Job Title

• Business Analyst (Non-IT) 4 Estimated Start Date 19 October 2026 Building Location Virginia Beach, VA 23452 On-Site Daily Schedule 7am-3pm EST Estimated Duration 6 months

Pay Range:

$40-42/hr Job Description The main function of a business operations specialist is to maintain vendor relationships, acting as a business analyst for non-IT projects or filling organizational roles above an administrative level, but below a management level. Other responsibilities may include maintaining all project management processes, including project goals, deadlines, metrics and budget. The business operations specialist usually reports to a project manager or director.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review and approve contracts, cost proposals and contract supplements.
• Approve project and work breakdown structures.
• Review and approve the documentation of business processes.
• Approve project budgets and expenditures, monitor transaction controls and costs against budgets.
• Predict potential budget overruns and offer solutions.
• Consult with corporate offices, project managers, auditors, client and sub-consultant representatives regarding future proposals.
• Prepare sub-agreements and review and input sub-consultant invoices to ensure contact compliance.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Strong ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Strong knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, and production methods.
• Strong ability to apply accounting and mathematical principles to work as needed.
• Strong ability to analyze business trends and project future revenues and expenses.
• Previous experience with computer applications, such as MS Word and Excel; Enterprise Application experience a plus.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business management, economics, finance, accounting or relevant field required.
• 8-10 years experience required.

Additional Role Details:

The ideal candidate is a finance/data hybrid with strong financial reconciliation and analytical skills. The individual should be capable of taking an unexplained financial variance or transaction and following it through the underlying data and organizational processes until the root cause is understood and resolved.

Preferred capabilities include:

• Finance/accounting and budget reconciliation
• Strong Excel and financial data analysis
• Forecast-to-actual variance analysis
• Transaction-level root-cause analysis
• Ability to work effectively across Finance, Engineering, BR, and Data Science
• Power BI/data-model familiarity Position's Contributions to

Work Group:

• The Budget Analyst will support Marine R&E budget management by combining financial analysis, accounting reconciliation, data investigation, and structured problem solving.

This individual will work directly with the Marine Product Team, Marine Data Science team, and Business Resources teams across multiple organizations that provide services or R&D support to Marine. The successful candidate will be comfortable taking an unexplained number in a financial report and following the data until the underlying transaction, organizational source, accounting treatment, and root cause are understood.

Reason/motivation for request:

• Addition Typical task breakdown:
• Goals for the position have been defined:
• Identify and resolve budget grief, tracing unexplained charges to the appropriate program, job, cost center, and organization.
• Reconcile affordability, forecasts, actuals, and RBM reporting, including investigation of missing or delayed invoices and classification issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis of recurring data-quality problems and work with business resources organizations to implement corrections.
• Define finance business rules and data-quality controls for implementation with the Data Science team.
• Improve program-level traceability, including situations where multiple or changing PIDs/jobs need to remain associated with the correct Marine program.
• Establish a sustainable process for identifying, assigning, resolving, and preventing future budget grief.
• For each goal, background information has been partially collected. The candidate will determine information that still needs to be gathered on requirements, source data, process, and error handling then collaborate with functional leads to meet the goal.
• Alternate between team interaction and data analysis.
• Present findings, planned solutions, and timeline expectations to the work director.

Interaction with team:

• In-person collaboration with the Marine data science team and work director.
• MS Teams meetings with Business Resources and other remote team members. Team Structure
• Individual contributor, works with business resources and data science teams.

Work environment:

• Office
• Years of experience: 8-10
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's degree in business management, economics, finance, accounting or relevant field required.
• Do you accept internships as job experience: yes
• Are there past or additional job titles or roles that would provide comparable background to this role: Business Analyst, Accountant Top 3 Skills
• Demonstrated ability to reconcile large datasets and investigate financial discrepancies.
• Strong written documentation and problem-solving skills.
• Informal project leadership; coordinating delivery across a team on small scale projects Additional Technical Skills (Required)
• Strong Excel and financial data analysis
• Power BI/data-model familiarity
• Transaction-level root-cause analysis
• Experience performing root-cause analysis rather than simply reporting variances. (Desired)
• Experience developing data-quality or reconciliation controls. Soft Skills (Required)
• Verbal communication; ability to summarize complex topics into a simple narrative (Desired)
• Ability to work effectively across

Finance, Engineering, BR, and Data Science Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:

• Requiring a high degree of direction to achieve a project objective
• Lack of experience managing budgets or financial data sets Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals.

As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support. Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/ . Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.