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Joyce Kirkland Williams

Senior Financial Analyst with Government Experience
Accokeek,USA

Summary

Ms. Kirkland Williams is a diligent and driven financial professional with over 12 years of experience. She has a proven record of accomplishments providing financial programmatic support, including preparing and tracking funding packages, assessing products and procedures for compliance with government standards, accounting principles and multi-tiered system application standards, as well as bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge of legacy Governmental accounting systems. She is an effective communicator and team builder with strong analytical, management and organizational skills. Seasoned senior financial analyst with a proven track record of driving financial performance and strategic decision-making. Experienced in financial planning, forecasting, and analysis. Skilled in identifying trends, interpreting data, and providing actionable insights to support business objectives. Strong analytical, communication, and leadership abilities, with a focus on delivering results and adding value to the organization.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

SAIC
Arlington, VA
04.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Provides resource analysis, budget execution, and financial management to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)).
  • Currently Ms. Kirkland Williams provides resource analysis, budget execution, and financial management to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)).
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provides financial budgetary support to include but is not limited to providing funding, forecasting, programming, budget documentation, execution status and funds reconciliation.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams follows the planning, programming, budget, execution (PPBE) process and guidance.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams monitors and reports the status of approved, deferred, and released funds, while maintaining cognizance of various program funds and provides financial information and obligation/expenditure performance graphs for senior leadership.
  • Provides resource analysis, budget execution, and financial management to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)).

FINANCIAL RESOURCE MANAGER

HEARTLAND CONSULTING AGENCY
Fairfax, VA
06.2023 - 03.2024
  • Company Overview: Provides financial support to the FMD Directorate of the Pentagon.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided financial support to the FMD Directorate of the Pentagon by using information derived from the Oracle system (DAI) of the department.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided financial management, budget reconciliation and reporting requirements to support the Pentagon Protection Financial Agency (PFPA) in various divisions worldwide.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams reviewed, analyzed, consolidated, and revised budget execution plans.
  • She ensured acquisition packages were accurately prepared for financial system input, tracked through approval stages, and adjusted as necessary.
  • She performed data management tasks in financial management systems and assisted in quarterly reconciliations.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams developed data for and participated in the negotiations of reimbursable agreements.
  • In addition, she modified plans as necessary in response to new program requirements, changing priorities or budgetary requirements, along with other duties and responsibilities as they were assigned.
  • Provides financial support to the FMD Directorate of the Pentagon.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST

FRONTIER, INC
Quantico, VA
12.2022 - 05.2023
  • Company Overview: Provides financial support to the counterintelligence division.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided financial support to the counterintelligence division by using information derived from the Oracle system (DAI) of the department.
  • The information drawn from the status reports of Budget to Actuals, Open Commitments and Open Obligations, to name a few, were then formulated and submitted in briefs form, to the upper echelon.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided analysis and prepared reports to ensure that the Spend Plans, Payroll (CIV PAY), and the like, were within negotiated parameters and government cost control guidelines - received, reviewed, tracked, validated, and captured data from incoming systems using Excel pivot tables and the analysis tools provided.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams was also responsible for account management, including responsibility for contract deliverables, analysis, and reporting.
  • Provides financial support to the counterintelligence division.

MANAGEMENT ANALYST III

SERCO-NA
Washington, DC
04.2022 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: Provides financial support to the submarine division.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided financial support to the submarine division by using information derived from all military disciplines to determine changes in enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities, and probable courses of action.
  • These changes were accomplished by working directly with the customer and team members to determine project scope and specifications, while providing research and analysis to support military organizations.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams collected drafts, revisions, and finals to Technical Instructions (Tis) to provide financial summaries and present analysis to the customer.
  • She supported various financial planning and execution activities, including generating financial execution reports and dashboards, tracking budgets, overtime, and supporting financial/ programmatic reviews.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams prepared POM submittals, uploading, and maintaining required task planning sheets (TPS) in NAVSEA Enterprise Planning System (NEPS) while tracking expenditures and trends against the plans.
  • Provides financial support to the submarine division.

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ANALYST

QUANTITATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS (QS2)
Newington, VA
09.2021 - 03.2022
  • Company Overview: Provides PPBE (POM/Budget Development) support.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided PPBE (POM/Budget Development), by assisting with running Business meetings using the PBMT system to maintain data and adjusted data within the system.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams monitored the Spend plan by tracking executions, commitments, obligations and expenditures, adjusting as required.
  • She was also responsible for responding to financial inquiries, providing reports, analyzing and developing project schedules to determine financial impacts.
  • Provides PPBE (POM/Budget Development) support.

BUSINESS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

HERREN & ASSOCIATES
Washington, DC
02.2019 - 09.2021
  • Company Overview: Provides financial management support to the Department of Navy.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided short-term and long-term budget planning, to include tracking financial execution, cost performance, evaluation of schedules, and developing reports/metrics for management while analyzing and evaluating project schedules to determine financial impacts.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams also developed and updated a suite of tools used for analyzing data and complex planning scenarios to ensure cost estimates and corresponding budget submissions were accurate and defensible.
  • She performed ad hoc analysis of financial data based on client requirements, updated, reconciled, and analyzed monthly financial execution reports utilizing various ERP reports, as well as managing the planned amounts in ERP.
  • This task included but was not limited to resolving Navy ERP funding allocation mismatches, troubleshooting purchase requisitions and purchase order creation errors, and supporting workflow routing issues.
  • Lastly, Ms. Kirkland Williams provided brief statuses to the Program Office Lead Business Finance Manager (BFM) to identify issues and provide recommendations.
  • Provides financial management support to the Department of Navy.

FINANCIAL ANALYST III

ITILITY, LLC
Fort Meade, MD
04.2018 - 01.2019
  • Company Overview: Provides program execution and financial support to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided program execution and financial support to include preparing and tracking funding packages.
  • She reviewed and submitted funding documents to support payments ensuring the financial transactions were supported and in accordance with policy and internal control practices.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams tracked funding execution, as necessary, realigned, and ensured the spending plans were within spending limits and authority.
  • She made recommendations concerning processing of contract packages due to incorrect or insufficient funding, outstanding unliquidated obligations (ULOs), undocumented requirements, etc.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams used the Integrated Resource Information System (IRIS), DASHBOARD, KT and other designated DISA and government databases.
  • She assessed products and procedures for compliance with government standards, accounting principles and multi-tiered system application standards.
  • Provides program execution and financial support to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST-REIMBURSABLES

INTEGRATED TRAINING SOLUTIONS
Arlington, VA
11.2016 - 03.2018
  • Company Overview: Provides financial management support to the Department of Navy.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams monitored and tracked obligations and expenditures of funds.
  • She assessed products and procedures for compliance with government standards, accounting principles and multi-tiered system application standards.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams provided reconciliation for the unofficial undistributed disbursements (UUDs) and negative unliquidated obligation with the Standard Accounting Reporting System (STARS) and SABRS.
  • She tracked and provided recommendations for execution of the Navy financial systems such as the Navy Industrial Accounting and budgeting systems and the Standard Accounting and Reporting System-Field Level (STARS-FL).
  • She provided expert analysis and evaluations to management that encompassed budgetary resource planning and execution required for effective management, operations, and decision-making.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams analyzed program policies developed by other offices to evaluate the design, implementation, and resulting effectiveness of acquisition programs as the result of earned value analysis.
  • Provides financial management support to the Department of Navy.

FINANCIAL ANALYST

5 STAR PLACEMENTS
Washington, DC
07.2015 - 03.2016
  • Company Overview: Provides financial analysis support to the Security Exchange Commission.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams conducted complex studies of financial operations and functions to determine causes of anomalies and out-of-compliance issues.
  • She provided analysis involving financial trading and securities to assess vulnerabilities in the trades, policies, and systems evaluating and interpreting established internal policies, procedures and management controls to ensure adequacy.
  • Ms. Kirkland Williams analyzed cash flows, revenue projections, and financial ratios, demonstrating the ability to be flexible and work creatively and analytically in a problem- solving environment by constructing and reviewing Excel spreadsheets.
  • Provides financial analysis support to the Security Exchange Commission.

Education

MASTER OF SCIENCE - Financial Management and Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
Adelphi, MD
08.2016

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Business Administration - Finance

XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Cincinnati, OH
08.2003

Skills

  • Corporate Finance Accounting
  • Risk Management
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Client Appreciation
  • Goal Oriented
  • Financial Statements
  • Analytical Skills
  • Credit Analysis
  • Organizational Skills
  • Litigation
  • Microsoft Applications
  • Financial Reports
  • Risk Assessment
  • Research
  • Decision Making
  • Advanced Excel Skills

Security Clearance

Secret

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST

SAIC
04.2024 - Current

FINANCIAL RESOURCE MANAGER

HEARTLAND CONSULTING AGENCY
06.2023 - 03.2024

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST

FRONTIER, INC
12.2022 - 05.2023

MANAGEMENT ANALYST III

SERCO-NA
04.2022 - 12.2022

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT ANALYST

QUANTITATIVE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS (QS2)
09.2021 - 03.2022

BUSINESS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

HERREN & ASSOCIATES
02.2019 - 09.2021

FINANCIAL ANALYST III

ITILITY, LLC
04.2018 - 01.2019

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ANALYST-REIMBURSABLES

INTEGRATED TRAINING SOLUTIONS
11.2016 - 03.2018

FINANCIAL ANALYST

5 STAR PLACEMENTS
07.2015 - 03.2016

MASTER OF SCIENCE - Financial Management and Information Systems

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - Business Administration - Finance

XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Joyce Kirkland WilliamsSenior Financial Analyst with Government Experience