Associate Financial Management Analyst - CCAS

Title: Associate Financial Management Analyst - CCAS

Work Location: Remote – but must live in the local area for potential on site meetings

Employment: Full-Time

Min. Education Requirement/Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree in human resources or related field, or equivalent work experience, required.  5+ Years of experience

Clearance:   Must be able to pass a background check and be “clearable”

Job Summary:

Inalab has an immediate opening for an Associate Financial Management Analyst - CCAS on our contract supporting the Defense Health Agency (DHA) with Oversight & Strategic Planning Support.  The focus of the contract is to provide DHA Cost Accounting Branch, Cost Accounting Division, J8 Financial Operations, Medical Expense and Performance Reporting System (MEPRS) Program Office with support of the management, maintenance, analysis, and oversight of the Common Cost Accounting Structure (CCAS) and Defense Medical Human Resources System internet (DMHRSi) across the MHS.

Duties/Responsibilities:

The duties and responsibilities of the team are listed below

CCAS Program Oversight and Management.  Improve CCAS data quality through data quality surveillance, job aids and templates, analyses, and program management support.  Perform the following: 

• Directly assist DHA in overall administration and management of the CCAS program. 
• Provide consultation, technical, and administrative support to the CCAS program manager to ensure program viability and compliance with appropriate directives, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Provides consultation in the strategic, tactical, and operational planning and management of the DHA CCAS program.
• Support development of recommended CCAS policy, guidance and/or directives for Service implementation, subject to final government approval.
• Develop and update an issue resolution process to support the Financial Performance and Reporting System (FPRS) workgroup.
• Develop in concert with Services, requests for changes in MHS GENESIS; Defense Financial Accounting System (DFAS); Defense Medical Human Resource System- internet, (DMHRSi).
• Support the MEPRS policy and business rules within the Common Cost Accounting Structure (CCAS), MHS GENESIS Business Functional Champion, , and MHS GENESIS Solution Owners.
• Develop, maintain, revise, update, and distribute CCAS minutes, and other documentation to FPRS members for review and document any revisions and adjustments.
• Develop analyses and reports upon request using various MHS automated systems. 

CCAS Support.  Provide support to standardize the cost accounting system to maintain a clean audit and ensure performance evaluation systems and programs are able to function.   This support will allow DHA the ability to monitor, update, and track common accounting decisions and execution.   The support team is responsible for the following:

• Provide the administrative support allowing the FPRS WG Chair to effectively lead the WG. The contractor will build, update, and improve products and lead the FPRS WG/CCAS team to ensure the FPRS WG meets the goal of its charter and the CCAS Technical Manual is updated in a timely, efficient manner. 
• Provide support for FPRS WG to include: researching issues, prioritizing findings, building presentations, documenting, and tracking FPRS WG decisions, vetting Service inputs/materials, pulling historical execution data, providing trend analysis, showing behavior changes (or lack thereof) 
• Assist Cost Accounting Branch with the vetting of changes to the CCAS TM. This FTE will be the main POC for ensuring the 170+ page CCAS TM is updated on a regular basis in a timely and efficient manner. 
• Provide administrative support for DMIS ID Management, Division Staff Meetings, and Network Mapping to include: recommending and publishing DMIS ID policy(s) and procedure(s); facilitating sub WG meetings; enabling Division Staff meetings and developing and updating a Network Mapping table. 

Specific Tasks: The support team shall perform the following:

• Assess and identify all the current cost accounting components of the department’s Standard Financial Information St