Program Analyst III (Accounting/Auditing) at Chenega Corporation

Overview

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Program Analyst III (Accounting/Auditing) to provide accounting, internal control, and audit program support services for the Office of Budget and Financial Management (OBFM) at the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). The Program Analyst III will analyze financial management processes, conduct routine and non-routine accounting transactions and processes, improve internal controls, assist with documenting, and strengthen policies and controls, and provide advice and recommendations to the Government.

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Respond to meeting and audit requests and route to the appropriate staff member as necessary.
• Develop and respond to accounting operational tasks, related to accounts receivable or payable, revenue, interest earnings, or journal vouchers.
• Coordinate logistics such as meeting requests, briefing and document distribution prior to scheduled meetings.
• Create and edit both technical and non-technical documents such as technical accounting forms and transactional documents, cycle memos, audit documentation, internal control documentation, memoranda, briefs, and reports.
• Produce a variety of communications from informal email interactions with internal and external clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others.
• Provide audit liaison support to help facilitate the flow of information between OBFM and internal and external auditors. This includes development and maintenance of documentation and drafting responses to potential audit findings for the annual A-123 internal audit and the financial statement audit, which is performed by the Government Accountability Office. Manage, track and deliver audit deliverables for both audits.
• Maintain the Budget and Accounting Officer appraised of any issues or potential issues based on interaction with the auditors and through the review of FHFA audit deliverables/documentation.
• Provide a broad range of financial statement accounting, audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.
• Review and provide recommendations to the Budget and/or Accounting Officer based on OMB Circular A-123, internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) for financial and business process areas and assess the impact of new financial management and other accounting treatment specific guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
• Perform daily accounting transactions in support of FHFA supporting the Agency Accountants and shared service provider such as reconciliations, processing accounting receivable or payable transactions, documenting revenue or interest and other journal vouchers.
• Support and participate in end-to-end financial management walkthroughs of business processes, documenting business processes through appropriate business process flow mapping, reviewing and updating cycle memos, reviewing the testing the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls, and monitoring all deficiencies for OBFM.
• Conduct research to investigate accounting and financial management transactional and accounting issues and work collaboratively with the OBFM, other FHFA staff, or the shared service provider to formulate and recommend solutions based on FASAB, SFFAS, GAO, and/or other accounting policy.
• Support the development, maintenance, and execution of risk mitigation plans, corrective action plans, and broader remediation strategies designed to address financial risks and internal control or audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
• Apply a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques and provide regular routine and ad hoc reports associated with multiple systems and compile the information for further review by OBFM management and staff.
• Collect and analyze data, produce models and visualizations, and draw conclusions and develop recommendations from the data to improve decision-making for OBFM.
• Document and evaluate financial management related business processes and make recommendations for process improvements.
• Analyze and help develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Data Analytics.
• 5-8 years of related accounting and financial experience.
• Preferred: Certified Governmental Financial Manager (CGFM), Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

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