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Syzygy Integration

Integrated communications and engineering solutions provider

Financial Analyst

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's
Conshohocken, PA, USA
In Person
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required

About the job

Requirements
  • A degree in accounting, finance, or business administration with relevant work experience in financial analysis is preferred.
  • Must be comfortable working in a government contracting environment where funding cycles and compliance requirements drive decisions.
  • Must have advanced Excel proficiency.
  • Experience with Concur, TSheets, Bill.com, JIRA, and QuickBooks, or willingness to learn them.
Responsibilities
  • Act as the financial owner for programs from initiation through completion.
  • Own overall program budgets across the company.
  • Maintain rolling forecasts across labor, materials, other direct costs, and travel.
  • Set up baseline budgets, cost structures, and obligations during kickoffs and for ongoing programs.
  • Monitor and maintain chargeability of individuals and groups and long-term funding forecasts.
  • Track actuals versus budget versus forecast to identify performance trends.
  • Flag risks such as underfunded labor, overspending on other direct costs or travel, and tasks trending toward cost overruns.
  • Evaluate the long-term sustainability of funding streams, especially in government contracts where option years and recompetes affect continuity.
  • Identify budget opportunities to reduce spending or replicate successful approaches elsewhere in the portfolio.
  • Analyze chargeability rates to identify underutilized personnel or areas of overcapacity.
  • Highlight key performance indicators such as gross margin, backlog burn, and funding-to-expenditure ratios.
  • Work with Business Development teams to translate pipeline opportunities into forward-looking financial projections.
  • Translate program managers' scope and schedule roadmaps into financial requirements, including budgets, Estimate-to-Complete models, and Estimate-at-Completion models.
  • Ensure proposed pursuits align with internal staffing and funding availability and identify gaps.
  • Create what-if financial models assessing the impact of contract wins, extensions, losses, or different courses of action on executing programs.
  • Monitor burn rates and ensure programs remain aligned with contractual funding and delivery schedules.
  • Prepare internal and external financial reporting for labor, hardware, other direct costs, and travel.
  • Provide leadership with visibility into profitability and margins by contract, business unit, and portfolio.
  • Build weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting packages for leadership.
  • Present findings clearly and turn financial data into actionable insights.
  • Support external reporting requirements, including contract deliverables, audits, and customer status updates.
  • Develop real-time dashboards tracking metrics for leadership and program teams.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience operating in a smaller company, wearing many hats, and achieving operational goals.
  • Ability to balance analytical rigor with explaining the financial story in plain language.
  • Proactive identification of risks and opportunities and communication to appropriate company personnel.
  • Experience with or willingness to learn Concur, TSheets, Bill.com, JIRA, and QuickBooks.

About the company

Syzygy Integration provides integrated communications and engineering solutions aligned to customer needs. It starts by understanding requirements and then designs and implements end-to-end systems across hardware, software, and cloud with cross-disciplinary teams. The company differentiates itself with a single end-to-end capability set—from mobile networks to cloud—plus expertise in TAK and sensor/RF design, all coordinated around the stated requirements. Its goal is to help customers achieve reliable, maintainable communications and engineering systems that fit their operational needs.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • DIU awarded Syzygy a June 2026 counter-drone contract, validating Snap-E-AI-RTR.
  • CBP issued a 2026 follow-on forecast worth $50 million to $100 million.
  • Syzygy’s prior CBP vehicle reached $20.2 million obligated, proving repeat federal revenue.

What critics are saying

  • DIU success depends on Vizgard partnership; losing Vizgard kills the edge retraining story.
  • Syzygy has never raised funding, limiting hiring, product hardening, and acquisition flexibility.
  • Bryan Harris sued Syzygy in 2022 over trade secrets; talent leakage remains a threat.

What makes Syzygy Integration unique

  • Snap-E-AI-RTR retrains counter-drone models on-device, cutting updates from weeks to hours.
  • AwareX integrates ATAK and iTAK workflows for field operators, not back-office analysts.
  • CBP kept Syzygy as incumbent on C-NET through September 2031.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays

Company News

Unmanned Systems Technology
Jun 11th, 2026
DIU contract advances rapid edge AI retraining for counter-drone systems.

DIU contract advances rapid edge AI retraining for counter-drone systems. Vizgard and Syzygy Integration will demonstrate localized AI retraining capabilities designed to reduce response timelines from weeks to hours By Summer James / 11 Jun 2026 Follow UST The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has awarded a contract to Vizgard and Syzygy Integration LLC to demonstrate rapid counter-drone artificial intelligence retraining and optimisation directly on edge devices. Traditional methods for improving deployed AI models require extracting operational data, transferring it to analysts and data scientists, and waiting weeks for updated models. Under the new initiative, retraining and optimisation will be demonstrated on Syzygy's Snap-E-AI-RTR edge devices, ensuring no data leaves the device and removing cloud dependency. Operators will be able to flag performance issues from ATAK and iTAK within Syzygy's AwareX capability and deploy a retrained model within hours. The contract also includes sub-classification capabilities, enabling identification of the make and manufacturer of detected uncrewed aerial system platforms alongside payload alerting. This allows operators to move from basic drone detection to more detailed real-time intelligence. The effort builds on a partnership between the two companies that began in 2023, with Vizgard's FortifAI already deployed operationally across Syzygy's autonomous sensor programs. Wesley Mitchell, CEO of Syzygy, commented, "We've operated on the southern border and done counter-drone long enough to know that the model you deploy on day one isn't the model you need by month three. Being able to retrain and optimise directly at the edge on SNAP, without moving sensitive operational data off-device, changes how we respond as the threat picture evolves. Vizgard and Syzygy's integration makes that possible." According to the companies, deploying artificial intelligence without a retraining mechanism can leave operators relying on sub-optimal models that distract rather than support. By generating annotated and cleaned datasets directly within the operational system, the integrated workflow is intended to remove traditional processing bottlenecks and provide operators with tools to verify and retrain models at the edge. Edge-Based Visual AI Software Platform for Defence & Security Camera Automation