At North Highland, we believe in doing great things together. With you. With our clients. With a perspective on actions today that shape tomorrow. As the world's most innovative, collaborative consulting group, we've built a space to share ideas like never before. Do you have the skills, passion and commitment to transform industries for the better? Think you can bring your A-game every day? If so, join us. We like big thinkers with action on the brain...
Why North Highland? Every choice you make will give you the opportunity to grow. It's our employee ownership model - with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities in the mix. For us, training doesn't have an off switch. You'll learn new things, both during and beyond traditional working hours. We want people who strive for the next level, then the next.
At North Highland, you're never a number. Our firm is large enough to scale up, test your mettle and tackle big challenges, but small enough that clients won't lose your face in a crowd. You're recognized individually.
We started as three leaders and a kitchen table. Which means we know expectations are made to be broken. Want to surprise us? Do it. Experiment and stretch yourself. There's room to grow as a budding entrepreneur.
Exciting work you will do:
Provide business process analytics support
Collect and analyze data necessary for financial Formulation related to critical mission operations to enable decision making by leadership
Assist with coordination, preparation, planning, and justification of the annual budget cycle in the Planning, Programming, Budget, and Execution process (PPBE) to include schedules, training, briefings, and meetings
Conduct data analysis for the clients Organizations and Directorate programs; develop and monitor program portfolios and provide data analysis in a programmatic overview. This includes reviewing budget law, regulation, policies, etc.
Assist in ensuring financial requirements are aligned with the client's missions and program objectives and are justified within the annual budget submission, to include Congressional Justification writing and editing
Assist in developing and reviewing policy direction/guidance and standard operation of procedures, to include fiscal guidance
Work with the clients directorates to develop the organization's budget, reviewing budget proposals for completeness and accuracy
Examine prior budgets and data to identify trends and provide recommendations for future years programs and projections
Apply policy and program changes to analysis to determine short and long-term impact on mission
Analyze reports that oversee spending to ensure compliance with the budget and determine whether changes to funding levels are needed for certain programs for future years
Conduct gap analysis and root cause analysis to provide data for performance improvement
Obtain or utilize existing working tools that will enable dashboard reporting and monitoring
Provide integration capability for formulation and execution to leverage analytical products for use in all PPBE cycles
Utilize identified requirement gaps to document end-to-end business processes and diagrams, standard operating procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and desktop guides
Collect and analyze data necessary for financial execution related to critical mission operations, such as payroll, travel, etc. to enable decision making by leadership
Perform other financial management related functions as needed
What you will need:
Bachelor's Degree with relevant coursework and/or training, such as accounting, program management, data analytics, or similar
Have a working knowledge of Federal Government Budgeting and associated processes
Solid experience in federal government, PPBE processes
Understand policies that relate to Federal Government and Office of Management Budget (OMB) policies
Ability to manage multitask projects of high complexity
Possess strong organizational skills to evaluate workload, set priorities, and meet mission requirements
Must be advanced and proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook.
Experience in developing, applying and improving qualitative and quantitative performance measures
Experience with data analytic methods and tools, such as Tableau
Possess professional written and oral communications skills
** Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, now or in the future, for this position.
North Highland makes change happen for organizations who dare to be different. By melding workforce, customer, and operational transformation, they are one of the world's leading consulting groups, with 65+ offices around the globe. They break new ground today so tomorrow is easier to explore.
North Highland is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
