Financial Accounting Analyst

SMX is seeking a Financial/Accounting Analyst that will support SOCPAC's Comptroller with Financial and Accounting Programs tp join our growing team in Honolulu, Hawaii. As an accounting financial Analyst you will provide accounting and financial management support, combined with DOD system knowledge, draft responses to financial action items and draft briefs for the Comptroller's review.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct accounting input and review of business processes by inputting purchase requests to create funding documents for processing, submitting funding documents to accepting agency for acceptance and record obligation upon receipt of appropriate acceptance document or contract, review commitments, unobligated and obligated, and unliquidated transactions, documenting and recommending monthly business process improvement areas and resolution strategies for financial practices
• Review and submit analysis of the command's Dormant Account Review Quarterly (DARQ) submission in accordance with the timelines and applicable USSOCOM/USPACOM guidance and the DoD Financial Management Regulations (FMR) Volume 3, Chapter 8
• Review and Input TAR validation comments
• Research post execution DARQ information to determine accounting practices not in accordance with the
• Department of Defense Financial Management Regulation (FMR) and report the findings to the accounting
• department lead
• Compile summary reports of all records reviewed and coordinate with responsible SOCPAC technical personnel to obtain and group the documentation for de-obligation of funding for dormant contract line items
• Document that a review and reconciliation was performed so the Accounting/Budget team can verify funds are available based on accounting and finance systems reconciliation
• Work with billing activity and payment office to determine the status of the transaction when the dormant transaction is based on the receipt of goods or services, and it appears that an outlay (liquidation) transaction should have been received but is not recorded The contractor shall document and report any communication with billing activities to the accounting department lead
• Identify and verify that posted Accounts Payable transactions conform to the management requirements for proper financial management oversight as prescribed in Volume 4, Chapter 9 of the DOD FMR
• Reconcile obligations by identifying the de-obligation or return of expiring, expired or excess funds
• Obtain, maintain, and file all required documentation within the SOCPAC document repository to support de-obligations, adjustments or corrections identified during previous reviews and to ensure files are audit ready
• Create manual DD250s for contract payments where the receipt and acceptance documentation are not available in WAWF for United States Government representative signature and processing
• Identify and document all abnormal conditions that exist within SOCPAC appropriations using existing administrative, financial, and logistical systems
• Identify, trouble shoot, resolve, and document any discrepancies that exist after analyzing the financial reports from the legacy systems, to validate and address inquiries from leadership, internally and externally to the command
• Conduct financial analysis and financial risk analysis to identify and evaluate financial risks and recommend management techniques to mitigate risk exposure
• Attend financially related, off-sites, working groups, audit teams as scheduled and will take meeting minutes and submit to the designated COR
• Provide written inputs to cost performance risk assessments in support of the SOCPAC mission
• Provide weekly updates to Command and staff meeting slides and monthly financial status reports to the Comptroller to support briefing the SOCPAC Commander
• Retrieve Status of Funds (SOF) Reports from the accounting systems to reconcile accounting logs and submit written monthly financial status report to the government lead
• Retrieve Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reports via the accounting system analyze the data output activity and verification to prepare and process the recouping of unobligated and
• unliquidated funds
• Track, verify, and reconcile that the funding de-commitments and de-obligations have posted to the retrieve travel reports from the accounting system to reconcile unliquidated travel vouchers monthly, analyze the data output, coordinate with the Lead Defense Travel Administrator (LDTA) and Government traveler for verification to prepare and process the recouping of unliquidated funds
• Draft responses to financial action items and draft weekly, monthly, and quarterly briefs for Comptroller's review

Required Skills

• Required clearance: Secret
• Familiar with Department of Defense (Department of the Navy is preferred) accounting and financial management
• Possess basic knowledge management skills
• CONUS and OCONUS travel may be required

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/Business Administration
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Department of Defense (Department oof the Navy is preferred) accounting and financial management
• Combined experience must include working knowledge of at least 7 of the following systems:
  • Management Analytical Retrieval Tools (SMARTS), Wide Area Workflow
  • (WAWF)
  • Defense Travel System (DTS)
  • Electronic Document Access (EDA)
  • ADVANA, SYNCADA, One Touch, One Pay, DAI, DCAS DCBS, CHOOSE and CFMS

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