Federal Financial Management & Internal Controls Manager

Position Overview

FI Consulting is seeking a Federal Financial Management & Internal Controls Manager to own complex workstreams and provide senior-level leadership on federal client engagements. This role will oversee systems analysis, process assessments, governance activities, stakeholder engagement, and documentation efforts related to financial technology, business transformation, and modernization initiatives. The Manager will serve as a trusted advisor to senior client financial leadership, including OCFO leadership, and executive governance bodies.

The Manager will work closely with FI Consulting and client leadership to establish project priorities, guide teams, manage delivery quality and risk, and ensure that recommendations support broader mission and modernization objectives. This individual may serve as a senior day-to-day client lead, oversee multiple interconnected workstreams, and act on behalf of the Program Manager when designated.

The ideal candidate has experience in federal financial management, management consulting, business transformation, governance, process improvement, or project/program management, including significant experience leading federal client engagements and multidisciplinary teams. The successful candidate can translate complex financial, business, and technology challenges into actionable strategies and recommendations and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple functional workstreams or major components of complex federal financial management, internal controls, and modernization engagements.

• Lead internal control and audit-readiness assessments across financial processes and systems, including review of process narratives, control documentation, risks, audit findings, and remediation needs; evaluate gaps against OMB Circular A-123, FFMIA, and applicable federal financial management requirements.

• Provide senior-level oversight and direction to teams of analysts, financial management practitioners, technology specialists, and subject matter experts, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of client work products.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client leadership, including OCFO leadership and executive governance bodies, on financial management, systems modernization, internal controls, portfolio priorities, and transformation initiatives.

• Assess budget, accounting, procurement, asset management, and financial reporting processes, including status of funds and financial statement reporting.

• Lead the documentation and assessment of current-state and future-state business processes, workflows, systems, data flows, interfaces, controls, roles, responsibilities, and governance activities.

• Lead the development of Total Cost of Ownership baselines for applications within client portfolios, including licensing, hosting, maintenance, and other relevant costs.

• Direct the development of current-state assessments, gap analyses, recommendations, and implementation roadmaps.

• Lead senior-level stakeholder interviews, workshops, executive briefings, and working sessions to identify business needs, operational challenges, risks, and modernization priorities.

• Lead the development of process maps, analytical reports, executive briefings, decision papers, analyses of alternatives, roadmaps, and other client deliverables.

• Advise client leadership and governance boards on portfolio priorities, strategic options, risks, dependencies, and recommendations, ensuring alignment with mission priorities, enterprise architecture, existing systems, and modernization initiatives.

• Lead or facilitate governance boards, executive briefings, status reviews, and other senior stakeholder forums, ensuring decisions, action items, risks, and dependencies are documented and driven to resolution.

• Oversee risk and issue management across assigned workstreams, including the escalation of significant delivery, operational, or program risks and the development of appropriate mitigation strategies.

• Coordinate across client financial divisions, CIO/IT organizations, and agency governance bodies to promote alignment, reduce duplication, and address cross-functional dependencies.

• Provide senior oversight of project planning and reporting, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, quality control, resource needs, and executive status reporting.

• Partner with government and FI Consulting leadership to establish engagement priorities, resolve complex issues, and achieve project and program objectives.

• Mentor and develop junior team members, providing guidance, feedback, and quality oversight.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor''s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Public Administration, Information Systems, Management, or a related field.
• 10-15+ years of professional experience, with significant experience supporting federal clients in financial management, management consulting, program/project management, business transformation, governance, process improvement, or related areas.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex federal consulting engagements, major workstreams, or multidisciplinary project teams.
• Experience advising senior federal stakeholders and facilitating executive-level governance, decision-making, or strategy discussions.
• Experience performing or overseeing current-state assessments of federal financial processes, systems, or controls.
• Experience with federal financial systems planning, implementation, modernization, or transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience developing and presenting recommendations, strategies, roadmaps, or analyses to senior client leadership.
• Strong understanding of federal financial management, internal controls, governance, and modernization environments.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, project risks, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level communication, presentation, and facilitation.
• Strong analytical, organizational, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial, operational, and technical information into clear recommendations and executive-level decision support.
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and reviewing the work of project teams.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance.
• Must work onsite in the Washington, DC area starting on the first day of employment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a federal OCFO or equivalent financial organization.
• Significant experience with financial systems, IT governance, technology portfolio management, Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), financial reporting, modernization initiatives, or digital transformation.
• Experience leading large or complex federal financial management or technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience developing or overseeing SOPs, process documentation, training materials, governance artifacts, and internal control documentation.
• Experience supporting organizational change management, process improvement, training, or transition initiatives.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience applying OMB Circular A-123 and federal internal control requirements, including control assessment, audit readiness, documentation of findings, and remediation activities.
• Experience managing and developing consulting teams and building strong client relationships.

Compensation

Actual compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including experience, skills, education, certifications, geography, role scope, business needs, and internal equity considerations. At FI, we view employees as individuals rather than simply matching compensation to a job title. We recognize that people with the same title may bring different experiences, capabilities, specialties, and contributions, and we strive to evaluate each candidate holistically.

A reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this position is $150K-$200K. Compensation may also include an annual bonus. The posted range is intended to accommodate varying levels of qualifications and growth within the role over time. As a result, candidates are typically not hired at the top of the posted range, with compensation increasing as employees develop skills, take on additional responsibilities, and demonstrate sustained performance.