Senior Financial Analyst: Gps Accounting & Initiatives

This role supports projects related to complex, highly visible, and transformative initiatives that intersect Accounting, Finance, Technology, and Compliance. It emphasizes strong execution, analytical problem-solving, and partnering with stakeholders to deliver process improvements, efficiencies, and enabling capabilities in a compliant-oriented environment. The role supports and/or leads workstreams for strategic initiatives, partners with management to support compliance and regulatory processes, contributes to the design and implementation of financial processes, analytics, and technology/reporting enhancements, identifies and helps implement process improvements, and supports federal compliance initiatives. The role also involves using GenAI tools for tasks like summarization, synthesis, data interpretation, and content drafting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Supports and/or leads workstreams for strategic initiatives that require interactions with GPS leadership, helping create alignment to support growth and profit outcomes in a collaborative, compliance-focused manner. As a key contributor on the GPS Accounting and Initiatives team, the role helps develop insights and operationalize initiatives, including supporting implementation and adoption of system enhancements across both the GPS and firmwide suite of financial systems.
  2. Partners with GPS management to support compliance and regulatory processes, contributing analysis and documentation while balancing Sector, OP, and Firm perspectives and incentives.
  3. Contributes to the design and implementation of financial processes, analytics, and technology/reporting enhancements that underpin New GPS Business Models (including Products+, Services+, etc) in compliance with Federal regulations.
  4. Identifies and helps implement process improvements and efficiencies to benefit the team and practice (e.g., standardizing templates, improving data quality checks, streamlining recurring reporting).
  5. Supports federal compliance initiatives including analyzing direct and indirect rates, documenting and reviewing compliance processes and procedures, and other activities as required.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree (Accounting or Finance preferred)
  • 3+ years of relevant experience in a financial and/or accounting based role
  • 1+ years of experience in Microsoft Excel (Advanced Skill)
  • 1+ years of experience applying GenAI tools to work tasks (summarization, synthesis, data interpretation, content drafting) with strong judgment around confidentiality, bias, and validation
  • Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Nice to have

  • Strong organization, consultative, communication (written and verbal), stakeholder management, time management, and presentation skills
  • Prior experience with Enterprise Systems required (e.g., Costpoint, SAP, etc.)
  • Experience with accounting system querying tools (e.g., Cognos, Query Studio)
  • Working understanding of governance, risk, and compliance concepts
  • Experience working in a professional services environment supporting a government contractor
  • Ability to synthesize large volumes of data into meaningful insights for leadership and stakeholders
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver work across concurrent initiatives

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future