Business Analyst (Non-IT) 4

Job Title : Business Analyst (Non-IT) 4
Location: Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Duration: 6 months

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- The Budget Analyst will support Marine R&E budget management by combining financial analysis, accounting reconciliation, data investigation, and structured problem solving. This individual will work directly with the Marine Product Team, Marine Data Science team, and Business Resources teams across multiple organizations that provide services or R&D support to Marine. The successful candidate will be comfortable taking an unexplained number in a financial report and following the data until the underlying transaction, organizational source, accounting treatment, and root cause are understood.

Reason/motivation for request:
- Addition

Typical task breakdown:
- Goals for the position have been defined:
- Identify and resolve budget grief, tracing unexplained charges to the appropriate program, job, cost center, and organization.
- Reconcile affordability, forecasts, actuals, and RBM reporting, including investigation of missing or delayed invoices and classification issues.
- Perform root-cause analysis of recurring data-quality problems and work with business resources organizations to implement corrections.
- Define finance business rules and data-quality controls for implementation with the Data Science team. - Improve program-level traceability, including situations where multiple or changing PIDs/jobs need to remain associated with the correct Marine program.
- Establish a sustainable process for identifying, assigning, resolving, and preventing future budget grief.
- For each goal, background information has been partially collected. The candidate will determine information that still needs to be gathered on requirements, source data, process, and error handling then collaborate with functional leads to meet the goal.
- Alternate between team interaction and data analysis. - Present findings, planned solutions, and timeline expectations to the work director.

Interaction with team: -
In-person collaboration with the Marine data science team and work director.
- Microsoft Teams meetings with Business Resources and other remote team members.

Team Structure -
Individual contributor, works with business resources and data science teams.

Work environment:
- Office

Education & Experience Required:
- Years of experience: 8-10
- Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree in business management, economics, finance, accounting or relevant field required.
- Do you accept internships as job experience: yes
- Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Business Analyst, Accountant

Top 3 Skills
- Demonstrated ability to reconcile large datasets and investigate financial discrepancies.
- Strong written documentation and problem-solving skills.
- Informal project leadership; coordinating delivery across a team on small scale projects

Additional Technical Skills (Required)
- Strong Excel and financial data analysis
- Power BI/data-model familiarity
- Transaction-level root-cause analysis
- Experience performing root-cause analysis rather than simply reporting variances. (Desired)
- Experience developing data-quality or reconciliation controls.

Soft Skills (Required)
- Verbal communication; ability to summarize complex topics into a simple narrative (Desired)
- Ability to work effectively across Finance, Engineering, BR, and Data Science