The Purchase Card Program Analysts are responsible for reviewing 100% of NIH's purchase card transactions on a regular basis
Annually participate and execute a more detailed cardholders (CHs) and card approving officials (CAOs) review on 10% of the CHs and CAOs transactions
Determine through data mining those transactions that require further review due to inconsistencies or non-compliance
Responsible for obtaining monthly cycle transaction data from NIH and uploading, processing, and storing the purchase card data
Determine that the data file received from NIH is complete and reconciles, summarizes, and analyzes the transactional data
Request documentation that supports each transaction in question from the cardholder
Review supporting documentation and determine if it is sufficient to support the transaction
Prepare and send a standard letter describing all instances of non-compliance based on information obtained during the transactional review
Participate in developing a schedule for compliance reviews
Responsible for performing reviews using the NIH Purchase Card Checklist and/or CAO Checklist
Prepare and submit individual standardized letters describing instances of non-compliance to the team lead
Participate in preparing a summary report of the findings and a briefing to the respective IC

The Purchase Card Program Analyst must possess a Bachelors Degree in a business or technical field
5 years of related procurement or finance experience
At least two years experience in the purchase card work execution, management and/or oversight
Strong analytical, compliance assessment, teamwork, and written and oral communications skills
Ability to self perform at a high level
Must be able to use an approved data analysis tool
Comply with NIH OIT Certification and Accreditation (C&A) standards
Significant knowledge and working experience with Microsoft word, excel, relational databases, and data mining and manipulation

Purchase Card Program Analyst

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