Finance Officer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Job Description:

Requisition Id4405
The Business Services Directorate (BSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) invites applicants for a Finance Officer position. Incumbents will provide professional guidance to management regarding budgeting and accounting policies, methods, and techniques; and independently carry out assignments in budget preparation, cost analysis and control, and other special assignments, requiring extensive knowledge of systems and methods commonly used in the financial community.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for account management, funds control, budget allocations, cost analysis, FWP/SPP budget cycle, cost transfers, special requests, and interaction with project staff to resolve problems.
- Responsible for planning, coordination, and final preparation of the sensitive segments of the budget. Evaluates changing monetary levels and predicts subsequent impact on UT-Battelle.
- Performs cost analysis on interdivisional projects of major significance.
- Provides professional guidance to management regarding budgeting and accounting policies, methods, and techniques.
- Prepares and ensures compliance with monthly and quarterly reporting requirements and year-end close-out requirements.
- Prepare and deliver financial presentations to Division Directors and/or Group Leaders within BSD and customer.
- Prepare models, analytical studies, and reporting for laboratory costs and indirect rates.
- Identify and remain compliant with financial laws and regulations.
- Respond to and follow up to ad hoc requests from project staff for financial information.
- Provides support in such functional areas as budget preparation and cost analysis as well as other areas of financial responsibility as required.
- Ability to become familiar with the ORNL Accounting system and external databases in order to proficiently perform responsible tasks.
- Ensures compliance with environment, safety, health and quality program requirements.
- Maintains strong commitment to the implementation and perpetuation of values and ethics.


Basic Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting with collateral in information management or business analytics.
- Two years of broad training and experience in a wide variety of finance, accounting, or information management assignments, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Demonstrated planning and organizing skills.
- Ability to coordinate many projects simultaneously with changing priorities.
- Excellent problem analysis and resolution skills are required.
- Must possess the ability and willingness to work effectively as a member of a team, as well as independently, as required.
- Excellent attention to detail and well-developed written and oral communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to assess priorities, allocate workloads and meet conflicting deadlines.
- Requires proficiency in applying accounting principles, policies, and procedures.
- Ability to interface with scientific and technical staff utilizing excellent human relations skills.
- Requires proficiency in PC Microsoft Office, word processing, spreadsheets, and databases, such as Access, Word, Excel including pivot tables, formulas, and power query, MS Power BI, and Adobe Acrobat.
- Experience with BI and visualization technologies to represent complex data models to drive business transparency and support decision making.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in finance or accounting.
- Experience with SQL Server and Visual Basic for Applications is a bonus.
- Knowledge of UT-Battelle and DOE accounting systems desired.

This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.
We accept Word (.doc, .docx), Adobe (unsecured .pdf), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and HTML (.htm, .html) up to 5MB in size. Resumes from third party vendors will not be accepted; these resumes will be deleted and the candidates submitted will not be considered for employment.

If you have trouble applying for a position, please email ORNLRecruiting@ornl.gov.

ORNL is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. UT-Battelle is an E-Verify employer..