Title: Budget Analyst
Location: Virgina Beach, Virginia
Details: Contract with ongoing need, opportunity for direct hire, fully onsite role
Pay Rate: $42.00 – 46.00/hr. with benefit inclusions
Job Summary
The Budget Analyst supports budget management, financial reporting, and data-driven decision-making for a marine R&D organization. This role combines financial analysis, accounting reconciliation, data investigation, and root-cause problem solving to identify and resolve budget discrepancies across programs and organizations. The ideal candidate can trace financial variances to their source, improve reporting accuracy, and collaborate effectively with Finance, Data Science, Engineering, and Business Operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Analyze budgets, forecasts, actuals, and financial reports to identify and resolve discrepancies.
- Investigate unexplained charges by tracing transactions to the correct program, project, cost center, organization, and accounting treatment.
- Reconcile affordability targets, forecasts, actual spending, and reporting data.
- Perform transaction-level root-cause analysis of financial and data-quality issues.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve discrepancies and improve reporting accuracy.
- Define and document finance business rules, reconciliation processes, and data-quality controls.
- Collaborate with data science teams to implement reporting enhancements and controls.
- Maintain program-level financial traceability across multiple projects and changing identifiers.
- Develop sustainable processes to identify, resolve, and prevent recurring budget issues.
- Gather business requirements, validate source data, and support process improvements.
- Present findings, recommendations, and project updates to leadership and stakeholders.
Years of Experience and Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Management, or a related field required.
- 8-10 years of experience in finance, accounting, budgeting, business analysis, or a related analytical role.
- Internship experience may be considered toward overall experience requirements.
- Prior experience as a Budget Analyst, Financial Analyst, Business Analyst, or Accountant preferred.
Skills Required
- Financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and reconciliation.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and large dataset analysis.
- Financial discrepancy investigation and variance analysis.
- Transaction-level root-cause analysis and structured problem solving.
- Knowledge of accounting principles and financial reporting.
- Power BI and data modeling experience.
- Development of reconciliation processes and data-quality controls.
- Strong written documentation and business process analysis skills.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information to diverse audiences.
- Project coordination and informal leadership experience.
- Cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Engineering, Operations, and Data Science teams.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and critical-thinking skills.
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