Job description
Job Title: Business Financial Manager (3 FTEs)
Clearance: Public Trust Required upon application
Location: Washington D.C./Hybrid
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master’s degree or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CFA) is preferred.
Seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Business Finance Manager to join our team at ARPA-H. This role is integral to managing programmatic financial operations and ensuring the financial health of the program. The Business Finance Manager (BFM) will oversee financial planning and analysis, budget management, and financial compliance to support the agency’s mission-driven initiatives and projects.
Primary Responsibilities:
Provide comprehensive programmatic, financial, and administrative support to PHO programs, including but not limited to: financial tracking, analysis and reporting, budget preparation and management of project-specific budgets. Monitor and report on variances, implementing corrective actions as needed to ensure financial sustainability., solicitation preparation and management, tracking of deliverables and milestones, maintaining schedule and calendar, meeting support, preparation of correspondence, and maintaining files
Prior Experience Requirements:
- Experience in government program financial and administrative support.
- Experience in developing, organizing, forecasting, and maintaining financial budgets and tracking technical and financial milestones.
- Experience in creating and coordinating budget and acquisition funding documents and has knowledge/competence in analysis is required.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word required)
- Excellent organizational and communication skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to handle a wide variety of tasks, including briefing support and general administration.
- Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and federal regulations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. A Master’s degree or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CFA) is preferred.
Additional Preferred Experience:
- ARPA experience desired.
- Proven experience as a Business Finance Manager or similar role within a government or research-focused organization.
- Demonstrated experience in organizing and facilitating small meetings.
- Can operate well in a group dynamic, think creatively and critically, and has a fundamental understanding of government budgeting and a fundamental understanding of government contracting.
- Can produce work products that are accurate in presentation, context and can remain focused in in stressful and fluctuating situations.
- High level of integrity, attention to detail, and organizational skills.
