Program Finance Manager

Program Finance Manager

Job Category: Finance and Accounting

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:

The is a remote opportunity for local candidates to the Ashburn, VA area.

Program Finance Manager will support a large NASA program in addition to managing a portfolio of other programs and acting as a business partner to the division manager and the PMO team. In this role you will supervise a team of 3-5 PFAs, train, mentor and develop team talent.

You will be responsible for financial analysis, which includes long-term financial planning, management reporting and financial trends and will be responsible for the fiscal year planning process and consolidation, management, and training of the finance team, forecasting and evaluating financial plans, rate impact analysis, preparation and review of EACs, and management reporting. 
 

Responsibilities:

• Duties include creating and tracking annual fiscal plans, Long Range Plan, business cases, reviewing monthly rolling forecast and providing timely updates for associated R&O. 

• Regular interface with accounting, purchasing, contracts and various corporate staff as needed.  

• Maintain contract EAC, prepare contract-billing, and prepare monthly and annual forecast for a small FFP program.

• Comply with financial controls, procedures, system requirements, and forecasting techniques, as directed, to evaluate contract/program status and ensure compliance with government and customer requirements.

• Provide oversight to 3-4 PFAs to ensure cost performance against plans and contractual cost obligations are met. 

• Conduct financial analysis (variance analysis, risk analysis, profit/loss analysis, etc.).

• Primary focus is to ensure Annual Plan and Monthly Forecast submissions are accurately completed by the specified due dates.

• Tracks and troubleshoots DSO for assigned team and their programs.
• Reviews monthly actuals versus forecast and provide variance explanations.  Closely manages PFA team to minimize forecast variances and provide updates in a timely manner if the timing of large ODCs change.
• Reviews, analyze, and advise PMs on price models provided by Pricing Dept. and prepares Business Cases for Milestone reviews.
• May prepare ad hoc ROMs or assist with proposal pricing efforts as needed.

• Assist in standing up new programs as they are awarded and staffing them appropriately.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance or a related field.
• A minimum of 8 years of professional work experience of with a minimum of 5 years in project related finance planning and analysis.
• Adhere to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Sarbanes-Oxley and all corporate and contractual policies and procedures as they relate to contract financials.
• Must be well experienced with Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, SUMIF, PIVOT Tables, etc.).
• Ability to understand contracts of various types (T&M, FFP, CPF, etc.)
• Familiar with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)
• Experience working with federal civilian or DOD personnel, including geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders is preferred but not required.
• Experience with accounting software and development of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS)
• Experience with Deltek Costpoint, IBM COGNOS, and Oracle CAPS, Smartview, MS Query is highly desired.

Professional Skills:

• High level interpersonal skills and be able to interact and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to effectively present information to senior leadership in a clear, concise manner
• Ability to identify root causes and solve business problems; isolate trends and identify problems.
• Bring a customer service-oriented approach to management in a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks with a sustained high level of attention to det