Financial Manager Accounting Services

Savantage Solutions is seeking a Financial Manager to join our Finance and Accounting Division to support a government agency in a wide range of financial, budget, resource, and program management activities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Financial Manager supports a higher-level position to perform the following task areas:

• Perform research and analysis using analytical tools to prepare monthly Foreign Military Sales (FMS) reconciliation of FMS cases for DTRA; and determine cause for any discrepancy.
• Record obligations (e.g., contract awards, Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs)/Interagency Agreements (IAAs), and Miscellaneous Obligation Reimbursement Documents (MORDs) in the accounting system.
• Process miscellaneous pay invoices in the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI). Coordinate with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), and the Treasury Bureau of Fiscal Service, as necessary, to ensure that payments are made on a timely basis.
• Maintain contract pay files and ensure payment packages are complete before providing packages to DFAS for payment. These steps include identifying invoices as complete and accurate; identifying appropriate funding; identifying appropriate paying station; transmission to paying station; adjusting available balances in tally sheets; and verification of payment in the entitlement system after payment is made.
• Analyze invoices, identify discrepancies, and, if necessary, return invoices and vouchers that are improper for payment.
• Perform contract reconciliation activities. Identify problem payments and coordinate corrections to the entitlement systems based on errors detected in reconciliation. Validate that corrective actions have accurately updated accounting and entitlement system records.
• Perform reconciliation of recorded obligations to contracts prepared in the contract writing system.
• Assist with the entry of customer orders (CO) into the DAI and in reconciling each CO at the end of the accounting period. Identify underlying errors and trends and coordinate with DFAS to make the corrections as necessary.
• Provide problem disbursement support, known as Unmatched Disbursements (UMD) to identify underlying causes that prevent disbursement transactions recorded in Defense Cash Accountability System (DCAS) from posting to the DTRA’s Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) accounting records. This includes identifying the types of errors, coordinating the actions required to correct the errors, and then conducting a quality review to ensure the corrections are accurate. 
• Assist with resolving Intra-Governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) payment errors and coordinate the resolution with DFAS and the customer.
• Provide support for identifying capital assets, classifying the assets for entry into DAI, coordinating entry into both the Defense Property Accountability System (DPAS) and DAI, and verifying end-of-accounting period reports are accurate and complete.
• Perform detailed analysis of aged unliquidated obligation, accounts payable, and accounts receivable balances to develop packages to clear these outstanding balances.
• Provide finance and accounting data call information to internal DTRA customers, independent auditors, and external customers (e.g., DFAS, OSD, OMB, DoD Inspector General (DoD IG).
• Support DTRA’s financial audit sustainment program including obtaining requested documentation during testing activities.
• Draft standard operating procedures, support the implementation of changes/new controls to address corrective action plans, and/or adjust to revised guidance for Government approval.
• Perform other financial management, accounting, and support tasks as required to support the Finance and Accounting Division, Accounting Services Branch (DTRA-SI-FMKA).

Knowledge, Skill, and Abilities:

 The candidate must have:

• Secret Clearance
• Accounting experience desired
• DoD experience desired
• DAI Experience desired
• Minimum 5 years of experience
• Strong MS Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Formulas, Data Analysis and Lookup)

 Education and Certifications: Minimum Bachelor’s Degree