Programmatic Financial Expert

2 Days ago • 6-10 Years

About the job

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Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.

Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.

Barbaricum is seeking a Programmatic Financial Expert with Business Automation capabilities to support the Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO) Assessment & Assurance Division aims to establish the strategy, best practices, architectures, and tools to ensure that the DoD has reliable, ethical, and trusted AI-enabled systems.

The SETA support focuses on advancing CDAO’s AI/ML Testing and Evaluation tools to improve the Assessment and Assurance of AI/ML capabilities by providing excellent, proactive, and intrinsically motivated support in the areas of program and project management with focus on budget performance and automation of standardized functions within the AI Assessment & Assurance Division.

Barbaricum has been supporting CDAO for more than 3 years, including current support to the T&E Directorate and Resource and Management Office. This position is a new role on a team that will provide SETA support that focuses on enabling CDAO’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence objectives through subject matter expertise-enabled support.

Responsibilities

Support administration/operations and project management functions for A2/JATIC.
Demonstrate initiative and be a self-starter, able to work in a highly collaborative, virtual, and versatile environment handling an array of duties and responsibilities with particular focus on organization, coordination, process management, and multi-tasking abilities.
Administration/Operations - execution of day-to-day requirements, such as management of schedules, calendars, databases, documents, distribution of information, data input, reporting, and document control. This could also involve complex evaluations of existing procedures, processes, technique, models, and/or systems related to management problems. (2.2.1)
Create, maintain, and organize the division financial information using existing tools (MS Office, Qlik in Advana) or by recommending new tools that are compliant with Impact Level IV and can be deployed on the DoDIN.
Maintain accurate financial information and pursue the execution of requirements for current year funds; actively pursue guidance and direction to responsibly expend available funds as early as possible.
Determine how to trace expenditures to projects and programs; ensure burn down dates are apparent in standardized reports and analysis and other in-depth financial analysis as requested.
Project Management - assist in planning, developing, testing, and documenting projects, to include applying business process improvement practices, modernizing projects, acquisition process/planning, and reengineering old methodologies/principles. Support agency teams in development and management of project milestones, goals, and deliverables. (2.2.4)
Support POM development, gap analysis, issue paper development, CAPE issue team justification briefings and other in-depth financial analysis as requested.
Build strategies and create documentation on current organizational financial processes for potential automation, for formalizing task management, and to share across larger program.
Suggest more efficient ways to run the Division’s finances and interactions with CDAO budget and acquisition teams and troubleshoot malfunctions if they arise.
Understand Division priorities to inform Division leadership of things requiring immediate attention vs those that may solve themselves in a day or two.
Prepare presentations and reports for Leadership approval and collaboration; schedule meetings to solicit feedback.
Coordinate and schedule meetings with all parties to gain resolution to unresolved financial issues with all stakeholders and prepare Leadership with recommended talking points.

Qualifications

An Active Secret clearance is required.
Bachelor’s degree plus 6-10 years experience, or a Master’s degree plus 5 years of experience.
Proactively engage members both inside and outside of your team, demonstrating strong communication skills.
Build comprehensive budget and project management tracking tool; leveraging sum-if, linked tables, pivots and slicers as needed, and patience and attention to detail to ensure keyed in information is accurate to maintain the integrity of the workbook, demonstrating mid to expert level MS Excel knowledge and abilities.
Generate standard weekly and monthly financial slide decks to report the same data points consistently and demonstrate change over time.
Work within agile frameworks, such as Scaled Agile Framework.
Demonstrate initiative in continuing to engage govt SMEs until answer is obtained; be a self-starter in developing novel approaches to execution and tracking.
Work within high technology areas, such as computer science, data science, autonomy, and artificial intelligence and understanding of the requirements to support drafting of performance work statements for government review.
Monitor contract burn down of various performers based on actual invoices; and ability to offer comparison to perceived burn down based on accounting system data.

Additional Information

For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com. We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews. No phone calls please.

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About The Company

Barbaricum

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Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Barbaricum is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small business. At our core, you’ll find people who love to explore and innovate.

Our team has a uniquely complementary skill set. Together we’ve built a hands-on, all-inclusive contracting firm that develops innovative strategies & uses the best of emerging technologies to support our clients’ long-term goals. Our growth has been fueled by repeat business and long-term partnerships with key clients.

We are an ISO 9001: 2015-certified and CMMI Level 3-appraised company that supports a host of government clients with Integrated Communications, Mission Support, Research and Analysis, Cyber Security/Intelligence, and Technology-Enabled Services. Our mission is to transform U.S. Government approaches to problem sets of increasing complexity by delivering innovative solutions, especially in support of National Security missions.

Barbaricum is one of the fastest growing companies in our market. The company is routinely recognized by institutions like Inc. Magazine, GovCon, AMEC, PRSA, and SmartCEO for corporate growth, capabilities, and award-winning client work. Our team is dynamic and agile, providing global support to current missions across five continents. We are also focused on developing and maintaining our vibrant corporate culture, having most recently been named a Best Workplace for 2017 by Inc. Magazine.

We encourage you to explore our site and contact us to learn more about how you can work with Barbaricum.