Financial Consultant SME

FM Talent Source is an enterprise that provides business and workforce solutions to help organizations nationwide overcome business challenges. Our clients include federal, state, and local government agencies, Fortune 500 Companies, and non-profit organizations. Founded in 2004, we have a strong history of providing recruitment strategies and utilizing effective project and quality management methodologies to ensure our clients' success.

FM Talent combines the technical knowledge of our employees with strong execution to help customers achieve their desired outcomes. This helped our firm earn corporate accolades to include HR Tech Outlook Magazine's Top 10 HR Consulting Firm (2021), finalist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Dream Big Awards 2022, the 2022 Globe Award recipient for Culture and Aligned Community, and Contractor of the Year Awards from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food & Safety Inspection Services Division.

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We are seeking an internal Consultant to assist with National Institute of Health (NIH)-specific financial management projects. Specifically, the Consultant will provide guidance and insight into the end-to-end lifecycle of program management, project control, and contract administration, including cost, scheduling, and quality for the NIH. The candidate will possess a strong command of NIH financial accounting policies and financial tracking systems, as well as experience supporting the overall performance objectives, contract deliverables, quality control (QC), and the place of qualified personnel within NIH.

As a Financial Subject Matter Expert within NIH, the Consultant will have the opportunity to bring a strategic, rational, and optimistic approach to defining task areas, including meeting logistics, risks identified, project communications, and supporting documentation. In addition, the Consultant will be instrumental in influencing best practices of NIH-specific contractual deals, solutions, and implementation strategies to drive long-term success with FM Talent's core capabilities. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of standard financial accounting policies and financial tracking systems. Excellent program management, team communication, and use of process improvement methodologies are essential to succeed in this role. The Consultant will own and manage client implementations and lead requirements gathering, business analysis, workforce planning, and training.

This 1099 consultant role is primarily based in the Washington, DC area and can be performed remotely. Occasional travel to FM Talent's office in Silver Spring, MD is required.

The duties of this position include but are not limited to:

The Financial Consultant SME will assist FM Talent's customers with extracting, analyzing, and assessing NIH business needs and workflows, and make consultative recommendations. Project work will span across key business areas: Financial Analysis, Business Solutions, Acquisition Lifecycle Support, Process Improvement, Communication, Program Planning, Policy Development and Implementation, and System Integration. This role requires strong organizational skills and the ability to seamlessly navigate the interdependencies of programs, operations, and project lanes. The role also requires high-level experience working in the NIH environments. NIH Project's scope of work includes:

• Act as the authorized POC with NIH to ensure contract compliance and satisfactory performance.
• Utilize existing Government financial systems and data to conduct in-depth financial analyses and make recommendations on financial improvements.
• Provide financial and inventory management analytics and support for logistics management activities, including revenue forecasting, supply/demand analysis, and breakeven analysis.
• Strengthen IT infrastructure and system integration projects across traffic management and data warehousing; track actual and budgeted costs, perform cost allocations, and identify resource burdens to determine specific areas of improvement.
• Foster strong collaborative working relationships with the COR to apply business process improvement methodologies and cultural change processes using Lean Six Sigma (LLS).
• Serve as a member on an LSS certification board; coach and mentor Black Belt, and Green Belt candidates through certification; conduct post-LLS training evaluation and reinforcement projects.
• Facilitate expert communications and outreach for internal teams and external customers/users, including developing and implementing outreach strategy, planning branding initiatives, and creating targeted messages and delivery methods during planning sessions with the COR.
• Provide workplace planning, resource management, and risk management support, including success management program development, conference and meeting services, survey services, and designing tracking tools/systems as a continual performance monitoring effort.
• Identify policy needs, issues, and problems and develop actionable steps in policy implementation, administration, and oversight.
• Support NIH in implementing administrative improvements and workflow automation, establishing an agile IT platform to scale and meet the needs of large organizations, highly distributed business operations, and diverse user communities.
• Consult and provide engineering services to agencies/operating divisions to improve their design services, interacting with customers in a focused manner to achieve meaningful improvements.
• Diligently engage with FM Talent Executives, Board of Advisors, and Senior Leaders to continuously provide business process recommendations and roadmap for future project planning.
• Exhibit a high level of resilience and adaptability in navigating through program shifts and demanding priorities, remaining tactful in handling unforeseen challenges and SOP amendments.

Key Project Requirements:

• Understanding of NIH core business and challenges.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of relevant NIH experience, driving high-impact program deliverables across business processes, workforce planning, IT infrastructure planning, and financial analysis.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, or related field (Required); Master's Degree (Preferred).
• Knowledge of NIH financial account policies, financial tracking systems, and the ability to design, develop, and deploy Dashboards and related tools.
• Experience with HR modeling, forecasting, and needs analysis, including succession program management and workforce planning and development.
• Ability to design instructional materials to facilitate training initiatives.
• Proven track record of delivering sound and actionable support of analyses of data quality issues.
• Standard budget management and analysis skills.
• Familiarity with Engineering terminology, processes, and the core fundamentals of managing IT infrastructure projects (allocating and tracking costs, scheduling, and vendor management).
• Excellent business writing skills and attention to detail; impeccable command of English grammar and the ability to communicate with key stakeholders and external partners.
• Capacity to effortlessly deliver a customer experience transformation approach to tackling high-impact/high-value projects, including helping to create foundations to drive cultural and operational change.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean Six Sigma expertise: proven track record in using business process improvement methodologies as well as organizational diagnosis and intervention techniques.
• Expert-level conception of managing cradle-to-grave acquisition lifecycle, including pre-solicitation, contract administration, and contract closeout support.
• Proficiency in or knowledge of using a variety of computer software applications, especially MS Office Suite, SharePoint, Visio, SPSS, and SAS.

FM Talent Source is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.