Central Intelligence Agency Work Values

Daily Duties at Central Intelligence Agency:

• Manage budget for approximately six departments which vary from $25,000,000 to $7 billion. Oversee project execution including management of resources and development of monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports. • Serve as the final point of contact regarding project planning involving requirements, scope and development of budgets for grants packages to various federal offices. • Collaborate with internal and external auditors on Sarbanes Oxley and other related controls. • Propelled 30% increase in departmental grant submissions • Supported researchers with budgeting and project planning, contributing to 25% increase in funding. • Demonstrated effective budgetary control, and reduced departmental deficit by 30%. • Improved accountability and audit controls for the department • Effectively controlled budgetary, and helped reduce departmental deficit. • Developed and evaluated sponsored budgets, budget justifications, and other administrative data for submission to appropriate funding agencies. • Managed and supervised staff of up to 5 full-time associates in operational and financial reporting roles while streamlining processes and achieving high customer satisfaction at all levels • Created detailed financial models utilizing Excel functions for annual budget process from various databases resulting in more timely and accurate projections. • Researched and resolved ledger mapping issues, cost center allocations. Researched and explained variances from actual to budget. • Created a new reconciliation report -wide expense control initiative. The report enabled management to have a snapshot of all components used in the calculation of revenues and expenses for easier analysis of budgets and prior periods • Performed monthly financial analysis and worked with local finance team to explain variances to budget. • Intricately analyzed financial information, assets and identified efficiency improvement opportunities specifically related to the purchasing and maintenance processes. • Created collateral criteria checklists to streamline and improve review timeliness. • Managed financial departments with responsibility for Budgets, Forecasting, Payroll, Accounts Payable and Receivable. • Develop opportunities for reducing cost by replacing the current system of operations with a cheaper and cost effective solution • Perform cost accounting analysis of the accounting statement of the organization as a whole • Conduct cost analysis for particular projects, systems, departments, or the entire organization to check its performance. • Excellent analytical skills that help to evaluate data, judge its effectiveness, draw conclusions and make recommendations • Proficient to communicate and provide leadership to the staff members on different accounting issues • Ensure that the accounting statements of each department are accurate, complete, fair and legal. Approve these statements with necessary the stamp and signatures. • Supervise, train and guide the finance department on planning and implementing various financial policies of budgeting, forecasting, acquisitions, investments, expansion etc

What they like about Central Intelligence Agency:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

Advanced Excel (VBA) and PowerPoint skills, knowledge of Hyperion, Essbase, SmartStream, Capital IQ, Bloomberg, SAP, Tableau

Skills

Strategic Financial Planning, Process Improvement, Pricing Financial Reporting, Financial Modeling/Analysis Budgets, Forecasting , Internal Controls SAP, Internal Controls SAP, MS Office suites (Excel), Variance Analysis, Oracle and Hyperion

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