Defense & Security, Financial Management Consultant

Guidehouse

Financial Management Consultant supporting Government agency within homeland security enterprise. Helping clients identify, evaluate, and solve complex challenges to achieve strategic goals.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeMcLean • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-LevelWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Financial Management Consultant will help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission.
We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.
The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals.
Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients’ senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.
This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations.
Supporting internal controls over financial reporting (ICOFR) in line with OMB Circular A-123 for a range of financial and business process.
Supporting the development and execution of corrective action plans and broader remediation strategies designed to address internal control and audit deficiencies and strengthen financial processes.
Providing a broad range of financial statement audit and audit risk management and remediation support that support the agency's goals to maintain a clean audit opinion and improve internal controls.
Assessing the impact of new guidance on financial operations and supporting the implementation of new guidance when applicable.
Applying a variety of analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills and techniques.
Documenting and evaluating business processes and making recommendations for process improvements.
Producing a variety of communications from informal email interactions with clients to formal memos, issue papers, presentations, executive briefings, and others.
Conducting research to investigate client problems and work collaboratively with your team to formulate and recommend solutions.
Assisting clients in analyzing projects and programs to identify risks and help develop, apply, and monitor mitigations Supporting clients in collecting and analyzing data, producing models and visualizations, and draw conclusions from the data to improve decision-making.
Analyzing and helping to develop and/or improve policies and procedures for a variety of programs and operational needs.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse.
Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, or applicable financial related field
TWO (2) years of financial experience
Heightened attention to detail, and the ability to create and edit technical and non-technical written work products and graphical presentations
Strong organizational and communication skills
Interest in growing a career in Government/Federal/Defense and National Security consulting
Ability to work in teams to produce high-impact work products, reports, and other deliverables in a fast-paced environment
Willingness to utilize project management best practices within an organization to produce high quality deliverables in a timely manner

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Basic Life & Supplemental Life
Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
Student Loan PayDown
Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
Skills Development & Certifications
Employee Referral Program
Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
Mobility Stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial managementinternal controlsaudit risk managementdata analysisprocess improvementfinancial reportingcorrective action plansanalytical skillsreporting skillsbusiness process documentation

Soft Skills

self-motivatedcommunication skillsorganizational skillsteam collaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailleadershipclient serviceproject managementpeople development

Certifications

Federal or DoD Public Trust