Financial and Business Solutions (FABS)
SIN 520-1 & 520-13: Program Financial Advisor/Complementary Financial Management Services
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Labor Category |
Government Hourly Rate |
Government Daily Rate |
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FSP Member of PA's Management Group |
$431 |
$3448 |
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Member of PA's Management Group |
$356 |
$2848 |
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Project Manager / Chief of Party |
$243 |
$1944 |
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Principal Financial Consultant |
$275 |
$2200 |
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Senior Financial Consultant |
$225 |
$1800 |
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Financial Consultant |
$186 |
$1488 |
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Financial Analyst |
$146 |
$1168 |
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Partner Attorney |
$405 |
$3240 |
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Senior Attorney |
$284 |
$2272 |
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Attorney |
$203 |
$1624 |
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Senior Regulatory Specialist |
$251 |
$2008 |
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Regulatory Specialist |
$170 |
$1360 |
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Analyst |
$122 |
$976 |
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Senior Contracts Administrator |
$97 |
$776 |
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Contracts Administrator |
$73 |
$584 |
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Logistics Coordinator |
$49 |
$392 |
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USAID Cooperating Country National |
$37 |
$296 |
Labor category descriptions
FSP Member of PA Management Group
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area
Work Experience: 15 years of relevant experience
Criterion: Partner in PA Consulting Group’s Financial Services Practice
Functional Responsibilities:
- Senior director responsible for all technical aspects of engagement including overall client account management, technical oversight, quality assurance and client satisfaction
- Responsible for insuring that PA’s capabilities are appropriate and performing at appropriate levels of productivity and creativity
- Provide intellectual leadership to engagement team components and work stream leaders in formulating technical, business and integration strategy, solution development and execution
- Serves as lead PA representative (director) in key presentations to client executives and insures that the full breadth of PA’s expertise, even when outside the project team, is available to the client.
Member of PA Management Group
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area
Work Experience: 15 years of relevant experience
Criterion: Partner in PA Consulting Group
Functional Responsibilities:
- Director responsible for all contractual aspects of engagement including overall project management, contractual oversight, quality assurance and client satisfaction
- Senior PA executive responsible for integration of technical work components with change management, educational and communications work components
- Works closely with client executives and provides senior client interface throughout the entire account life cycle to insure full understanding of the client’s objectives and technical requirements and that these are matched by PA’s commitments and work plan
- Responsible for insuring that PA’s capabilities are appropriate and performing at appropriate levels of productivity and creativity
- Serves as lead PA representative (director) in key presentations to client executives and insures that the full breadth of PA’s expertise, even when outside the project team, is available to the client.
Project Manager/Chief of Party
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 12+ years of relevant experience
Functional Responsibilities:
- Senior project leader or resident manager responsible for all aspects of engagement including overall project management, technical and commercial oversight, quality assurance and client satisfaction
- Senior executive responsible for integration of technical work components with change management, educational and communications work components
- Works closely with client executives and provides senior client interface throughout the entire account life cycle to insure full understanding of the client’s objectives and technical requirements and that these are matched by PA’s commitments and work plan
- Responsible for insuring that PA’s capabilities are appropriate and performing at appropriate levels of productivity and creativity
- Serves as day-to-day PA representative (manager) in activities with client executives.
Principal Financial Consultant
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 15 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 13 years, or Doctorate + 11 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a specialist bringing senior level technical expertise to the assignment at all levels beyond that of the other team members, in a specialist area such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance effortsActs as subtask manager on technical subject matter in area of expertise.
- Acts as subtask manager on technical subject matter in area of expertise
- Called upon to speak or write in specialist area
- Develops the quality and project plan and responsible for effective supervision of their execution.
Senior Financial Consultant
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area
Work Experience: 11 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 9 years, or Doctorate + 7 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a specialist bringing senior level technical expertise to the assignment at all levels beyond that of the other team members, in a specialist area such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance efforts
- Acts as subtask manager on technical subject matter in area of expertise.
- Called upon to speak or write in specialist area.
- Develops the quality and project plan and responsible for effective supervision of their execution.
Financial Consultant
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 7 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 5 years, or Doctorate + 3 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Utilizes depth of experience and refined analytical, technical and communication skills toward the development and implementation of solutions to clients environmental planning problems
- Assists in developing the quality and project plan. Responsible for the day-to-day execution thereof
- Provides expert level skills and supervision of solution design, development and implementation efforts within own area of technological expertise with the support of the project team
- Acts as a specialist bringing technical expertise to the assignment, in a specialist area such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance efforts.
Financial Analyst
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 4 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 3 years, or Doctorate
Functional Responsibilities:
- Utilizes analytical, technical and communication skills toward the development and implementation of solutions to clients environmental planning problems
- Provides skills in solution design, development and implementation efforts within own area of technological expertise to support the project team
- Acts as analyst on assignments, such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance efforts.
Partner Attorney
Minimum Education: J.D.
Work Experience: 15 years of relevant experience
Criterion: Partner of a law firm (subcontractor)
Functional Responsibilities:
- Director responsible for legal aspects of engagement including legal oversight, quality assurance and client satisfaction
- Responsible for insuring that law firm’s capabilities are appropriate and performing at appropriate levels of productivity and creativity
- Serves as lead legal representative in key presentations to client executives
- Acts as a lawyer bringing the most senior level legal expertise to the assignment, beyond all other attorneys, in a specialist area such as:
- Conduct compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Assist with quality assurance efforts
- Acts as subtask manager on technical subject matter in area of expertise
- Called upon to speak or write in specialist area.
Senior Attorney
Minimum Education: Law degree
Work Experience: J.D. + 7 years
Criterion: Senior Associate or Of Counsel at a law firm (subcontractor)
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a lawyer bringing senior level legal expertise to the assignment, in a specialist area such as:
- Conduct compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Assist with quality assurance efforts.
Attorney
Minimum Education: Law degree
Work Experience: J.D. + 1 year as a lawyer
Criterion: Associate at a law firm (subcontractor)
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a junior lawyer to assist senior lawyers on an assignment
- Application of legal and communication skills to assist in legal research, drafting documents
- Works with senior attorneys and client personnel to assist in environmental planning
- Assists in the conduct of legal analysis and design of improvements to legal and regulatory documents
- Provides interpretation of findings derived from legal research
- Provides legal support to the project manager.
Senior Regulatory Specialist
Minimum Education: Law degree, or senior level experience in a regulatory agency
Work Experience: 11 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 9 years, or J.D. + 7 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a regulatory specialist bringing senior level regulatory expertise to the assignment, in a specialist area such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance efforts
- Acts as subtask manager on technical subject matter in area of expertise
- Called upon to speak or write in specialist area.
Regulatory Specialist
Minimum Education: Law degree, or experience in a regulatory agency
Work Experience: 7 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 5 years, or J.D. + 3 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a regulatory specialist bringing regulatory expertise to the assignment, in a specialist area such as:
- Assess and improve financial management systems
- Conduct A-127 system compliance reviews
- Assist with implementation of corrective actions
- Document systems
- Identify systems requirements
- Plan and develop systems
- Assist in meeting agency financial management system requirements
- Assess and improve financial reporting and analysis
- Develop new reporting formats and pro-forma financial reports
- Assist in improving and streamlining reporting and analysis processes
- Perform cost-benefit or other special financial analyses
- Assist with the requirements of the Government Performance & Results Act
- Assist with devising and implementing performance measures and related processes and systems
- Assist with strategic and operational financial planning
- Resolve audit recommendations
- Assist in managerial cost accounting
- Assist in financial policy formulation and development
- Perform economic and regulatory analyses
- Develop methods for analyzing costs, benefits and impacts of regulations and policies
- Collect data and prepare Information Collection Requests for approval by OMB
- Conduct exposure and risk analyses
- Develop, modify or apply risk characterization models to analyze and evaluate polices, programs and regulations
- Perform actuarial services and/or actuarial data analysis services
- Collection, analysis, editing, calibration and data entry of Employee Benefit Plan information
- Conduct updates of a full actuarial valuation pension plan database, program major upgrades or significant new modeling capabilities
- Perform quantitative analysis of covered pension plans to identify plans that are potentially noncompliant or under-funded
- Assist with quality assurance efforts.
Analyst
Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 1 year of relevant experience
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a junior consultant to assist senior consultants on an assignment
- Application of strong analytical, technical and communication skills to assist in implementing environmental planning solutions
- Prepares analyses using structured problem solving/requirements specification frameworks
- Assists in the conduct of complex analysis and design of environmental planning processes, systems, networks, databases, etc.
- Provides interpretation of findings derived from technical information analyses
- Performs design and development work within own area of technological expertise and in support of a team of consultants.
Senior Contracts Administrator
Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 11 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 9 years, or J.D. + 7 years
Functional Responsibilities:
- Serve as PA’s counterpart to GSA’s Contracting Officer
- Acts as a senior resource to assist Project Manager on an assignment
- For commodity procurement, carry out activities such as:
- Perform all regulated and mandatory steps in the procurement process in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and appropriate agency Acquisition Regulations in order to solicit, negotiate, and award contracts
- Request all appropriate approvals/clearances through US government agency client
- Perform all administrative actions to ensure proper performance under each contract
- For grants awarded, carry out activities such as:
- Perform all regulated and mandatory steps in the assistance award process in accordance with 22 CFR 226 in order to solicit, negotiate, and award grant
- Request all appropriate approvals/clearances through USAID
- Perform all administrative actions to ensure proper performance under each grant
- Manage the work of other contract administrators.
Contracts Administrator
Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 7 years of relevant experience, or Masters + 5 years, or J.D.
Functional Responsibilities:
- Assist Project Manager on an assignment
- For commodity procurement, carry out activities such as:
- Perform all regulated and mandatory steps in the procurement process in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and appropriate agency Acquisition Regulations in order to solicit, negotiate, and award contracts
- Request all appropriate approvals/clearances through US government agency client
- Perform all administrative actions to ensure proper performance under each contract
- For grants awarded, carry out activities such as:
- Perform all regulated and mandatory steps in the assistance award process in accordance with 22 CFR 226 in order to solicit, negotiate and award grants
- Request all appropriate approvals/clearances through USAID
- Perform all administrative actions to ensure proper performance under each grant.
Logistics Coordinator
Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 1 year of relevant experience
Functional Responsibilities:
- Assist Contracts Administrator on an assignment
- Carry out research for procurement and grants
- Arrange travel for consultants
- Arrange shipping for equipment
- Manage contract files.
USAID Cooperating Country National
Applicability: Professional services on international projects sponsored by USAID Missions, working in the host country only. Not available for work in USA.
Government Hourly Rate: $37.00. Further rate discounts offered to ordering agency to be based on previous salary history (as documented on USAID form 1420), on USAID Mission Local Compensation Plan (as provided by relevant USAID Mission), or on local market surveys.
Minimum Education: Bachelors degree in related area (or equivalent level of professional and technical experience)
Work Experience: 1 year of relevant experience
Functional Responsibilities:
- Acts as a local consultant to assist expatriate consultants on an assignment
- Provides local experience, especially as related to language, law, infrastructure, culture, and norms
- Application of strong analytical, technical and communication skills to assist in implementing financial solutions
- Prepares analyses using structured problem solving/requirements specification frameworks
- Assists in the conduct of complex analysis and design of financial planning processes, systems, networks, databases, etc.
- Provides interpretation of findings derived from technical information analyses
- Performs design and development work within own area of technological expertise and in support of a team of consultants.
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