The Strategic Data & Financial Analyst provides strategic, data-driven analysis to support ADC contractors and agency operations. The role focuses primarily on financial forecasting, modeling, and decision support, with additional responsibility for broader operational and case-related data analysis across agency programs. The person in this role will work in a complex data environment that includes systems currently undergoing redesign. The responsibilities of this position include extracting, cleaning, validating, interpreting, and presenting data, as well as providing informed input on system functionality and data structure during the transition. Clear communication of assumptions, limitations, and confidence levels associated with analysis is essential. The Strategic Data & Financial Analyst contributes strategic insight to agency financial planning and policy discussions by helping leadership understand how legislative actions, funding decisions, or policy changes may impact agency finances, operations, and programming. This is a dynamic position where duties will evolve, and the position should anticipate fulfilling some other duties as assigned that are reasonable and necessary to fulfill ADC’s mission.
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Strategic Data & Financial Analyst
Expires: 2026-05-05
Organization
The Office of Alternate Defense Counsel (ADC), Colorado
Salary
$95,000 - $110,000
Job Status
Full Time
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, finance, economics, accounting, public administration, or a related field and relevant professional experience performing advanced financial, analytical or data-driven work;
or
Equivalent combination of education and experience demonstrating advanced financial forecasting, data analysis, and decision-support capabilities in a complex organizational environment. - Demonstrated experience using Tableau or a comparable business intelligence platform to support financial or analytical decision-making.
- Demonstrated experience informing decision-making through dashboard development, reporting, and financial forecasting or planning, including the development of models or scenarios.
- Demonstrated experience building financial forecasts, models, or planning tools, and conducting scenario or sensitivity analysis to evaluate tradeoffs, risks, key drivers, and downstream impacts.
- Strong data analysis skills, including experience working directly with raw, imperfect, or antiquated data systems, reconciling inconsistencies, and documenting assumptions.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and analytical work into clear written and verbal explanations for diverse audiences.
- Ability to work independently in a standalone role, manage competing priorities, and exercise sound judgment in an environment with significant oversight and compliance requirements, where decisions carry organizational and public impact.
Additional Preferred Experience:
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain data clearly and support effective use of data across teams.
- Experience building calculators, models, or planning tools to support forecasting, workload or caseload analysis, and identification of cost drivers.
- Experience working in government, public finance, or another environment with significant oversight, compliance, or public accountability.
- Familiarity with legislative or budget processes and the ability to analyze how policy or funding changes impact organizational finances.
- Experience analyzing contractor-related financial and workload trends, including cost drivers, to support planning and decision-making.
- Experience supporting and teaching effective use of data, with an interest in improving how data is collected and used over time.
- Familiarity with government operations, the criminal defense system, courts, or other justice-system environments is a plus.