Established in 1985, Kearney & Company is the largest Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm in the country exclusively focused on the government. Kearney provides financial management services to the government to improve the overall effectiveness and efficiency of financial operations; increase accountability and compliance with laws, regulations, and guidance; and protect funds from fraud, waste, and abuse. Consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work by multiple publications over the past decade, Kearney fosters a “people first” culture. Our staff — operating from our Alexandria, Virginia headquarters and satellite offices across the United States — have provided services to every Cabinet-level department and most other agencies and commissions. The support we provide helps make government better.

Kearney & Company is hiring a Senior Analyst to provide consulting support services for a federal financial system implementation project. The successful candidate will possess demonstrated critical thinking skills; strong customer service capabilities, knowledge, and experience with federal financial management processes; and the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization using multiple media. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide hands-on functional consulting support to the project management team
• Understand and represent the customer’s needs in day-to-day tasks
• Effectively execute stakeholder engagement and communications activities (i.e., develop communications plans and distribute communications work products)
• Update and maintain project SharePoint sites
• Participate in and provide recommendations for communications, stakeholder management, training, and other change management tasks
• Support, maintain, and monitor the internal project schedules that are aligned to the integrated master schedule

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Accounting, Finance, Management, or a BBA
• Minimum 3.5 years of relevant experience
• Ability to develop communications messaging and products for targeted stakeholder groups including executives
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneDrive)
• Experience executing strategies for effective workforce transition and/or experience on a financial process improvement project with the ability to identify efficiencies and provide recommendations
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance (requires U.S. citizenship)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and/or experience with financial systems/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and/or system implementations
• Minimum 1 year of stakeholder and customer engagement and/or communications experience
• Federal consulting experience centered around financial systems, organizational change management, and/or stakeholder engagement
• Agile Certification
• Technical editing experience
• Demonstrated understanding of the dynamics of a Federal financial workforce
• Demonstrated ability to develop content for professional documents
• Demonstrated critical thinking ability
• Strong written and verbal communication skills