Job Description:

Background:

The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has multiple sectors responsible for various parts of the audit process. The F-35 Financial Management (FM) team oversees all facets of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process for all F-35 JPO US Military Service Customers, Security Cooperation Partners (SCP) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Customers.

The F-35 JPO FM team performs the analysis, execution, and visualized reporting of the F-35 JPO's life-cycle financial reporting, approximating $1.3T, for all internal program and external program stakeholder engagements. The FM team executes approximately $50B per year in active Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E), Procurement, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), FMS, and foreign partner appropriations through approximately 10,000+ transactions.

Project Objectives for the Financial Management (FM) in the F-35 JPO

• Preparation of financial documents in support of execution, funds tracking, and audit activities such as reconciliation of unobligated and unliquidated funds are top priorities

• Perform robust financial management analytics in a Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) environment that provides for reporting unique to the JPO to standardize United States Air Force (USAF), Department of the Navy (DoN), SCP, and FMS financials for daily/weekly/monthly reporting of financial data.

• Utilize the Comprehensive Cost and Requirements System (CCAR) to give individual program managers traceability and visibility into budget and financial execution status.

• Utilize Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), CCARS, Commander's Resource Integration System (CRIS) and DFAS Transaction Interface Module (DTIM) to record budgetary and accounting information for USAF, FMS and DoN funding.

• Analyze and present financial inputs for decision-makers at multiple levels. The JPO requires trend analysis of reconciled current (active), expired, and canceled appropriations (FMS and SCP equivalent) to support future financial execution and forecasting (spend plan) documentation.

• Utilize contractor-supplied deliverables and DoD systems to create, review, and reconcile financial data to validate Estimates at Complete (EAC) and provide burn-rate analysis recommendations.

• Utilize Department of Defense applications and software to research and reconcile dormant financial documents in support of Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR).

• Utilize budget formulation in accordance with DoD policies and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-11.

• Utilize the Case Management Control System (CMCS), Defense Security Assistance Management System (DSAMS), and Security Cooperation Information Portal (SCIP) to execute, research, and reconcile Foreign Military Sales case lines in support of Security Cooperation Policy and FIAR.

Experience Requirements:

• Comfortable, organized, and able to run daily, weekly, & monthly financial reporting data

• Learn and respect the reporting needs of stakeholders to create individually tailored items

• Competent enough to work with multiple high-level domestic and international stake holders

• Comfortable knowing your reports are going to be internally and externally examined for accuracy and historical data

• You enjoy solving puzzles and finding missing pieces. You realize when information is missing, you're inquisitive enough to work with others to find it, you can read reports and data sheets well and apply what you've found to your work and communicate with stakeholders

Mandatory:

• 7+ years of experience doing the following:

• Managing high-functioning professionals who are responsible for the accurate and timely reporting of financial data and creating visualizations to meet the requests of internal and external stakeholders.

• Drafting, recording, monitoring, analyzing and reconciling funding data

• Finding and analyzing dormant source data to improve and prepare financial documents

• Analyzing financial trends of budget appropriations and creating forecasting documents

• Creating, documenting and reconciling costs estimates, budget alignments, & burn rates

• Writing down processes for others to read and use as standard

• Working with government budget products; reporting to executive and legislative bodies

• Going through large datasets of financial information

Must have some level of experience with the following platforms or groups:

• DFAS Transaction Interface Module (DTIM)

• Comprehensive Cost and Requirement System (CCARS)

• Navy's Enterprise Resource Planning (N-ERP)

• Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE) Apps

• ADVANA

• Commander's Resource Integration System (CRIS)

• Security Cooperation Information Portal (SCIP)

• Case Management Control System (CMCS)

• Defense Security Assistance Management System (DSAMS)

• Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers

• Government Accountability Office (GAO)

• United States Congress

Policies provided by:

• Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)

• Secretary of the Air Force International Affairs (SAF/IA)

• Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation (AFSAC)

• Air Fore Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC)

Certification Requirements: N/A

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science / Bachelor of Art

Work Type:

OnSite – Washington, DC/NCR

Clearance Requirements:

Secret Clearance Required – No Interim Clearances