Senior DoW Financial Systems and Audit Analyst

RM Advisory Services LLC (RMAS), a licensed CPA firm and Federal small-business contractor, is seeking a Senior Dow Financial Systems and Audit Analyst for an anticipated engagement supporting a DoW financial-management operations. The position will support financial-system analysis, data reconciliation, dashboard and reporting activities, data management, audit response, and corrective-action implementation.

The ideal candidate will combine current DoW experience with a strong understanding of DoW/Federal accounting, financial reporting, financial data, internal controls, and audit readiness. Experience supporting Marine Corps or Department of the Navy financial-management organizations is highly desirable.

Required Skills

• Analyze DoW transactions, accounting results, interfaces, and financial reports to identify coding, completeness, accuracy, and data-quality issues.

• Reconcile DoW information to feeder systems, source documentation, general-ledger balances, and other authoritative data.

• Research issues involving accruals, USSGL accounts, fiscal codes, system interfaces, abnormal or overaged transactions, and financial reporting.

• Document source-to-report data flows, business rules, data definitions, transformations, and system dependencies.

• Develop written analyses describing identified conditions, applicable criteria, root causes, financial and system impacts, alternatives, and recommended corrective actions.

• Develop, maintain, and validate financial dashboards, performance measures, standardized reports, and ad hoc analyses.

• Support Beginning Balance, Universe of Transactions, general-ledger reconciliation, variance analysis, DAR-Q, certification, and related reporting activities.

• Develop fiscal-code crosswalks and assess how proposed code, configuration, or system changes may affect related processes and reporting.

• Coordinate and quality-review Provided-by-Client requests, audit evidence, and responses to auditor follow-up questions.

• Use data-analysis tools to profile transaction populations, identify anomalies, validate evidence, and distinguish isolated exceptions from systemic conditions.

• Analyze audit findings and assist process and system owners with developing, monitoring, and validating corrective actions.

• Participate in working groups involving Marine Corps, DON, OSD, DFAS, DLA, auditors, and other financial-management stakeholders.

• Develop procedures, business rules, data definitions, process documentation, and training materials that support consistent and sustainable operations.

Required Experience

• Active Secret security clearance at the time of contract award.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, information systems, business, data analytics, or a related field.

• At least five years of relevant DoD financial-management, financial-systems, accounting, or audit-readiness experience.

• Demonstrated experience working with DAI transactions, data, reporting, interfaces, or business processes.

• Knowledge of DoD financial-management requirements, including the DoD Financial Management Regulation, USSGL, SFIS, and internal-control or audit-readiness requirements.

• Experience performing financial or system reconciliations, root-cause analysis, and data validation.

• Experience preparing clear written analyses, recommendations, procedures, and senior-leadership briefings.

• Ability to work effectively with accountants, system personnel, data professionals, process owners, auditors, and senior Government stakeholders.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.