Principal Program Financial Analyst
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Job ref:
10561
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Location:
Fitchburg, United States
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Sector:
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Contact:
Lissa Jerez
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Published:
over 1 year ago
Job Responsibilities
- Providing guidance and direction to development, maintenance and analysis of the financial activity, scheduling and performance measurement data for the program.
- Leading and/or performing financial planning and analysis for a complex program of moderate to large size, or several smaller programs for an organization or LOB
- Developing and analyzing financial reports and communicate financial issues/risks.
- Applying critical thinking to assist management in identifying risk and developing risk mitigation strategies
- Conducting internal training sessions on relevant financial topics within area of expertise
- Maintaining business relationships with and serve as point of contact with government, commercial, foreign and domestic customers
- Supporting negotiations with the government, industry prime contractors and foreign customers
- Providing oversight of global linearity of manufacturing activities and forecasting, track cost-down initiatives across assigned programs and Line of Business
- Participating in acquisition planning strategies including: the definition of contract requirements and risks, and, market research
- Supporting proposal preparations including: bid/no-bid requirements; cost estimating; pricing and negotiation
- Understanding source selection evaluation process to include cost and price analysis, discussions, debriefings and protest
- Mentoring, training and providing work leadership to less-experienced Financial Analysts
- Supporting, communicating, reinforcing and defending the mission, values and culture of the organization
- Ability to interact effectively at all levels and across diverse cultures
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting or related field and at least eight years of progressive experience in a government manufacturing environment
- Strong grasp of generally accepted accounting principles and an in-depth working knowledge of the cost accounting standards (CAS) and IFRS
- Strong contract compliance knowledge
- Strong leadership and developmental skills
- Understand advanced financial analysis principles and have financial analysis skills
- Ability to mentor and train others
- Ability to guide difficult analysis on programs
- Working knowledge of IR&D/B&P/direct sell and allowable vs. unallowable cost
- Strong communicator of financial issues/risks to non-financial personnel