Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blake Willson Group unites domain experts and technologists to deliver technology-forward financial management solutions supporting the welfare, defense, and security missions of the nation. The company is seeking a Senior Budget Analyst to support budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, rate development, cost-recovery analysis, and financial reporting for a federal client.
Responsibilities
- Support annual budgets, recurring forecasts, and monthly budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual analyses
- Analyze expenditures, revenues, consumption, costs, and financial trends and identify significant variances and underlying drivers
- Support development and maintenance of IT service rates, financial models, cost-recovery analyses, and customer impact analyses
- Gather, validate, reconcile, and analyze financial and operational data from multiple sources
- Maintain Excel-based budget, forecast, rate, and financial-analysis models, including supporting schedules, tables, and reporting tools
- Prepare financial summaries, service-line and portfolio-level reporting, executive presentations, and management briefing materials
- Analyze customer consumption, demand, service mix, and proposed rate changes to calculate financial impacts
- Support process improvements, standard operating procedures, financial templates, and recurring reporting tools
- Maintain documentation of financial assumptions, methodologies, reconciliations, model updates, and analytical results
- Coordinate with senior analysts, finance personnel, project leadership, and business stakeholders to support accurate and timely deliverables
Skills
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and have the ability to obtain a Public Trust Security Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience performing budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, accounting, cost analysis, or related financial analysis
- 2+ years of experience performing financial modeling, budget-to-actual or forecast-to-actual variance analysis, and analyzing financial trends and drivers
- 2+ years of experience using Microsoft Excel to organize, reconcile, and analyze financial data from multiple sources, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and financial calculations
- Experience developing or maintaining Excel-based financial models and recurring financial reports
- Experience with rate development, cost recovery, billing, or customer impact analysis
- Experience reconciling financial, billing, operational, or consumption data from multiple systems
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to financial-data accuracy
- Ability to document financial assumptions, methodologies, and analytical results clearly
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with senior analysts, finance personnel, project leadership, and business stakeholders
Benefits
- This role is 100% remote.
- Major medical benefits, including dental and vision coverage
- 401(k)-contribution plan
- Holiday and personal time off
- Professional development training & certification benefits
- Health & wellness subsidies
- Paid time off for community service
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