Best Practice Associates, LLC DBA Federal Advisory Partners (F|A|P) ofTria Federal (Tria) is seeking a talentedSenior FinancialConsultant!

We are looking for action-oriented, highly collaborative individuals with fresh ideas and the desire and ability to engage and inspire others to achieve extraordinary results.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with 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
• 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 StandardsAdvisory 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
• Perform monthly and quarterly financial reporting tasks such as financial statement variance analysis, financial reconciliations, researching of abnormal balances, and creation/review of financial statements
• 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
• Develop training materials and educational guides to train team members on processes and procedures and foundation operational management techniques

• Experience supervising team members including reviewing work products to ensure completeness and accuracy
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and set priorities for team members
• 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

Professional Certifications:

Certified as a Certified Government Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Education:

Bachelor's Degree;ideally in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field

Clearance:

Public Trust

Years of Professional Experience:

10 years of experiencewith accounting, budgeting, financial process standardization, process improvement, financial statement reporting, and financial management consulting - Government financial management experience preferred