Junior Finance Program Analyst

Tria Federal is seeking a Junior Finance Program Analyst that has Veterans Health Administration experience. This individual will assist with the annual financial statement audit, audit remediation or audit readiness efforts by creating, documenting, measuring, enhancing, and improving financial management and accounting operations to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policy.

Responsibilities:

• Perform a gap analysis of the As-Is financial processes to the future state using project tools and document the gaps and risks identified.
• Identify processes that are inefficient, non-compliant with financial policy/guidance, and not auditable and document recommendations for process improvement.
• Create risk assessments to identify and prioritize financial risks.  Recommend and implement risk mitigation strategies.
• Review key accounting standards to ensure processes and controls are compliant with policy.  Familiarity with accounting standards such as the Treasury’s Financial Manual (TFM), The United States Standardized General Ledger (USSGL) standard, the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) standards, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Yellow and Green Books.
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) within all functional areas of finance (budget formulation, budget execution, financial operations, financial reporting).
• Support the development financial internal controls (IC) to support process improvement and audit readiness assessments.
• Manage and analyze large sets of financial data to produce financial reports, analytics, and trends. Report to the client on key financial trends and impacts to operations.
• Support the development of financial quality assurance (QA) measures and oversight reporting on accounting operations.
• Facilitate large client engagements to generate standard processes and gain concurrence on process improvement recommendations, financial analytics/metric results, and corrective actions.
• Experience facilitating in-person and remote workgroup meetings with successful mediation practices.
• Ability to communicate with the client on work products including corrective action recommendations, financial reporting trends, analytic results and impacts to operations etc.
• Lead program/project management responsibilities following Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) principles and standards.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, ideally in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
• Experience with accounting, budgeting, financial process standardization, process improvement, financial statement reporting, and financial management consulting – Government financial management experience preferred
• Experience with Department of Veteran Affairs, specifically Veteran Health Administration (VHA) finance operations, systems, processes, and data.
• Expert knowledge of audit remediation or audit readiness efforts including creating, documenting, measuring, enhancing, and improving financial management and accounting operations to ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policy.
• Ability to communicate with the client on work products including corrective action recommendations, financial reporting trends, analytic results and impacts to operations etc.
• Understanding of large scale change management processes/programs in federal agencies, specifically financial system implementations.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present information to both technical and non-­technical audiences
• Great attention to detail with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Self-directed and eager to tackle new projects and generate innovative ideas
• Willingness to learn and grow with the organization
• 3-5 years of transferable experience 

Professional Certification(s): CGFM, CDFM or CPA

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field (Required)