Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Calculated Hire is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead their Financial Group. In this pivotal role, you will supervise a multidisciplinary team overseeing complex financial and accounting operations while ensuring compliance with regulations and managing financial reporting.
Responsibilities
- Lead and supervise a multidisciplinary team of business analysts, accountants, and professional staff responsible for complex financial and accounting operations
- Manage team performance, assign work, approve time sheets and leave requests, and provide direction on deliverables, priorities, and operational improvements
- Oversee preparation, review, and maintenance of complex accounting systems and financial reports
- Direct the development and maintenance of Cost Allocation Plans for OATS and partner agencies, ensuring compliance with state and federal accounting laws, policies, and procedures
- Serve as subject matter expert on eMARS accounting functions, including access and chart of accounts, and monitor IT-related expenditures and revenues across interconnected systems and applications
- Analyze and manage system interdependence across financial, procurement, timekeeping, and HR platforms
- Lead the development of federal and state documentation, including Advance Planning Documents (APDs), budgets, and expenditure reports
- Coordinate with federal partners on IT project approvals, reporting requirements, and compliance documentation
- Review and provide guidance on procurement activities, including RFP timelines and sole-source justifications
- Oversee financial tracking and reporting for IT projects using internal project management systems such as 3PO (Program, Portfolio, Project)
- Manage accounting and reporting for over 450 IT-related contracts, including System Development Services (SDS) contractors, and serve as the primary liaison for explaining system interactions and financial impacts across multiple agency platforms
- Evaluate financial and operational reports to identify and implement opportunities for improved efficiency and effectiveness
- Design and maintain advanced Excel-based reporting tools, including pivot tables, complex formulas, and data integrations, and streamline reporting across systems to improve data quality and accessibility
- Develop and deliver training on financial processes, reporting requirements, and system usage
- Create, implement, and interpret policies and procedures related to accounting and contract management
- Lead and coordinate special initiatives and assignments as directed by OATS executive leadership
- Research, track, evaluate, and report on OATS’s SDS Contractor and State payroll Project Labor budgeting and spending
- Perform technical and detailed writing, editing, and proofreading of required correspondence, communications, presentations, and other documents
- Assist in the development and technical review of federal financial proposals, reports, and planning documents within required timelines
- Work closely with agency management and project teams to understand project requirements and assist with the development of training materials and process improvements
- Organize material and complete writing assignments according to agency standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology
- Utilize a combination of computer and critical thinking skills
- Maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion in all aspects of the role
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of recent, relevant work experience
- 3+ years of federal or state accounting, budget, revenue, expenditure, and operational processing experience
- 3+ years of data tracking, reporting, and/or data validation
- 3+ years documenting, reviewing, improving, and communicating business processes
- 3+ years of accounting operational processing or budget development, including analysis and recommendations based on historical spending and research
- Proficiency in Microsoft Product Suites (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, including pivot tables and data comparison)
- Experience developing documents based on information from multiple subject matter experts and research
- Strong time management skills, ensuring compliance with externally imposed deadlines
- Organizational and planning skills
- Outstanding written and oral communication skills
- Information gathering and monitoring skills
- Judgment and decision-making ability
- Initiative and adaptability
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to stay on task while working remotely
- Emotional intelligence and interpersonal communication skills
- Prior experience with eMARS, budgeting, accounting, and/or HR systems
- Advanced Excel experience managing and integrating data sets
- Experience writing financial request documents and/or justifications in a governmental environment
- Working knowledge of government regulations related to grant proposals and advance planning documents
- Prior experience with the Commonwealth of Kentucky
- Prior experience preparing healthcare information technology proposals or working in the healthcare technology environment
- Prior writing, proofreading, and editing skills
Company Overview
Calculated Hire is a Staff Augmentation Entry Level Hiring Solutions Managed Services, Accounting Finance, Compliance Marketing, etc. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://calculatedhire.com.