2021 Summer Internship--Finance and Acquisition Career Field
POSITION SUMMARY
FINANCE & ACQUISITION CAREER FIELD
Officers in the Finance & Acquisition Career Field are responsible for enabling enterprise management by programming, budgeting, allocating, and managing approved resources, developing strategies at all levels of the Agency to include long-term strategic planning, and communicating as well as advocating Agency priorities, goals and requirements to a myriad of internal and external audiences, to achieve the best mix of forces, equipment, and support attainable within available resources. Finance functions include producing financial reports, including financial statements; performing accounting functions; and analyzing financial data. Responsibilities under Acquisition include formulating strategies; planning execution schedules; executing contracts for goods and services; and streamlining the acquisition process. Other key career field responsibilities include assembling procurement documentation; participating in the evaluation of contractor cost proposals; preparing cost estimating data for prospective acquisitions; performing contractor cost and schedule performance measurement tasks; monitoring contractor performance through burn rate analysis; and assisting the program management team and leadership with strategic business planning and economic analysis.