Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Specialist II

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading and developing new business proposals, including coordination, collection and analysis of cost and schedule from multi-functional departments.
• Generating cost volumes for proposals in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications and other pricing/cost requirements.
• Designing and developing Cost Models and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) for proposals working with senior engineering staff to generate basis of estimates based on work breakdown structures.
• Creating and presenting cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership.
• Providing budget and financial artifacts for program startup culminating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
• Working closely with program management to help generate monthly Integrated Program Management Reports (IPMR), Quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs).
• Acting as the subject matter expert for financial performance of their programs, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, identifying risks and offering solutions.
• Interfacing with Executive Management, Program Management, Accounting, Functional Leads, and customers as the primary source of all financial information for the programs they support.
• Preparing monthly forecasts outlooks for Orders, Sales, EBIT, Cash and Working Capital.
• Providing financial analysis for audits and other financial activities including Interfacing with DCAA and Customers for joint surveillance reviews (JSRs).
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward. 
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data.
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways the company could utilize cash. 
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets/forecasts and consolidate into corporate budget/forecasts.
• Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts. 
• Extracting Big Data sets and consolidating them into useful analytics. 
• Developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related from an accredited university or college. 
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience developing and implementing financial budgets and forecasts.
• Experience in developing cost volumes, basis of estimates (BOEs), and roll-ups of non-recurring efforts (NREs), recurring efforts (REs), and materials.
• Understanding of EVMS principles and Program Baseline Planning.
• Ability to analyze data and synthesize complexity into clarity for decision-making. 
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales and other departments. 
• A desire to have a broader impact and make meaningful contributions as our small company grows by creating novel financial and business insights.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with ability to effectively convey data into information with various levels of management, peers, and customers.
• Must have persistence and tenacity to meet deadlines in a challenging, multi-tasking environment.
• Ability to identify risks, evaluate the probability and magnitude, and implement risk mitigating strategies
• Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in a start-up, high-growth, and venture-backed company