Tecolote Research, Inc.

Senior Financial Management Analyst - USSF SWAC (TS/SCI)

Tecolote Research, Inc.$120K — $140K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 10 years of financial management experience in DoW/DoD or Intelligence Community, with preference for DAF experience
  • Proven skills in developing obligation/expenditure plans and fiscal year-end closeouts
  • Strong problem-solving abilities to identify and mitigate financial inefficiencies
  • Direct operational experience with DAF/DoW financial tools such as DEAMS and CCaR
  • Advanced Excel skills for data manipulation, including complex formulas and pivot tables
  • Ability to communicate complex fiscal policies and technical data effectively to senior leaders
  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required, with willingness to work onsite in a Colorado Springs SCIF

Responsibilities

  • Execute data collection and validation for financial execution across SWAC decision-support tools
  • Perform daily data entry and forecasting for classified funding streams related to space warfighting initiatives
  • Prepare and transmit complex funding documents and facilitate fund transfers through financial systems
  • Conduct financial research, analyze policies, and create executive-level documentation and presentations
  • Manage program control functions and analyze program spending and contractor requirements

Benefits

  • Work in a high-security environment requiring active TS/SCI clearance
  • Opportunity to engage in complex financial management for space warfighting
  • Collaborate with senior military leadership
  • Hands-on involvement in strategic financial decision-making
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • System Navigation & Reporting: Execute the direct collection, validation, and recurring update of raw financial execution data across SWAC decision-support tools to maintain absolute data integrity. Run and modify custom database queries and complex Excel/analytical models on demand to track and forecast spending at the program, project, and component levels-translating system outputs into real-time, defensible leadership tools. Customize metrics to support a wide spectrum of options and scenarios.
  • Active Portfolio Management: Perform the daily data entry, tracking, and forecasting of classified, multi-source funding streams across complex, multi-year space warfighting initiatives. Build and maintain resource models, while directly developing and running the program office's requirement validation and prioritization processes to translate operational space warfighting requirements into defensible, funded portfolios.
  • Document Generation & Transmission: Prepare, coordinate, and transmit complex funding documents (e.g., MIPRs, Interagency Agreements) across multiple appropriations and funding streams. Route and track these packages directly through official enterprise financial systems (such as DEAMS), coordinating with external stakeholders to execute seamless, compliant fund transfers to numerous partner organizations.
  • Strategic Advisory & Executive Documentation: Conduct rigorous financial research, analyze policy regulations, and draft senior-level memos, budget execution reviews, and position papers on complex technical topics. Conceptualize, design, and build executive briefing charts and supporting documentation, translating raw system-generated data into clear actionable visual narrative for SWAC, USSF, and DoW senior leadership.
  • Program Control & Contract Monitoring: Execute Program Control functions by conducting detailed analyses of program spending, contractor burn rates, and component requirements. Build, update, and maintain custom tracking spreadsheets and reporting tools, utilizing raw financial database queries to monitor major contracts and provide data-driven recommendations for fiscal-oriented decisions.


Skills Required

  • Strategic & Tactical FM Experience:
    • Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in Department of War (DoW/DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC) financial management, with a strong preference for direct DAF (Air Force/Space Force) program office or headquarters experience
    • Proven ability to personally build and execute obligation/expenditure plans and fiscal year-end closeouts
    • Strong capability to both identify and resolve financial process and/or framework inefficiencies and issues
  • Applied System Proficiency:
    • Direct, recent operational experience navigating and executing transactions within DAF/DoW enterprise tools such as DEAMS, CCaR, DAI, SAFES, DTS, and WAWF
    • Advanced Excel capabilities (lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas) to manipulate raw database outputs and develop custom toolsets supporting organizational decision points and processes
  • Executive Communication & Autonomy:
    • Demonstrated ability to operate as a self-directed analyst who can research complex fiscal policies independently and translate technical data into polished briefing products for senior military leaders
  • Security, Clearance & Environment:
    • Active Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance required on day one
    • Ability to obtain and maintain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph
    • Must be willing to work daily, on-site in a Colorado Springs SCIF
  • Professional Credentials:
    • Bachelor's degree required
    • DoD FM Certification (DFMCP) Level II or III (or equivalent test-based credentials like CDFM/CGFM) highly preferred
  • U.S. Citizenship required
  • Open until filled


Salary Range: $120,000 - $140,000/Year, DOE

Education

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in math, engineering, or the sciences.

About Tecolote Research, Inc.

Tecolote Research, Inc. is a private defense contractor that provides engineering and analysis services to the United States Department of Defense and other government agencies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. Tecolote Research specializes in cost estimating, financial management, and program management services. The company has worked on a variety of defense projects, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the B-2 Spirit bomber, and the Trident missile system.
Learn more about Tecolote Research, Inc.
Size
1,200 employees
Industry
Net Income
$10 million
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+14%
Revenue
$150 million

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