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Budget Analyst
Grant Thornton
Washington, DC, United States
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Description
Grant Thornton is seeking an Associate to join its Decision Analytics service line and take an active role in engagement execution, project management and key business development activities.
Grant Thornton Public Sector helps executives and managers at all levels of government maximize their performance and efficiency in the face of ever tightening budgets and increased demand for services. We give clients creative, cost-effective solutions that enhance their acquisition, financial, human capital, information technology, data analytics, and performance management. For more information, visit grantthornton.com/publicsector.
At Grant Thornton, our professional staff applies traditional, cutting-edge approaches and methods to a variety of analyses. As part of our team, the Associate will utilize various methodologies and models to execute client projects.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Development of budget analysis for a component of a Federal law enforcement agency.
• The resource will perform analysis in coordination with work streams related to performance and staffing for the agency.
• This analysis will support the alignment of financial data with operational metrics to create cost estimates of agency goals.
• Engage with stakeholders to collect data and inputs and inform development of business rules for the models.
• Develop and then update models with new financial and operational data on a quarterly basis.
• Update and incorporate business rules to enable integration with other modeling tools.
• Validate all cost model outputs to ensure resulting figures tie to externally reported figures.
• Socialize models with mission support program stakeholders to solicit feedback and gain buy-in.
• Respond to associated reporting requests
• Perform ad-hoc data visualization and optimization
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Assist with business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership materials.
Qualifications
• DHS-MBI Clearance required.
• Data collection and analysis required.
• Intermediate to advanced Excel/Tableau required.
• Client interfacing and meeting facilitation required.
• Exposure to cost accounting and/or federal budgeting required.
• Six Sigma Green Belt desired.
• Experience with Business Objects, Data Warehouse prior to Tableau desired
• Federal budget experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited college or university in a related field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain certain job-related certifications if no job-related advanced degrees.
• U.S. citizenship may be required. Ability to work in the United States indefinitely required.
• Travel may be required.
• Ability to work overtime required on occasion.
• Ability to sit in an office environment for long periods of time.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Ability to communicate clearly in writing and verbally.
• Ability to obtain and maintain firm independence and abide by firm ethics requirements.
• Meet or exceed continuing professional education (CPE) requirements.
Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International, one of the six global accounting, tax and business advisory organizations. Grant Thornton’s Public Sector, based in Alexandria, VA, is a global management consulting business with the mission of providing responsive and innovative financial, performance management and systems solutions to governments and international organizations. Visit Grant Thornton’s Public Sector at www.grantthornton.com/publicsector.
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