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3451 Financial Management Resource Analyst

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Overview

A Financial Management Resource Analyst performs accounting, budgeting, and other financial management duties for appropriated funds supporting operating forces and supporting establishments. The analyst maintains and reconciles official records, enters cost accounting data, analyzes financial systems, and builds reports and data models to support forecasts and recommendations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: EL 110 or GT 110

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • General ledger control and account reconciliation
  • Cost accounting data setup in financial systems
  • Financial data modeling and forecast preparation
  • Internal control and financial process improvement

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Budget Analysts

Appropriated-fund budgeting, cost accounting, and financial forecasting transfer directly to expenditure analysis and budget planning.

How to prepare: Build a sample monthly budget analysis in Microsoft Excel using fictional data, explaining expenditure trends and recommended adjustments. This path typically involves bachelor's-level preparation, though employers may accept relevant experience or alternative preparation.

What the civilian work involves
  • Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports to maintain expenditure controls.
  • Provide advice and technical assistance with cost analysis, fiscal allocation, and budget preparation.
  • Review operating budgets to analyze trends affecting budget needs.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Power BI

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Maintaining and reconciling official accounting records, controlling the general ledger, and entering cost data align with accounting recordkeeping and accuracy checks.

How to prepare: Practice entering transactions and reconciling a sample ledger in Intuit QuickBooks, documenting how you identify and correct posting errors.

What the civilian work involves
  • Operate computers programmed with accounting software to record, store, and analyze information.
  • Check figures, postings, and documents for correct entry, mathematical accuracy, and proper codes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Intuit QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Excel

Accountants and Auditors

General ledger control, financial systems analysis, and recommendations for stronger internal controls provide a foundation for accounting systems review and control analysis.

How to prepare: Compare your completed coursework with an accounting bachelor's curriculum to identify gaps in civilian accounting procedures and auditing. Bachelor's-level preparation, particularly accounting education, is typical, but employer-specific experience or alternative entry routes may be available.

What the civilian work involves
  • Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, duplicated effort, extravagance, fraud, or non-compliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
  • Inspect account books and accounting systems for efficiency, effectiveness, and use of accepted accounting procedures to record transactions.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Intuit QuickBooks

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 3451

    [1] MOS 3451 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 43904; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: General ledger control and account reconciliation, Cost accounting data setup in financial systems, Financial data modeling and forecast preparation, Internal control and financial process improvement, Budget Analysts (O*NET 13-2031.00), Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00), Accountants and Auditors (O*NET 13-2011.00)

  2. O*NET: Budget Analysts

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Budget Analysts (O*NET 13-2031.00)

  3. O*NET: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks (O*NET 43-3031.00)

  4. O*NET: Accountants and Auditors

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Accountants and Auditors (O*NET 13-2011.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 3451

Descriptions may be summarized for clarity. Verify all information with your branch career counselor or official military documentation before making career decisions.

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