Financial Analyst

Perks of Working at Ignite Digital:

• Competitive pay and benefits, including PTO
• Education stipends and referral bonuses
• Compelling work with the U.S. federal government
• Strong emphasis on volunteer and community engagement
• Opportunity to shape the future of our industry
• Supportive colleagues and management who invest in your growth

The Financial Analyst supports IPT Leadership, the Finance team, and Team Leads by managing financial processes, coordinating funding actions, and ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting across the IPT.

Responsibilities:

• Update financial dashboards on a weekly basis
• Provide support to IPT BFMs
• Coordinate with the BFM team for all funds acceptance, both reimbursable and direct cite, including creating project structures and NWAs in N‑ERP for new funds received
• Populate and route FDAs for IPT and 1.0 review and signature
• Create project cost estimates, communicate scheduled funding request plans with sponsors, complete funds acceptance with the IPT BFM, and create/maintain spend plans for the IPT alongside team leadership
• Ensure all funding received has an associated spend plan using the latest template, and work with team leads to capture regular forecast updates
• Ensure spend plan data is aggregated and ingested into the PowerBI data model for cross‑project views of labor allocation and planned versus actual expenditure
• Support command data calls with information on obligation authority, projected monthly expenditures, and carryover projections
• Support service PR actions by providing NWA and funding document information needed to award contract modifications

Required Qualifications:

• Experience supporting financial management, budget formulation, or funds acceptance processes
• Familiarity with N‑ERP or comparable financial/enterprise management systems
• Ability to create, manage, and update project cost estimates and spend plans
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and projections
• Experience developing or maintaining dashboards, reports, or data visualizations
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to track and manage multiple concurrent funding actions and documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting DoD financial management or working within NIWC Atlantic or similar organizations
• Familiarity with IPT financial workflows, NWA creation, FDA routing, and reimbursable/direct cite funding processes
• Experience working with Power BI data models or other advanced analytics platforms
• Prior experience supporting command‑level data calls or expenditure forecasting
• Understanding of project lifecycle financial requirements, including labor allocation and planned vs. actual expenditure tracking
• Experience supporting PR actions, contract modifications, or funding documentation packages

Salary:75k+ to align with education and experience.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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