David Pearson
Stafford,VA
Summary
I am a seasoned financial management executive with over 30 years of continual growth within the Department of Defense. Throughout my career, I have led critical initiatives that include but are not limited to audit readiness, internal controls, resource management, and enterprise systems at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. I bring an understanding of financial accountability, audit compliance, and process optimization that supports national defense objectives and federal fiscal stewardship across the organization.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Director Consulting Expert
CGI Federal
Fairfax, VA
10.2024 - Current
- Secretariat Comptroller Resource Department (SCRD), BSO12 Data Cleansing Team.
- Collaborate with the Program Manager to provide recommended actions to both the Data Cleansing Team and SCRD leadership.
- Supervise, mentor, and facilitate corrective actions on over 45,000 accounting records, valued at more than $433 million.
- Conduct root cause analysis and develop actionable recommendations that are immediately implemented by SCRD to improve data accuracy and financial integrity.
- Prepare and deliver senior executive-level briefs to leadership and financial management personnel, clearly communicating progress and findings.
- Provide specialized technical expertise supporting the Defense Department’s DDEF unmatched transaction-cleansing efforts.
- Maintain a close interface with the client to maximize the effectiveness and impact of the Data Cleansing Team’s work.
Director Consulting Expert
CGI Federal
Fairfax, VA
06.2023 - Current
- Collaborate closely with the Program Manager, serving as a technical advisor to both the CNODCT team and client stakeholders.
- Supervise, mentor, and facilitate corrective actions for over 95,000 accounting records, totaling more than $14.7 billion.
- Assist in planning, designing, controlling, and implementing project plans and results to ensure that all contractual requirements are met.
- Prepare and present briefs to senior executives and financial management personnel, effectively communicating project progress and financial impacts.
- Maintain continuous interface with the client to maximize the effectiveness and impact of CNODCT efforts.
Project Manager
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
Vienna, VA
01.2023 - 06.2025
- Provided critical support in executing the Unified Contract Action Tiger Team (UCATT), where HSST team members conducted corrective actions on suspended contracting modification transactions identified in the PDS action report.
- Supervised the development and implementation of the HQMC RFX Pre-validation Procedures, including the receipt, analysis, and publication of PREVAL suspense reports for command retrieval and action.
- Led a team of 25 personnel, overseeing the development of project deliverables, and ensuring the timely submission of all internal company requirements.
- Responsible for planning, designing, controlling, and managing project plans and outcomes to meet all contractual obligations.
- Ensured compliance with established quality standards, coordinated multiple workstreams, and managed resources effectively to resolve problems and maintain high client satisfaction.
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consultinf)
Vienna, VA
10.2021 - 01.2023
- Reviewed and analyzed aged pre-validation errors across multiple entitlement systems, including MOCAS, CAPS-W, and ONEPAY.
- Developed a comprehensive ONEPAY Pre-Validation Failure Master Workbook to track aged and high-value invoices requiring corrective action by subordinate commands.
- Led weekly ONEPAY Pre-Validation Working Group meetings, synchronizing efforts between HQMC and DFAS to ensure the timely resolution of issues.
- Provided guidance to commands to correct erroneous or missing obligations posted within the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI), addressing $30.4 million in discrepancies.
- Generated accounting system reports, accompanied by detailed analysis and recommendations for RFX, to facilitate manual payments by DFAS for pre-validation errors totaling $23.6 million.
- Provided NAVFAC with accounting reports and analysis for invoices processed with incorrect accounting information, totaling $798,000.
- Identified returns within DAI totaling $380,000 to allow payment of ONEPAY pre-validation suspense errors.
- Detected a failure in the PSEUDO to TRUE LIMIT table, which caused both ONEPAY and CAPS-W pre-validation suspense transactions; this issue was subsequently escalated for action by RFX.
- Reviewed draft guidance published by RFX and created a SYNCADA Interim Solution Tracker supporting RFX in monitoring DAI PMO de-obligations and HSST bulk obligation efforts to anticipate execution impacts for L2 commands.
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
Vienna, VA
11.2020 - 09.2021
- Assumed responsibilities as Directorate Lead for the financial management offices supporting the Deputy Commandant, Plans, Policies, and Operations (DC, PP&O), and the Deputy Commandant, Information (DC, I).
- Led the Accounting and Review Team in conducting analysis on key performance indicators and financial processes, identifying abnormal accounts, and providing assistance through individual consultations and Sustainment Operations Support (SOS) meetings.
- Conducted detailed reviews of active files and transaction histories for abnormal conditions affecting DC, PP&O and DC, I including Undelivered Orders Unpaid, Paid Lack of Receipt, Delivered Orders Unpaid, Negative Unliquidated Orders, Unmatched Disbursements, Labor, and Refunds Received
- Analyzed a total of 1,674 records, totaling $138.5 million.
- Retrieved 261 missing Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) receipts, valued at $6 million, to support audit readiness.
- Reviewed all USMC Command Labor Cost Account files and processed 2,058 labor allocations totaling $3.7 million to correct Remaining Obligation Notice (RON) imbalances caused by labor across 199 current and prior-year RONs.
- Generated and disseminated daily reports, including Unmatched Transactions (UMT), Spending Errors, and Negative Unliquidated Obligations (NULOs), for HQMC Resource Fiscal Authority (RFA) use and distribution.
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
Vienna, VA
06.2018 - 11.2020
- Assumed leadership responsibilities for the Accounting and Analysis Team and served as the Budget Submitting Office (BSO) Lead for CNIC and later for BUPERS Non-MILPAY.
- Conducted a detailed analysis of key performance indicators and financial processes, identified abnormal accounts, and supported the Tri-Annual Review (TAR) through individual consultations and Sustainment Operations Support (SOS) meetings.
- Prepared and presented an executive analysis of unmatched disbursements monthly, and developed exhibits for OASIS quarterly stakeholder meetings.
- Provided onsite training and technical direction to BSOs, focusing on process improvements, and resolution of errors and abnormal transactions.
- Trained users extensively on SABRS and SMARTS systems, assisted with the update and correction of SABRS tables and Defense Travel System (DTS) lines of accounting, and provided ongoing technical support to local commands within the Norfolk, VA, area.
- Coordinated various data requirements as directed by the client, including government purchase card delinquency reporting, fiscal year 2020 table rollover validations, and commercial transportation discrepancy resolution.
- Facilitated weekly SOS conferences with CNIC, and assumed BSO Lead duties for BUPERS Non-MILPAY.
- Delivered training and virtual support tailored to individual Financial Execution Codes (FECs), ensuring broad participation across time zones. Between June 22 and August 28, 2020, my efforts contributed to the correction of 577,703 labor transactions, totaling $224.7 million.
- Reviewed program logic and submitted recommendations to CNIC to address systematic allocation errors involving over 74,000 transactions, caused by the funds control check process.
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
Vienna, VA
03.2018 - 06.2018
- Assisted the Help Desk team leader by managing all responsibilities in their absence, ensuring continuous support to users.
- Updated weekly Navy OASIS reports, and contributed content for the OASIS Help Desk section of internal presentations.
- Implemented Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) to enable Help Desk personnel to remotely view customer desktops, enhancing troubleshooting capabilities for SMARTS and SABRS issues.
- Provided direct technical support to users navigating the AMPS portal, assisting both new and existing users with SABRS access requests.
- Conducted detailed research within SABRS and SMARTS to help resolve user issues, offering guidance on accounting system procedures, and navigation techniques.
- Performed quality assurance reviews on Help Desk Tips prior to their distribution within the Navy community to ensure clarity and accuracy.
- Authored a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) detailing the validation process for SMARTS reports within the Navy SMARTS portal.
- Reconciled user access lists provided by the Technical Services Office (TSO), removing inactive users, and adding new personnel.
- Customized existing reports based on user requirements, and developed new reports that were previously unavailable within the Navy SMARTS portal.
- Provided user support for navigating the ARMS 2.0 web application, resolving 54 OASIS Help Desk tickets independently, and assisting team members as needed.
Research, Evaluation, and Analysis Branch Head
USMC Installation Command
Washington, DC
05.2015 - 03.2018
- Presented monthly audit update briefs to synchronize efforts between the command element and MCICOM regions.
- Authored ADMIN 038-16, which defined audit assertion requirements for the entire Marine Corps, and served as the guiding document for internal control assertion efforts.
- Compiled audit assertions for 772 real property assets valued at $2.16 billion, and 460 garrison property assets valued at $215.3 million, including assertions from non-MCICOM commands.
- Provided policy and procedural guidance to the logistics community in drafting MCICOM Order 10100.1, the Garrison Property Manual.
- Initiated the End of Period Report (EOPR) validation process, establishing internal controls previously absent from MCICOM’s real property audit framework.
- Coordinated more than 410 audit sample responses in support of the Statement of Budgetary Activity (SBA) audit, and Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICOFR).
- Provided guidance to staff on SABRS research, and INFOPAC report extraction.
- Developed reports using ReportStudio, provided technical troubleshooting, and created custom solutions to resolve reporting errors.
- Supervised the development of the command’s Annual Statement of Assurance, including the review and vetting of regional submissions.
- Initiated and led MCICOM's first formal Fiscal Assistance Visits (FAVs) across all regions.
- Identified a wide range of internal control deficiencies, including improper organizational structures, abnormal accounting transactions, training gaps, missing documentation, feeder system weaknesses, and overall control failures.
- Submitted 45 formal recommendations to improve financial management operations across MCICOM.
- Created a centralized repository for audit assertion documentation from the logistics and real property sections.
- Managed the creation and oversight of a conference package repository, successfully processing 28 conference packages in compliance with OSD and DON policy.
- Supported 246 MCICOM personnel and accounted for more than $665,000 in conference expenditures.
- Contributed to the DoD Financial Management Working Group, helping to draft a MARADMIN that clarified responsibilities, certification standards, and program requirements for all military and civilian financial management personnel participating in the DoD FM Certification Program.
Education
Master of Public Administration -
Webster University
St. Louis, MO05-2009
BBA -
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC05-2001
Skills
- SABRS
- SMARTS ReportStudio (Oracle)
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Data Analytics
- Managerial Accounting
- Internal Audit
- Risk Management
- Client Communication
- Supply Administration
Trainings
Certified Defense Financial Manager
Certified Internal Auditor
Certified Government Audit Professional
DoD FM Certification Level 3 - Nov 2015
IT Auditing and Controls (MIS Training Institute), May 2005
Basic Project Management (Graduate School USDA), Jun 2005
Other People’s Money (Certified Fraud Exam), Jun 2005
Financial Management Officer-Comptrollership Course, May 2006
Communicating Analysis (Management Concepts), Jun 2006
Fundamental Accounting (Management Concepts), Jun 2006
Appropriations Law Seminar (Management Concepts), Jun 2006
Preparing Federal Financial Statements (Management Concepts), Jun 2006
Leading and Managing Change (Management Concepts), Jun 2006
Terminal Area Security Officer Course, Sep 2007
Practical Comptrollership Course (Naval Postgraduate School), May 2008
Travel Card Program Management, Jul 2010
FDTA-Debt Management Monitor, Jul 2010
GSA SmartPay Training Conference , Aug 2010
Purchase Card CitiDirect Cardholder Certification, Sep 2010
Purchase Card CitiDirect Approving Official Certification, Sep 2010
Purchase Card Agency Program Coordinator Certification, Sep 2010
Simplified Acquisition Procedures CON 237, Oct 2010
Appropriations Law, Jan 2011
ADA Investigator Course, Jan 2011
DOD Information Assurance Awareness, May 2011
GSA SmartPay Training Conference, Aug 2011
USMC Annual Security Training, Mar 2012
Training for Accountable Officials and Certifying Officers, Mar 2012
INTRO - GCSS-MC Fundamentals Course (for GCSS-MC), May 2012
RPT 102 - Daily Business Intelligence (for GCSS-MC), May 2012
Personal Identifiable Information, June 2012
USMC Cyber Awareness Training, Jun 2012
FM 101 - Financial Management (for GCSS-MC), Jun 2012
DTS Basic Course, Nov 2012
Performance Measurement (Defense Acquisition University), Jan 2013
ACQ 101 – Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Mgmt (Defense Acquisition University) Sep 2013
BCF 102 – Fundamentals of Earned Value Mgmt (Defense Acquisition University) Oct 2013
BCF 103 – Fundamentals of Business Financial Mgmt (Defense Acquisition University) Nov 2013
BCF 106 – Fundamentals of Cost Analysis (Defense Acquisition University) Nov 2013
ACQ 201A – Intermediate Systems Acquisition Course (Defense Acquisition University) Jan 2014
Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt Course) - Jun 2015
CLB 007 – Cost Analysis - Dec 2016
CLB 024 – Cost Risk Analysis Introduction - Dec 2016
CLB 035 – Statistical Analysis – Dec 2016
CLC 051 – Managing Government Property in the Possession of Contractors – Dec 2016
CLC 057 – Performance Based Payments and Value of Cash Flow – Dec 2016
CLC 062 – Intra-Governmental Transactions – Dec 2016
CLC 132 – Organizational Conflicts of Interest – Dec 2016
CLC 048 – Export Controls – Feb 2017
CLE 007 – Lean Six Sigma for Manufacturing – Feb 2017
CLC 013 – Services Acquisition – Feb 2018
CLC 056 – Analyzing Contract Costs – Feb 2018
CLB 038 – Comparative Analysis – Feb 2018
CLC 125 – Berry Amendment – Mar 2018
CLM 055 – Program Leadership – Mar 2018
HBS 303 – Leading Teams with Emotional Intelligence – Mar 2018
HBS 310 – Influencing and Motivating Others – Mar 2018
HBS 412 – Difficult Interactions – Mar 2018
HBS 309 – Coaching For Results – Mar 2018
HBS 414 – Diversity – Mar 2018
Enhanced Defense Financial Management Training (EDFMT) – Dec 2019
USMC DAI CA – October 2021 – 10 hours
USMC DAI P2P – October 2021 – 6 hours
USMC DAI iProcurement – October 2021 – 10 hours
USMC DAI P2P Interfaces – October 2021 – 3 hours
USMC DAI Contract Lifecycle – October 2021 – 6 hours
USMC DAI B2R– October 2021 – 6 hours
USMC DAI O2C – October 2021 – 10 hours
Timeline
Director Consulting Expert
CGI Federal
10.2024 - Current
Director Consulting Expert
CGI Federal
06.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
01.2023 - 06.2025
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consultinf)
10.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
11.2020 - 09.2021
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
06.2018 - 11.2020
Senior Financial Analyst
Aeyon (formerly Sehlke Consulting)
03.2018 - 06.2018
Research, Evaluation, and Analysis Branch Head
USMC Installation Command
05.2015 - 03.2018
Master of Public Administration -
Webster University
BBA -
Campbell University
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