Specialist - Program Finance

Job Title: Specialist, Program Finance 

Job Code: 46758

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

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

Our Financial Analysts play a key role in keeping our departments and programs on track. Utilizing Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and financial metrics to keep all projects and programs moving in the same direction with accurate and complete information for internal financial tracking and to customers. We are seeking a proactive, self-starter with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.  Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to collaborate with key functional stakeholders including Program Management, Operations, Engineering and Supply Chain. Ideal candidate must be detail oriented with good organizational skills and capable of multi-tasking with the ability to work with general day-to-day supervision.  Successful candidates will demonstrate an aptitude for efficiency, problem-solving, and resourcefulness, with a commitment to quality while developing their leadership skills as a key business partner.

Essential Functions:

• Works under general supervision to develop time-phased integrated budgets and schedules, Earned Value (EV) data compliance and reporting, cost accounting and cost and schedule integration.
• Broad knowledge of 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.
• Maintain monthly financial forecasts for projects assigned for anticipated Awards, Sales, Profit and Cash Flow including variance explanations to prior forecast.
• Creation and maintenance of charge numbers.
• Analyze costs and personnel ensuring actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.
• Analyze workforce planning, forecasting and reporting.
• Accounting data extraction and reconciliation.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant program finance experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related program finance experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related program finance experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• A broad experience and understanding with business financial management techniques for government contracts, earned value analysis, cost analysis, financial planning, cash flow to include cost type and fixed price with performance-based-payments/billing milestones and liquidated payments.
• Knowledge of Earned Value and EVMS.
• Experience and skills with MS Excel and general experience with other MS OFFICE tools.
• Experience with creating financial forecasts.
• DoD contractor experience.

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