LMI is seeking a skilled Senior Business Analyst at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS) headquarters in Washington, DC. This position will support a program development and improvement workstream on a project to modernize and remediate systems and organizational processes focused on financial management within the government agency.

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to improving the business of government, drawing from deep expertise in advanced analytics, digital services, logistics, and management advisory services. Established in 1961, LMI is a trusted third party to federal civilian, national security, and defense agencies, operating free of commercial and political bias. For more than 60 years, LMI has worked with 40 government agencies. From the departments of Defense to Health and Human Services, LMI is honored to support the government's mission and people around the globe. We believe government can make a difference, and we seek talented, hardworking, mission-driven people who share that conviction.

We offer a generous compensation package with excellent benefits that start the first day of employment. In addition, we offer opportunities to work on challenging issues and a variety of projects across customer sets. We encourage our employees to continually learn, grow, and challenge themselves. We offer financial support for tuition and certifications, a robust internal mobility program, and funded opportunities to innovate and research new possibilities, as a few of our many benefits available to our employees.

As the Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for helping executive and other senior leaders, teams and organizations respond to internal and external drivers, and identify new and better ways of working to accelerate strategic outcomes and enrich the experience of the workforce. Responsibilities may include the following activities:

Helping individuals, teams and organizations transform by partnering with customers to understand their needs and lead efforts to implement and evaluate high-quality solutions to improve performance and maximize employee engagement.
• Applying best practices methodologies, approaches, and assessments to design and facilitate meetings, events, and activities to help leaders and teams build capacity, capability, agility, and resilience to tackle the toughest challenges.
• Designing and implementing strategies that improve organizational structures, clarify roles and responsibilities, enhance business processes, and streamline operations.
• Designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative metrics to measure program performance and compliance.
• Developing executive level reports and dashboards that are data-driven and summarize outcomes from implemented strategies and recommend next steps.
• Employing change management and process improvement principles and methodologies from ideation through implementation.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to provide additional support to the client and identifying opportunities to expand services.
• Working with a team to conduct needs assessments with stakeholders.

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a discipline related to business, information technology, organizational effectiveness, or organizational systems/processes.
• 10 years of professional experience in defining requirements with formal documentation and organizational policy development.
• Excellent research skills.
• Experience analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and presenting to executive leaders.
• Experience evaluating programs/processes and identifying and recommending alternative solutions to an agencies' needs.
• Strong, demonstrated problem solving experience and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple groups and tasks and work independently or in a group.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of tools, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and Visio.
• Ability to get DHS public trust security clearance.

Desired:

• Master's degree, preferably in a discipline related to business, information technology, organizational effectiveness, or organizational systems/processes.
• Experience working within an operational law enforcement or military headquarters element, particularly in areas related to financial management.
• Experience working within a federal agency's Office of the Chief Financial Officer (or equivalent) supporting activities outlined in OMB Circulars A-11 and/or 123.
• Lean Six Sigma and/or Change Management certifications.
• Existing DHS public trust or security clearance.