Praxis Engineering
Budget/Finance Procurement Administrator
Praxis Engineering, Mc Lean, VA
Budget/Finance/Procurement Administrator
Praxis recently was awarded a prime contract to perform High Performance Computing (HPC) support for a restricted customer and a few select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfacing IT infrastructures committed to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing supercomputing clusters, GPGPUs, FPGAs, ASICs (pronounced /A-Six/), and Kubernetes clusters enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government's most challenging computational and scientific problems.
What you will be doing:
The Budget / Finance / Procurement Administrator performs analyses and prepares reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines. Participates in the preparation of budgets for the Program and performs and/or assists in financial analyses such as funding profiles and variance analysis.
What you need:
Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role
Salary range:
$89,250.00 - $195,500.00 (Annually)*
REQ#: PRX-24-418
*The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.
Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.
With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.
*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.
Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don't do things because "that's the way we've always done things"; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer's mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.
And then there is the...
Benefits
Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.
Praxis recently was awarded a prime contract to perform High Performance Computing (HPC) support for a restricted customer and a few select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfacing IT infrastructures committed to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure containing supercomputing clusters, GPGPUs, FPGAs, ASICs (pronounced /A-Six/), and Kubernetes clusters enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government's most challenging computational and scientific problems.
What you will be doing:
The Budget / Finance / Procurement Administrator performs analyses and prepares reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines. Participates in the preparation of budgets for the Program and performs and/or assists in financial analyses such as funding profiles and variance analysis.
What you need:
- Has extensive experience with spreadsheet tools, i.e., MS Excel.
- Has a thorough understanding of the customer's budget planning and contracts processes, and make budgetary recommendations.
- Works with the customer, Contract Program Manager and Deputy Program Manager to estimate, propose, develop, track and implement the budget for the program based on customer direction.
- Is detail oriented and meticulous in the development, tracking and reporting of budget related items.
- Has significant experience with presentation and word processing software to integrate tables and graphics into presentations and reports.
- Conducts research to develop pricing estimates for software and hardware to include obtaining quotes from multiple vendors.
- Maintain correspondence suspense files, records, files for reports, operating procedures, internal memorandums, and composes correspondence.
- The Budget / Finance / Procurement Administrator is self-directing and self-pacing, completes tasks without direction, and has either an M.S. with three years of professional experience, a B.S. or vendor/professional certification with a minimum of six years of professional experience, or no degree with a minimum of nine years of professional experience.
Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role
Salary range:
$89,250.00 - $195,500.00 (Annually)*
REQ#: PRX-24-418
*The range displayed above is a likely salary range for this position. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD.
Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems.
With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.
*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.
Why Praxis?
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don't do things because "that's the way we've always done things"; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace. We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer's mission. We've been profitable year after year. We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do. We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best. No red tape. No micromanagement. Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better.
And then there is the...
Benefits
- Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREE employee HSA medical plan!
- Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
- Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
- 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3.5%) and employer match (up to 4.5%) for a total of 8%.
- Annual bonus plan
- 4 weeks Paid Time Off + 10 holidays + comp time eligibility. (30+ days of leave to start!)
- We reward longevity! On your 5th work anniversary - you will receive an additional week of PTO to 5 weeks of PTO. Making it 35+ days of leave altogether!
- On your 10th work anniversary - you will receive an additional week of PTO to 6 weeks of PTO. Making it 40+ days of leave altogether!
- At any time, your unused PTO can be traded in for $$$!
- Carryover a max of 380hours of leave from year to year. You can choose to have a sabbatical one year or trade in your unused PTO for something nice!
- Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars.
- Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
- Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
- Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
- We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.
Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.