L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

Program Finance Manager

Corporate Finance & FP&AConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timePalm Bay, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree and at least 9 years of prior relevant experience, or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of prior related experience; alternatively, at least 13 years of prior related experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

Direct the financial control of large and/or complex programs.
Partner with Program Managers and functional teams to establish and maintain program financial plans, perform analyses, and prepare reports to keep contracts within negotiated parameters and government cost-control guidelines.
Lead a team of three individuals performing earned value management and customer reporting on a Cost Plus Award Fee Fixed Fee contract.
Perform financial analyses, including funding profiles, sales outlook, and variance analysis.
Conduct detailed financial analyses to assess program cost and schedule health and support achievement of financial objectives.
Interpret weekly and monthly performance data to provide early indicators of program health.
Monitor program adherence to approved budgets.
Perform monthly financial forecasting and long-range planning for assigned programs, focusing on orders, revenue, profit, and cash flow.
Develop time-phased integrated budgets and schedules, and manage earned-value data compliance and reporting, cost accounting, and cost-and-schedule integration.
Provide management with early warnings of potential performance issues, identify risks, and offer solutions based on knowledge of program financial performance.
Perform budgeting, cost control, variance analysis, internal and external reporting, risk management, and financial support.
Develop quarterly estimate-at-completion projections and analyze or assist with accurate estimates to complete, estimates at completion, and latest revised estimate data.
Educate and lead financial analysts in organizing Work Breakdown Structures and creating and maintaining charge numbers.
Analyze costs and personnel to ensure actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.
Analyze workforce planning, forecasting, and reporting.
Extract and reconcile accounting data.
Generate program financial artifacts, including earned-value reports, graphs, analyses, and customer reports as required.
Develop and present briefings on program financial status to customers.
Educate the Program Management Office and CAMs using internal reports on cost and schedule performance.
Communicate within and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices and processes.
Suggest and implement process-improvement initiatives.
Perform ad hoc analyses, data-integrity checks, and validations related to program financials.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with program finance.
Experience with earned value management systems, including COBRA.
Experience with IPM DAR or CPR 1-7.
Experience with people management.

Job Title: Program Finance Manager

Job Code: 46780

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Manager, Program Finance is responsible for directing the financial control of large and/or complex programs. Works as a key business partner to Program Managers and functional teams to establish and maintain the program’s financial plan, perform analyses, and prepare reports in order to ensure that contracts are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines. Lead a team of 3 individuals to perform full earned value management with full customer reporting on a Cost Plus Award Fee Fixed Fee contract. Performs financial analyses such as funding profiles, sales outlook, and variance analysis. Conducts detailed financial analysis that provide insight into cost and schedule health on a program to ensure financial objectives are met. Interprets performance data on a weekly and monthly basis with the goal of providing early indicators of program health. Monitors program adherence to approved budget. Responsible for monthly financial forecasting and long-range planning of their respective programs, focusing on Orders, Revenue, Profit and Cash Flow.

Essential Functions:

Works under general oversight to develop time-phased integrated budgets and schedules, Earned Value (EV) data compliance and reporting, cost accounting and cost and schedule integration.
Comprehensive knowledge for financial performance of their programs, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, identifying risks and offering solutions.
Budgeting, cost control and variance analysis, internal/external reporting, risk management and financial support.
Development of quarterly EACs; analyze/assist in accurate projection of Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Complete (EAC) and Latest Revised Estimate (LRE) data.
Educate and lead financial analysts with organization of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), creation and maintenance of charge numbers.
Analyze costs and personnel ensuring that actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.
Analyze workforce planning, forecasting and reporting.
Accounting data extraction and reconciliation.
Generate program financial artifacts such as EV reports, graphs, and analysis, as required to include customer reporting.
Develop and present briefing of program financial status to customer.
Educate PMO and CAMS with internal reports on cost and schedule performance.
Communicates within and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices and processes.
Provides suggestions and implementation of new process improvement initiatives.
Perform ad-hoc analysis, data integrity checks, and validations related to program financials.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Experience with Program Finance
Experience with EVMS including COBRA
Experience with IPM DAR or CPR 1-7
Experience with people management

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About the Company

L3Harris Technologies

Global defense contractor delivering aerospace tech

L3Harris Technologies provides advanced aerospace, defense, and space systems for governments and commercial customers. Its products include sensors, communications, and propulsion—such as tactical radios, night-vision gear, satellite payloads, missile defense, and space propulsion—delivered as integrated systems for operations across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company blends legacy technologies from two joining giants with newer capabilities, faster acquisition cycles, and a focus on missiles, space, and resilient communications to field solutions quickly. Its goal is to be a trusted, scale-ready provider of next‑generation defense and intelligence capabilities for national security and related customers.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Melbourne, FL
Founded: 1895

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