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ARPA-H Financial Analyst - Advanced Budget Execution

Job Description

Opportunity: ARPA-H Financial Analyst Budget Execution- Advanced for the Comprehensive Omics for Medical Progress COMP.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

Employment Type: Full-time, W2 employment; Exempt, salaried; Eligible for paid benefits

Corporate Overview

SD Solutions, LLC is a fast-growing professional services company, providing Cybersecurity, Strategy & Governance, IT Modernization, Management Consulting, and Professional Services solutions to large and small clients in the federal government sector. Our broad spectrum of services also includes digital & legacy transition, decommissioning, communications, event planning & logistics, and operations. It is our mission to deliver enduring results to our clients using strong business acumen, technical solutions, and management services. Our core values include quality, timeliness, integrity, trusted relationships, and corporate citizenship.

Opportunity Overview

SD Solutions is seeking a capable and experienced Financial Analyst for Budget Execution who will provide support in budget planning and execution to assist with strategy implementation. This role will participate in Spend Plan creation, reviewing the organization's budget and approving spending requests, and tracking and reconciliation of commitments/obligations/expenditures. This role will support an ARPA-H Program Manager for cutting-edge research projects.

"The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health ARPA-H is a new agency within the Department of Health and Human Services HHS. It is a research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs to provide health solutions for all. ARPA-H accelerates better health outcomes for everyone by supporting the development of high-impact solutions to society's most challenging health problems. These opportunities will advance high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. With a scope spanning the molecular to the societal, these programs have the potential to radically improve everyone's health." Responsibilities Include

• Assist Program Managers PMs with the development and execution of their program budgets, including forecasting, tracking, and analyzing expenditures.
• Prepare and manage financial documents such as OTAs, grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
• Track and manage program milestones and deliverables, ensuring compliance with funding agreements.
• Monitor and report on program performance metrics, providing insights to PMs and leadership.
• Manage program contracts and awards, coordinating with contracting officers and legal counsel.
• Be responsible for inputting and maintaining profit and loss information, operating plans, budget planning documents, and vacancies into the federal finance system.
• Review budget with government staff in meetings.
• Systematically integrate business, cost estimating and financial management processes aiding to ensure the efficient stewardship of public funds.
• Interpret and assess the impact of updates to budget requests.
• Develop database reports from the system of record for project status on budget allocation and commitment status.
• Provide financial data reporting to division chief and variance reporting to all project sponsors.
• Support the formation of strategic financial plans, prepare cost estimates, and correlates financing requirements into executable budgets.
• Develop budget variance analyses and projections that support budget execution and formulation with a focus on budget status, variance, and budget projections.
• 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 assists in the preparation of milestone status reports and presentations for colleagues, subordinates, management, and end user representatives.
• Serve as a mentor and resource for junior contractor budget analysts and assist with their development.

Requirements Overview

• in Accounting, Finance, or Business-related field.
• 15 years of experience in a federal government financial management role; preferably in an R&D environment.
• Prefer at least 1 year experience supporting DARPA or related Federal "ARPA" agencies IARPA, ARPA-E, ARPA-H, HSARPA.
• Alternate preferable experience at NIH, CDC, FDA, Public Health Service, NSF, USDA, State Health Department, or Local Health Department.
• Strong understanding of Federal financial regulations and accounting principles.
• Experience working with OTAs, grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements.
• Experience with financial modeling tools.

Employment Type

• Full-time, W2 employment
• Exempt, salaried
• Eligible for paid benefits

Clearance, Citizenship, and Work Location

• Clearance requirement: Active or able to obtain Public Trust.
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency is required per contract.
• Remote / Hybrid.

Questions to include as part of posting

• Do you have experience supporting complex R&D projects of a research and development nature?
• Do you have experience, background, and knowledge of one or more ARPA Programs? How many years if applicable?
• Do you have two years or more experience working with ARPA Program Managers?

SD Solutions Culture

We are a fast-growing company who puts people first. Our focus is on building the right team to provide exceptional services to our customers and to grow with our organization. We offer very competitive compensation and a very attractive benefits package. We believe in corporate citizenship and provide several levels of support to students, schools, teachers, and other organizations in our local community. If you are looking for a new opportunity to make a difference and build your career in a positive way, please join us. We're waiting for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

SD Solutions, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not unlawfully discriminate against employees or applicants for employment based on an individual's race, color, religion, creed, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law. This policy applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, placement, compensation, promotion, discipline, and termination.

Whenever possible, SD Solutions makes reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by law.

Candidate Referral Fee Program

SD Solutions wants to reward you for helping us identify qualified, talented professionals to join our team. Send us your friends and professional connections and we'll reward you with a cash bonus!

To submit a qualified referral, please visit our website. You'll need to send the candidate's contact information and/or resume to SD Solutions and include "Candidate Referral" in the subject line. Your referral must be an active candidate interested in new opportunities. You must include the candidate's full name and contact information i.e., email address and phone number.

Please visit Careers - SD Solutions, LLC sdsolutionsllc.com for more details of the Candidate Referral Fee Program.