advana, Excel, and related tools so leaders can clearly understand financial status, trends, exceptions, and required corrective actions. This role is well suited for an experienced Navy financial analyst who can connect system data to practical financial-management decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Lead Financial Program Analyst with full authority for contractor performance and daily contract operations, including work prioritization and coordination with the CNSP Comptroller.

• Plan, direct, coordinate, and analyze accounting and financial activities to support the effective and efficient use of CNSP resources.

• Support budget development, fund execution, cost tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis, and recommend corrective actions or alternative funding approaches when needed.

• Use Navy ERP to research transactions, analyze financial activity, monitor execution, and produce accurate recurring and ad-hoc financial reports.

• Perform and document trial balance, subsidiary ledger, feeder-system, and transaction-level reconciliations to confirm completeness and accuracy.

• Investigate and help resolve variances, abnormal balances, unmatched transactions, unsupported adjustments, and other financial-data discrepancies.

• Validate and compare financial information across Navy ERP, Defense Travel System (DTS), Wide Area Workflow (WAWF), Advana, Jupiter, Microsoft Access, and Excel.

• Develop and maintain financial metrics, key performance indicators, dashboards, and recurring management reports using Power BI, Advana, Excel, and other approved reporting tools.

• Establish consistent metric definitions, source-data rules, validation procedures, and reporting schedules so dashboards and financial reports remain timely and reliable.

• Analyze trends, exceptions, and emerging financial issues, then translate the findings into clear briefings, recommendations, and action items for financial and program leadership.

• Support FIAR, audit-readiness, and contract-compliance activities by maintaining sound supporting documentation, validating financial data, and helping address identified deficiencies.

• Develop and sustain Navy ERP training strategies and update standard operating procedures, desk guides, reporting instructions, and learning materials.

• Identify practical process improvements across financial and business systems and provide program support through meeting coordination, briefing materials, agenda development, and action tracking.

Requirements:

• Secret clearance required.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business from an accredited U.S. college or university, or equivalent significant Navy financial-management experience.

• Minimum five (5) years of relevant Navy or Department of Defense financial-management experience, including financial analysis, systems-based reporting, and reconciliations.

• Recent experience, within the last two years, serving as a Lead Financial Program Analyst or in a comparable senior financial-analysis role.

• Demonstrated experience planning, directing, coordinating, and analyzing financial activities, including recommending alternative funding approaches.

• Hands-on experience using Navy ERP to research financial activity, analyze budget execution, support reconciliations, and generate recurring and ad-hoc reports.

• Demonstrated experience performing trial balance and feeder-system reconciliations, analyzing variances, and resolving abnormal balances or other financial-data discrepancies.

• Experience developing financial metrics, dashboards, and leadership reporting using Power BI, Advana, Excel, or comparable business-intelligence tools.

• Experience generating financial reports or analysis using DTS, WAWF, Jupiter, Microsoft Access, or other Navy and Department of Defense financial systems.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting a Navy comptroller organization or surface-force financial-management mission.

• Advanced Power BI or Advana experience, including data modeling, dashboard design, data validation, and executive-level visualization.

• Experience developing Navy ERP training, standard operating procedures, desk guides, and repeatable financial-reporting processes.

• Working knowledge of FIAR, audit-readiness, internal-control, and supporting-documentation requirements within a federal financial-management environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing senior leaders and turning detailed financial data into clear recommendations.

Benefits Include:

• Family Health Care (54% cost covered for the entire family)

• Family Dental (54% cost covered for the entire family)

• Family Vision (54% cost covered for the entire family)

• Flexible Spending Account

• Overutilization bonuses for Time and Materials (T&M) contracts

• Lifetime Event Bonuses (e.g., child, marriage)

• Profit-sharing arrangement for any work brought into the company

• Unlimited Leave with Approval

• 401(k): 100% employer match on first 3% invested

• $1,000 annual training budget