Position Title: Finance Data & Budget Analyst
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Pay Rate: 46$/hr
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Role Summary
The Finance Data & Budget Analyst will support Marine R&E budget management by combining financial analysis, accounting reconciliation, data investigation, and structured problem solving. This individual will work directly with Travis Petry-Johnson, Mindi Tezza's Data Science team, Marine BR, and BR teams across organizations that provide services or R&D support to Marine. The successful candidate will be comfortable taking an unexplained number in a financial report and following the data until the underlying transaction, organizational source, accounting treatment, and root cause are understood.
Primary Responsibilities
- Investigate unexplained R&E costs and budget grief.
- Reconcile affordability, forecasts, actuals, and RBM reporting.
- Trace financial transactions across job numbers, PIDs, cost centers, item/BMS codes, and organizational boundaries.
- Investigate invoices and other expenses that are missing, delayed, incorrectly classified, or insufficiently attributed.
- Partner with BR teams to correct accounting/allocation issues.
- Validate actuals used in the Marine R&E Power BI reporting solution.
- Support mapping/reference datasets necessary to connect transactions to Marine programs.
- Identify recurring data-quality failures and recommend preventative controls.
- Maintain an auditable issue and resolution log.
- Document recurring processes so that successful resolutions do not remain dependent upon tribal knowledge.
Required Qualifications
- Strong finance, accounting, financial-analysis, or finance-data background.
- Demonstrated ability to reconcile large datasets and investigate financial discrepancies.
- Strong Excel/data-analysis capability.
- Ability to work with transaction-level data and understand relationships between financial dimensions.
- Experience performing root-cause analysis rather than simply reporting variances.
- Ability to work across finance, engineering, analytics, and business organizations.
- Strong written documentation and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured analyses.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Power BI and finance reporting datasets.
- Experience developing data-quality or reconciliation controls.
- Familiarity with R&D budgeting, program/project accounting, cost-center accounting, intercompany charges, or engineering finance.
- Experience with forecasting and forecast-to-actual variance analysis.
- Experience connecting financial transactions to project, program, or job-level master data.
- Familiarity with Caterpillar finance/data environments would be particularly beneficial.
- SQL, Power Query, Python, Alteryx, or comparable data-transformation experience helpful but not mandatory.
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