Requisition Number: 29760
Required Travel: 0 - 10%
Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt
Anticipated Salary Range: $136,045.00 - $195,000.00
Security Clearance: TS/SCI
Level of Experience: Management HI
This opportunity resides with
All-Domain Operations (ADO), a business group within HII's Mission Technologies division. All-Domain Operations comprises multi-domain operations, platforms and logistics, and intelligence operations.
SummaryThe Senior Business and Financial Operations Specialist provides financial management, programming and budget execution support to the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Competitive Activities (SAF/OC), supporting the CDM directorate and its Foreign Materiel Program Support Office (FMPSO).
This position allows for a hybrid work schedule with expectations of working in the office at our Fort Washington, MD location.
What You Will Do- Provide analytic support across the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) process, covering all four phases rather than execution alone.
- Support Program Element Monitors (PEMs) in building, defending and adjusting program element positions through the POM cycle.
- Prepare and maintain program and budget documentation, including exhibits, spend plans, and reclama and issue-paper inputs.
- Track funds by appropriation and by organization, reconciling MIPR-funded lines where most program funding arrives from external mission partners rather than SAF PALM or POM money.
- Monitor obligation and expenditure rates against phasing plans, identify execution shortfalls and excesses early, and recommend realignments.
- Build the monthly financial execution picture the office reports upward, at a fidelity that holds ceiling, funded, executed, estimate to complete and estimate at completion down to the individual MIPR.
- Prepare read-ahead material and financial summaries for senior Department of War leadership and for program and budget reviews.
- Coordinate with contracting, program management and security staff across the SAF/OC organizations (OCB, OCXA, CDMR and CPO) on funding actions and their timing.
- Respond to data calls from Air Force, Department of War and Congressional staff within the timelines those calls carry.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring financial reporting, working with the SAF/OC System Automation Team.
What We Are Looking For- 8 years relevant progressive experience with Bachelors in related field; 6 years relevant progressive experience with Masters in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 12 years relevant progressive experience.
- Direct experience with the PPBE process, including the planning and programming phases, not budget execution alone.
- Experience preparing or defending program element positions, or supporting Program Element Monitors.
- Working knowledge of appropriation types, color of money rules, and reprogramming and realignment mechanics.
- Experience building financial reporting for a senior staff audience.
- Strong Excel skills, including work with large financial data sets.
- Clearance: Must possess and maintain a TS/SCI clearance.
Bonus Points For...- Experience supporting a Headquarters Air Force or Air Staff two-letter or three-letter organization, particularly SAF/AQ or SAF/OC.
- Familiarity with the Foreign Materiel Program or with other special-access or sensitive-activity funding lines.
- Experience with MIPR-funded work where an organization front-funds and is later reimbursed.
- Experience with Air Force financial systems (for example ABIDES, CRIS, or the Automated Funds Management system) or with GFEBS.
- Power BI or comparable experience turning financial data into recurring leadership reporting.
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The listed salary range for this role is intended as a good faith estimate based on the role's location, expectations, and responsibilities. When extending an offer, HII's Mission Technologies division takes a variety of factors into consideration which include, but are not limited to, the role's function and a candidate's education or training, work experience, and key skills.
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HII is more than a job - it's an opportunity to build a new future. We offer competitive benefits such as best-in-class medical, dental and vision plan choices; wellness resources; employee assistance programs; Savings Plan Options (401(k)); financial planning tools, life insurance; employee discounts; paid holidays and paid time off; tuition reimbursement; as well as early childhood and post-secondary education scholarships. Bonus/other non-recurrent compensation is occasionally offered for qualified positions, and if applicable to this role will be addressed by the recruiter at the screening phase of application.
