Statement of Work-Financial-Analyst-rev.pdf

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)

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FINANCIAL ANALYST PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

BACKGROUND:

The Maritime Administration (MARAD), including the Office of Marine Financing, located at Headquarters at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590 has a need for an experienced financial and credit professional familiar with DOT and other federal agency credit programs, as well as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to support the Title XI credit program and other initiatives within MARAD that require funding/financing considerations. These services are vital to providing technical expertise to MARAD to improve existing programs and develop or augment program capabilities to meet MARAD objectives in the near term.

SCOPE OF WORK:

1. Advise Program with credit and financial expertise, financial modeling and analysis as needed for Origination and Portfolio Management (including with financial statement review “FSR” process), or other areas within MARAD.

2. Advise on and assist in reviewing financial statement information into anticipated financial spreading tool for Title XI borrowers/guarantors.

3. Continue to advise, and assist on implementing, the recently enacted National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) relating to Title XI program, including but not limited to the requirement to develop an expedited process for low-risk applications.

4. Finalize the OMF Policy and Procedure Manual to take into account OIG findings and the NDAA changes to Title XI program.

5. Continue to review and assist with update of Title XI website pages to take into account program updates, including streamlined process.

6. Continue to advise on completion of Phase 2 version of Rshiny system (Title XI database to store program information, select documents, and include audit capability) development and implementation and subsequent add-ons and improvements. Continue to populate data and test any remaining items for Phase 1 version released in June 2020.

7. Continue to advise on possible improvements to Title XI program monitoring and developing updated reports, tools, and methods.

8. Continue to assist OMF developing responses to remaining requirement from findings in July 2020 final report. Assist as required related to the OIG for the anticipated next audit of the Title XI program on monitoring as may be needed.

9. Review and assist with development of training program for financial analysts to continue improvements in credit and financial analysis for Origination and Monitoring phases and implementation of the low-risk application process and/or streamlined process.

10. Other Duties as assigned.

EDUCATION AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

- MBA

- Including but not limited to, analytical (financial and credit analysis), communication (written and oral), ability to conduct program assessments and presenting findings and recommendations to meet outlined objectives, ability to go from creating strategy to implementing plan, translating program objectives to

FINANCIAL ANALYST PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

providing technical assistance in order to recommend changes to program statute, regulations and/or policies, create and present training materials to meet requested knowledge objectives.

DELIVERABLES:

Including written explanations or feedback (e-mail or memo) in response to requests from Technical POC, Status updates on initiatives as may be requested by Technical POC (written as an updated pipeline report and/or verbal), materials in support of training or policy manual updates/revisions/additions, and reports.

TECHNICAL POC:

David M. Gilmore, Director, Office of Marine Financing

(202) 366-2118, David.Gilmore@dot.gov

TRAVEL:

No travel required.

GOVERNMENT FURNISHED EQUIPMENT (GFE):

Government provided equipment includes a computer with network access to the MARAD servers, a workstation with a desk. Incumbent is not required to have a security clearance.

PAYMENT SCHEDULE:

The contractor will bill Monthly or Bi-weekly.

NON-PERSONAL SERVICES STATEMENT:

Contractor employees performing services under this order will be controlled, directed, and supervised, by management personnel of the contractor. Contractor management will ensure that employees properly comply with the performance work standards outlined in the statement of work. Contractor employees will perform their duties independent of, and without the supervision of, any Government official or other MARAD Contractor. The tasks, duties and responsibilities set forth in the Contract may not be interpreted or implemented in any manner that results in any contractor employee creating or modifying Federal policy, obligating the appropriated funds of the United States Government, overseeing the work of Federal employees, providing direct personal services to any Federal employee, or otherwise violating the prohibitions set forth in Parts 7.5 and 37.1 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The Government will control access to the facility and will perform the inspection and acceptance of the completed work.

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS CONTRACTOR MUST MEET:

mailto:David.Gilmore@dot.gov

FINANCIAL ANALYST PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Performance Objective

(The Service required— usually a shall statement)

Standard Performance Threshold (This is the maximum error rate. It could possibly be “Zero deviation from standard”)

Method of Surveillance

PRS # 1.

The contractor shall provide advice and assistance with implementing changes to the application intake and borrower monitoring processes through analysis of the staff work product in the financial statement reviews

The contractor provides regular informational updates via email on improvements to review and monitoring processes.

No errors in work product allowed.

Weekly or bi-weekly emails and meetings with program manager on recommendati ons and status changes.

PRS # 2

Assess and advise on possible improvements to loan management database via review/audit of functionality after each update by contractor and upload of work product/data by staff.

The contractor provides regular informational updates via email on improvements to review process and maintenance of data in loan management database.

No errors in work product allowed.

Weekly or bi-weekly emails and meetings with program manager on recommendati ons and status changes.