Business and Accounting

As a professional in a business role, you make the business of intelligence run like clockwork. You are part of a team that supports an internal infrastructure that may be as large as the top Fortune 500 companies. You formulate and execute budget resources, develop and allocate manpower resources and even provide guidance on implementing policy on cost, finance and accounting. Start a career where you become a steward of taxpayer dollars, seeking the greatest return that money can provide: a superior intelligence service for the safety and security of our nation.

Education/Experience

• Accounting
• Accounting, Finance or Economics
• Business Administration or Business Management
• Business or Finance

Example Positions

• Financial Manager
  Leads the planning, preparation, justification, administration, analysis, forecasting, and monitoring of budget/financial information to ensure cost-effective support of IC organizations. Uses knowledge and application of federal budgetary and financial management theories, concepts, principles, and standards to oversee budget/financial data analysis and assesses financial conditions.
• Budget Analyst
  Anticipates and/or identifies financial issues and their program implication, and recommends adjustments or corrective actions based upon each particular acquisition phase and learned best practices. Formulates, analyzes, presents, defends, communicates and executes agency’s financial program. Provides guidance to customers.
• Accountant
  Uses accounting systems and techniques to help decision-makers manage cost and measure performance. Performs accounting and financial processes and transactions related to recording and reporting agency’s financial activity. Reviews financial and accounting results to ensure quality, accuracy, and compliance with appropriate legal, regulatory and procedural requirements.
• Finance Analyst 
  Researches financial issues. Provides regulatory and procedural guidance to customers. Processes financial transactions; prepares vouchers to authorize payment; issues checks or electronic payments; certifies availability and accountability of funds.
• Business Consultant
  Advises and assists organizational leadership with strategic business planning and decision-making by providing recommendations based on sound business principles and supported by detailed analyses.
• Contracting Specialist
  Contracts for goods and services, conducts negotiations, reviews purchase requests, and clarifies all facets of a proposed acquisition to ensure accuracy and completeness. Prepares requests for proposals and awards documentation and administers the contracts until performance is completed.
• Cost Analyst
  Performs lifecycle cost estimates to inform strategic budget decisions, identify budget funding requirements and develop long-term budget projections. Approaches include analysis of alternatives, economic analysis, cost as an independent variable analysis, and business case analysis.
• Business Consultant
  Advises and assists organizational leadership with strategic business planning and decision-making by providing recommendations based on sound business principles and supported by detailed analyses.
• Management Analyst
  Reviews large amounts of written material and applies analytic, diagnostic, and qualitative techniques to evaluate the impact of proposed budget actions on Intelligence Community programs. Leads the development of responses to proposed budget adjustments.

Learn more about careers within the IC at intelligencecareers.gov