Cost Allocation / Indirect Cost Consultant

AlphaGov (Casa Moon LLC d/b/a AlphaGov) delivers public-sector consulting for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans classification and compensation, organizational and operational studies, research and program evaluation, economic and workforce analysis, surveys and community research, and applied data and infrastructure research.

We engage experienced practitioners as project-based collaborators. Engagements are remote-first with occasional client travel. When you authorize it, AlphaGov may name you as an expert collaborator or key personnel on proposals that match your expertise. We build ready teams for live pursuits — not speculative staffing banks.

This opportunity is contingent upon contract award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal.

AlphaGov is seeking a Cost Allocation / Indirect Cost Consultant for remote, project-based work with public agencies. There is no guaranteed assignment.

What you'll do:
Support cost-allocation plans, indirect-cost rates, and the narratives that explain them
Trace which costs are direct, allocated, or unallowable for the agency's funding mix
Review the agency's chart of accounts and allocation bases against the plan
Draft or update a central-service or indirect-cost plan the finance office can defend
Identify the documentation an auditor or cognizant agency would ask to see
Contribute methods and past-performance narrative to proposals only when naming is authorized
State the circulars, federal guides, or local policies you used, and do not invent a rate

Apply to be considered.

Requirements

Required:

- Hands-on SAP delivery for a government or other public-sector organization, as a functional lead or senior consultant
- Depth in at least one of SAP public-sector finance, procurement, payroll, grants, or funds management
- Experience with testing, data conversion, and cutover on an SAP project
- Able to explain your work in a proposal narrative without overstating your role
- Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with Required:

Hands-on Oracle Cloud, Oracle E-Business Suite, or PeopleSoft delivery as a functional lead or senior consultant

Depth in at least one of finance, HCM, payroll, procurement, or grants

Experience with testing, conversion, and cutover

Able to name the product and version you delivered, not a generic ERP claim

Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasiRequired:

- Hands-on HRIS or payroll-system implementation for an employer with complex pay rules, as a functional lead or senior consultant
- Experience with employee data conversion, parallel payroll testing, and cutover
- Familiarity with position control, time entry, and earnings and deduction setup
- Able to name the HRIS or payroll product you delivered
- Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel
- Nice to have:
- Required:

- Experience managing a public-sector study, system implementation, or multi-workstream consulting engagement through delivery
- A record of written deliverables an agency actually received, not only meeting facilitation
- Comfort coordinating subject-matter specialists and agency staff
- Able to describe the agency, your role, and the outcome of at least two engagements
- Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel

Nice to have:

- Work with cities, counties, school systems, utilities, or special districts
- Experience on classification, compensation, organizatioRequired:

Experience leading an organizational assessment or operating-model engagement for an employer, through a written deliverable

Facilitation of leadership or employee sessions, with notes the client could use

Ability to write findings, options, and an implementation sequence in plain language

At least two engagements you can describe by organization type, your role, and the result

Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel

Nice to have:

- Public-sector or school-system organizational work
- Experience connecting organization design to classificaRequired:

Experience facilitating an organizational strategic plan through adoption, for a government, district, agency, or nonprofit

A plan you can name by organization, year, and your role

Ability to turn session output into goals, strategies, and a written roadmap

Experience presenting to a board, council, or executive team

Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel

Nice to have:

- Work that included an implementation scorecard or progress reviews after adoption
- Experience with a school board, city council, or public aRequired:

Experience managing or advising post-award grants administration for a public agency or pass-through entity

Working knowledge of allowability, matching, reporting, and subrecipient monitoring

At least two grant programs or agencies you can describe, including your role

Ability to write procedures a grants office can use

Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel

Nice to have:

- Uniform Guidance experience on federal pass-through funds
- Experience with a grants management system used by a city, county, state, or school systemuthoritytion or staffing studiesnal, ERP, or grants engagementsRequired:

- Experience preparing or updating a cost-allocation plan or indirect-cost rate for a government or other public agency
- Ability to explain the allocation base and which departments or funds were included
- At least one plan or rate proposal you can describe by agency, year, and your role
- Comfort reading a chart of accounts and a fund structure
- Comfortable as a 1099 project-based collaborator, with occasional client travel

Nice to have:

- A negotiated indirect-cost rate agreement you supported
- Experience with 2 CFR Part 200 or a state cognizant-agency review

Public-sector or school-system payroll, including bargaining-unit pay rules

Work across more than one HRIS product, not only a single vendoronal client travel

Nice to have:

- Public-sector Oracle or PeopleSoft work for a city, county, state, school system, or university
- Experience migrating PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloudoccasional client travel

Nice to have:

- SAP work for a city, county, state, school system, or utility
- A current or prior SAP certification relevant to the modules above