Job Purpose:

 

As Vice President - Finance, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight for the development and implementation of finance and business operations and operate as a key stakeholder in business growth and strategic planning for a defined business area. You will act as a strategic partner to business area leadership with specific focused responsibility for long-range financial planning, budget preparation, cost control and oversight, business resource planning and tracking, and ensuring financial program performance is achieved for the business unit/area portfolio. You will direct financial program portfolio status and overall organizational business management by supporting project/ program budgeting, program scheduling, indirect cost budgeting and tracking, and measuring/reporting financial progress to achieve organizational goals. This position is accountable to the CFO and closely partnered with the President through a strong dotted-line relationship, ensuring both financial stewardship and segment leadership alignment.

 

Job Responsibilities:

 

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following values: Albany Wins Together, Count on Each Other, Own Your Actions, Care about Each Other, Share Your Enthusiasm

• Serve as a business partner and source of insightful, innovative business guidance and counsel to the President of AEC, the CFO and the Chief Executive Officer.
• Lead responsibility for the segment’s annual operating plan process, quarterly updates to current year forecast, and long-range financial forecasts.
• Play a key role in supporting new business development, including financial projections.
• Ensure the accurate and timely completion of monthly financial statements, in accordance with the Company’s accounting manual.
• Lead the staff and business processes that support the collection, organization, analysis and reporting of the financial information required for sound decision making by AEC’s management.

 Essential Functions:

• Hands on management of the Finance function. 
• Management of accounting practices and related internal controls to ensure compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR/DFARS), US Government Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and other Contractor Business Systems requirements. 
• Lead the preparation and support negotiation of forward pricing rates and incurred costs claims, as applicable.
• Provide guidance to Program Managers, Technical Leads, and segment leadership related to financial performance of contracts.
• Oversight of program financials for Orders, Sales, EBIT, and Cash including preparation of financial reports and briefings to leadership.
• Responsible for influencing day-to-day execution of all financial activity related to Programs, Proposals, Reviews, including the development of strategies necessary to achieve program financial goals.
• Oversight of Program Finance organization, to include: development of time-phased budgets following contract award; establishment of key performance metrics and milestones; ongoing reporting of Program(s) cost and schedule variances in accordance with company policy; ETC/EAC preparation and review, analysis and monitoring; maintenance and reporting of timely performance data to division management team as well as customer; investigation of financial irregularities; financial program compliance; prepare milestone invoices and analyze program cash forecast.
• Oversight of EVM responsibilities, to include Analysis of earned value metrics and concepts; ability to identify issues based on results; work with Control Account Managers and Program Managers to help interpret the data into meaningful information; ability to train on EV concepts and coordinate inputs across multiple functional organizations, help analyze variance analysis inputs.
• Comprehensive knowledge of U.S. GAAP, accounting closing and reporting procedures, long term contract accounting and Finance and Accounting systems best practices.
• Finance and accounting experience within public accounting firms and/or publicly held companies is strongly preferred, as is Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance, SEC reporting and disclosure experience and government contracting compliance.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Prior proven leadership experience
• Expertise on CAS, FAR, DFARS to ensure business practices ar