Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kundlas Consulting Group LLC is a professional consulting firm specializing in construction inspection, compliance, and infrastructure-related services. The company is seeking a Junior Financial Analyst to support federal financial management, budget execution, accounting operations, reconciliations, reporting, transaction processing, and financial data analysis while maintaining audit-ready documentation.
Responsibilities
- Examine financial documents to verify proper accounting classification, authorization, funding citations, and supporting documentation
- Enter, process, validate, and maintain financial transactions within applicable financial-management systems
- Support the use of FBMS or comparable integrated federal financial systems used for accounting, budget execution, acquisition, financial assistance, and enterprise reporting
- Perform routine account reconciliations and compare financial transactions across source documentation and financial-system reports
- Assist with reconciliation between general ledger and subsidiary account balances and research differences requiring correction or additional review
- Monitor commitments, obligations, expenditures, disbursements, available balances, and status of funds
- Compile and summarize budget estimates, historical spending information, financial transactions, and other quantitative financial data
- Prepare routine financial-management reports, budget-execution reports, account analyses, and financial-status reports
- Support monthly, quarterly, year-end, and other recurring financial-reporting requirements
- Analyze financial and statistical data to identify errors, unusual transactions, discrepancies, missing documentation, and emerging spending trends
- Research financial transactions and assist with resolving accounting and budgetary discrepancies
- Support authorized adjustments, corrections, journal entries, and other financial actions
- Assist with trial balances, account reviews, invoice tracking, funding reconciliation, and financial closeout activities
- Maintain supporting documentation that promotes data integrity, transparency, accountability, auditability, and proper stewardship of federal funds
- Support responses to financial data calls, management reviews, audits, and internal-control assessments
- Apply strong quantitative analysis, attention to detail, reasoning, problem solving, written communication, and technical competence when working with financial data
- Coordinate with internal teams, program offices, accounting staff, budget personnel, and government stakeholders to support accurate and timely financial-management activities
- Maintain organized electronic records, financial trackers, supporting documentation, reports, and reconciliation files
- Assist with identifying process improvements that strengthen reporting accuracy, financial controls, documentation quality, and data reliability
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, or a related field preferred; relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree
- Entry-level to two years of experience supporting financial analysis, accounting, budget execution, financial reporting, grants, procurement, or administrative financial operations
- Basic understanding of financial transactions, accounting classifications, funding documentation, account reconciliation, invoice tracking, and budget execution
- Ability to review financial documents for proper classification, authorization, funding citations, accuracy, and supporting documentation
- Experience entering, validating, maintaining, or reviewing data within financial-management systems or comparable business platforms
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify errors, discrepancies, missing documentation, and unusual transactions
- Ability to prepare routine reports, account summaries, status updates, and financial documentation
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams
- U.S. citizenship may be required depending on client or contract requirements
- Ability to pass background checks, suitability requirements, or security clearance requirements, as required by the client or contract
- Prior experience supporting federal financial management, accounting, budget execution, acquisition support, grants management, or program financial operations
- Familiarity with FBMS or comparable integrated federal financial systems used for accounting, budget execution, acquisition, financial assistance, and enterprise reporting
- Experience monitoring commitments, obligations, expenditures, disbursements, available balances, and status of funds
- Experience supporting general ledger reconciliations, subsidiary account reviews, trial balances, invoice tracking, journal entries, corrections, and closeout activities
- Experience preparing financial-management reports, budget-execution reports, account analyses, financial-status reports, and recurring monthly, quarterly, or year-end reporting
- Familiarity with federal financial documentation standards, internal controls, audit readiness, data integrity, and stewardship of federal funds
- Experience supporting financial data calls, management reviews, audits, or internal-control assessments
- Active or previously held security clearance preferred
- Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance, if required
- Experience supporting Department of the Interior, FEMA, USACE, DHS, or other federal agency financial-management activities is a plus
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, FBMS, or comparable federal financial-management systems is preferred
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