Job Description:

Business System SME III supports the planning, policy, execution, reporting, and oversight of Business System and Financial Management (FM) operations. Support budget formulation, budget execution, cost accounting, resource evaluation and analysis (RE&A), OMB A-123, and financial statement audit initiatives. Support the formulation, evaluation, interpretation, and application of proposed and published FM policies and procedures. Support Fiscal Year (FY) closeout activities, including funds execution, reconciliation, validation, and certification. Support the development and delivery of financial management training, assistance, and inspection programs. Develop and deliver briefings relative to FM operations. The individual may also supervise peer and/or junior financial analysts.

The Business System SME III position will support U.S. Marine Corps activities and personnel by executing assigned responsibilities within the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI). This includes services to DAI business system migration, including training and sustainment of all modules. This also includes receiving, analyzing, prioritizing, coordinating, diagnosing, and resolving requests for assistance through virtual, remote, and in-person support, primarily with geographically local activities. Routine scenarios may be resolved through the application of existing guidance and training aids, while non-routine scenarios may require significant research and coordination to develop, propose, and implement service-wide solutions. Duties and expectations include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Progressive financial and/or logistics and/or system experience.
• General experience required includes: Full understanding of the functionality and capability financial or business systems.
• Familiar with design and internal processes as well as familiarization with the functional design and development of databases.
• Progressive experience in data exchanges between the family of systems or integration between the systems.

Experience Requirements:

8 years of directly related professional experience performing related tasks.

Additional Requirements:

• Familiarity with and capability to access, navigate, and transact within DAI.

• Familiarity with DAI modules: Budget-to-Report (B2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Order-to-Cash (O2C), Cost Accounting (CA), Oracle Time and Labor (OTL), and reporting through Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

• Experience with modules within Advana like FM Analytics (HuNT Tool), Dormant Account Review – Quarterly (DAR-Q), and Gamechanger.

• Highly capable of pulling, formatting, and analyzing reports from various sources to cross reference and navigate solutions to complex problems within the DAI accounting system.

• Ability to generate problem disbursement solutions, for tracking transactions and reducing overall transaction volume of issues like unmatched transactions (UMTs), Invoice on Holds, and Sync Errors. Coordinate error corrections, enhance financial reporting accuracy, and support decision-making.

• Assist in the command of the completion of internal and external audit programs like DAR-Q, Full Financial Audits, and other financial-related inspections.

• Provide functional and technical expertise to assist the workforce in the analysis of their assigned responsibilities.

• Integrate job aids/quick reference guides specific to the MFC configuration, encompassing the most performed business processes to increase proficiency.

• Identify and research performance trends and processing gaps, coordinate with stakeholders, and report findings and recommendations to client management for resolution

• Provide functional and technical expertise to assist the workforce in the execution of their assigned responsibilities.

• Integrate job aids/quick reference guides specific to the USMC configuration, encompassing the most commonly performed business processes into informal training opportunities to increase proficiency across the user base.

• Identify anomalies or unexpected results when navigating in DAI, recording information, or validating interfaced data.

• Identify and research performance trends and processing gaps, coordinate with stakeholders, and report findings and recommendations to client management for resolution.

• Limited travel may be required, not anticipated to exceed four (4) weeks per year.

• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, including ability to lead periods of informal virtual, remote, and in-person support/training with DAI users.

• Ability to multi-task and employ problem-solving skills.

Certification Requirements: N /A

Education Requirements:

4 years directly related professional experience, performing related tasks can be substituted for a Bachelor's degree. Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Administration or other related business, scientific or technical discipline.

Work Type:

OnSite - Norfolk, Virginia

Clearance Requirements:

Secret or ability to achieve.