Chaun Cypress

Results-driven financial management professional with extensive experience in budget planning, forecasting, cost analysis, and strategic financial leadership. Adept at optimizing financial resources, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving cost-saving initiatives. Proven expertise in managing complex budgets, leading cross-functional teams, and advising senior leadership on financial decision-making.

Program Analyst Senior Principal - Science Applications International Corporation

(2023-09)

• Lead portfolios to ensure effective financial management of budget formulation and program analysis of resources for multiple complex high-profile programs
• Communicated with servicing agency regarding unobligated commitments before fiscal year end regarding program offices expanding their year-end execution rates which are briefed monthly to senior management for validation of execution efforts to assist with strategic goals
• Supported small working groups in developing new financial management processes, software, applications, tools, and systems with a vision toward process improvement
• Coordinate with financial system analysts to address system malfunctions, data errors, and operational issues, ensuring seamless operations and future enhancements the agency enterprise
• Assist in data gathering and analysis across multiple systems, supporting informed decision-making and data quality improvement for users
• Review, verify, and analyze data for consistency with financial plan and program objectives. Performs trend analyses, revises projections as necessary and reprograms funds accordingly
• Lead engagement with department divisions and program managers to brief senior leadership on monthly executions, unfunded requirements, and the five (5)-year defense plan. This led to situational awareness for senior leadership on all requirements to make informed, strategic, and programmatic business decisions to reduce unfunded requirements backlog
• Review funds distribution and analyzes actual obligations and expenditures per financial reports to ensure the integrity of financial reports and agency obligations and expenditures records and reconciles differences
• Evaluate contractor proposals and ECPs with contract officer, contract technical representative, and other technical staff resulting in an executable contract with government savings
• Review all funds from others and funds to other MIPRs requirements to ensure the appropriate documentation is provided to accept or send funds to meet effort needs
• Participate in establishing and defining program plan requirements; develop budgets and spend plans; and monitor and report performance against plans to meet contractual, cost and schedule objectives and requirements

Lead Budget Analyst - National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)

(2018-07 - 2023-09)

• Lead portfolios to ensure effective financial management of budget formulation and program analysis of resources for multiple complex high-profile programs
• Provide sound and clear advice guidance on the interpretation of all aspects of Congressional legislation, regulatory directives, and procedural requirements for the formulation process including congressional budget justification book, President Budget staffer day charts, program budget submission, and r-docs
• Review funds distribution and analyzes actual obligations and expenditures per financial reports to ensure the integrity of financial reports and agency obligations and expenditures records and reconciles differences
• Evaluate contractor proposals and ECPs with contract officer, contract technical representative, and other technical staff resulting in an executable contract with government savings
• Review, verify, and analyze data for consistency with financial plan and program objectives. Performs trend analyses, revises projections as necessary and reprograms funds accordingly
• Supported small working groups in developing new financial management processes, software, applications, tools, and systems with a vision toward process improvement
• Coordinate with financial system analysts to address system malfunctions, data errors, and operational issues, ensuring seamless operations and future enhancements the agency enterprise
• Assist in data gathering and analysis across multiple systems, supporting informed decision-making and data quality improvement for users
• Lead engagement with department divisions and program managers to brief senior leadership on monthly executions, unfunded requirements, and the five (5)-year defense plan. This led to situational awareness for senior leadership on all requirements to make informed, strategic, and programmatic business decisions to reduce unfunded requirements backlog
• Support financial audits by providing external/internal auditors with back up documentation for sample audit requests that resulted in Clean Audit Opinions
• Lead year-end process adhering to all established deadlines to ensure an effortless fiscal year-end closing
• Lead collaboration with cross functional working groups for approval and Fedwire transfer funds to joint ventures to keep program on schedule and within budget
• Train co-workers and new developmental team members on the basics of becoming exceptional budget analysts within the enterprise by demonstrating step by step on linkage of the cost data and the financial tools
• Review all funds from others and funds to other MIPRs requirements to ensure the appropriate documentation is provided to accept or send funds to meet effort needs
• Served as team lead of five employees for accounting operations team that supports 15 Directorates and over 100+ offices processing commitments, obligations, and invoice payments to expand year end execution rates that assist with strategic goals of the mission
• Served as acting supervisor for a team of five employees that supported multiple complex programs
• Served as Acting Budget Director for a team of four employees that support multiple complex programs
• Processed inter-government payment and collections and update outdated standard operating procedures and found efficiencies resulting in a decrease in invoicing process time and increase accountability to deliver on mission by expanding collaboration with other Federal Agencies on program requirements and meet acquisition expenditures
• Applied knowledge, subject matter expertise, and tradecraft to process pre-validation transactions sent from Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) before a payment is posted that allow directorates and offices to deliver on mission every day and improve overall budget execution monthly
• Communicated with servicing agency regarding unobligated commitments before fiscal year end regarding program offices expanding their year-end execution rates which are briefed monthly to senior management for validation of execution efforts to assist with strategic goals
• Provide Quality Control support for the conversion of records from paper to electronic media; Conduct document preparation including removal of binding material; Classification review of incoming documents to ensure documents are scanned to the appropriate platforms Inventory and file project and document level data

Senior Auditor - Defense Contract Audit Agency

(2014-06 - 2018-07)

• Served as acting supervisor for a team of five auditors. Provided guidance on how best to analyze complex issues
• Independently lead a large high-visible proposal with an approximate value of $400M. This resulted in $17 million dollars of questioned costs and $8 million dollars sustained during contract negotiations
• Participated and significantly contributed to national security proposals estimated at $600M. This resulted in $33 million dollars of questioned costs and $12 million dollars sustained during contract negotiations
• Performed an audit on Direct and Indirect Labor Forward Pricing Rate Proposal (FPRP) for a multi-billion-dollar defense contractor to ensure overhead expenses were allocable in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS). The Indirect FPRP audits from 2014-2017 assisted the DACO identify an estimated $126M of estimated cost savings. The Divisional Administrative Contracting Officer (DACO) executed the first Indirect Forward Pricing Rate Agreement (FPR
• Participated in the assigned FAO duty station related to special projects by serving as the office closeout point of contact. Oversaw and distributed assignments to co-workers to be performed. Responsible for reviewing the quality of their work before final approval
• Assisted with complex audit assignment task, such as FPRP, contract proposals, terminations, proposal adequacy reviews, disclosure statements, and incurred costs proposal

Bachelor of Science - Accounting with Minor in Business Management

Master of Business Administration - Finance