Senior Specialist - Program Finance, Proposal Pricing

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Proposal Pricing
Job Code: 44752
Job Location: Palm Bay, FL or Alpharetta, GA
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 purpose of this position is to work with the SAS1 Centralized Pricing Team Space & Mission Systems (SMS) Segment, to allow the organization to make effective decisions regarding bid and proposal efforts. The analyst will be responsible for ensuring that proposals are created in accordance with organizational policies, customer requirements and regulatory requirements and will assist in the preparation of management review materials. The role also supports cross-functional coordination by collaborating with finance, contracts, and program teams to ensure pricing accuracy, compliance, and timely proposal submission.

Essential Functions:

• Review Request for Proposals (RFP) and Statement of Work (SOW) for specific cost requirements to assist in developing proposal pricing structure and to identify any cost and pricing concerns arising from the RFP and/or SOW
• Assist the proposal team with creation of WBS structure that supports RFP and internal costing requirements
• Work with all estimators on the development of cost estimates and associated basis of those estimates. Will review such cost estimates and basis of estimates (BOEs) to ensure accuracy and adequacy of the estimate and BOEs
• Develop cost/price volume in compliance with the RFP, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS)
• Responsible for preparation of financial portion of management review materials
• Review cost/price with functional leadership and senior leadership
• Support negotiating team from fact finding activities through to final contract acceptance. These activities may include such things as preparing and providing responses to fact find or audit questions, assessing cost and pricing impacts of changes (e.g., scope, rates, estimates), updating proposals for changes, etc.
• Assisting in process improvement initiatives and integration activities as necessary with focus on ensuring compliance to business systems requirements
• Support all internal and external audits
• Assisting with ad hoc requests and special projects
• Experience with FAR and DFARS
• Able to work with limited day-to-day supervision
• Travel to locations outside of Palm Bay, FL on an as-needed basis
• Ability to obtain Secret Clearance 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• 3 - 4 years in the aerospace and government contracting industry with exhibited progression
• Knowledge of defense contractor proposal processes
• Experience with FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations) and DFARS
• Experience working with DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) & DCMA (Defense Contract Management Agency)
• Proven proactive, self-starter with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Experience utilizing communication and interpersonal skills to interact with all levels of the organization
• ProPricer experience a plus

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