IT Budget – Financial Governance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist in the daily financial operations, data integration, and governance enforcement for the OCIO budget.

• Ensure adherence to data compliance with newly implemented financial structures and validation protocols.

• Monitor allocations and reconcile key ledger data.

• Support the Front Office spending plan.

• Serve as the primary resource for program offices in executing their validation routines.

• Extract, cleanse, and manually or semi-automatically process raw data exports from core enterprise financial systems.

• Perform daily transaction logging, ledger balance verification, and tracking for the Front Office spending plan.

• Oversee and facilitate the upcoming division validation procedure.

• Monitor division compliance with established reporting schedules.

• Analyze contract Periods of Performance (POPs), process purchase requisitions, and identify execution delays.

• Populate, update, and ensure data integrity for executive Quad Charts, pivot tables, and visual tracking dashboards.

• Recognize and document system inefficiencies and potential opportunities for automation tools.

• Utilize Generative AI platforms for variance explanations and notification templates.

• Conduct regular variance analysis at the individual project level to identify spending trends early in the fiscal year.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional experience.

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in financial analysis, budgeting, or a data-centric role.

• Advanced skills in either Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets (e.g., complex lookups, nested logic, pivot tables, data cleansing).

• Experience in manually exporting, cleansing, and validating large, unformatted raw datasets from enterprise databases or core financial systems.

• Direct experience in tracking multi-phased project timelines, contract periods of performance (POPs), or multi-year project allocations.

• Familiarity with incorporating artificial intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) into everyday workflows (e.g., using Gemini or Microsoft Copilot for drafting variance narratives or formatting data).

• Knowledge of the federal budget lifecycle, financial execution phases, or public sector spending planning.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to coordinate across diverse teams to gather data or enforce submission deadlines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Virtual health consultations.

• Commuter benefits.

• Pet insurance.

• Discounts on entertainment.

• Annual performance evaluations.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Opportunities for internal career advancement.

• Generous 401(k) matching.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Financial wellness resources.

• Annual awards.

• Recognition of service anniversaries.

• Referral bonuses.

• Peer-to-peer recognition.