Senior Program Control and Accounting Analyst

Senior Program Control and Accounting Analyst

Job Category: Finance and Accounting

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Top Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

CACI is currently looking for an outstanding candidate to join our CORE Labs Finance team.  This position will provide lead financial support and coordination on a complex contract/program, support the PM staff with the more complex financial analysis and reporting requirements (i.e. serve as the lead for cost variance analysis and reporting, monthly corporate forecast, EAC’s, cost baselines, tracking annual fiscal plans and monthly updates, maintaining contract budgets) and provide mentoring to the junior project control staff on various program control functions.

 

Overview:

The Program Control and Accounting Analyst is an individual contributor supporting an assigned portfolio of projects.  He or she functions as an effective business partner to support the various program managers in providing financial support and analysis for planning, forecasting and decision making and overall delivery of financial commitments. Ability to effectively utilize corporate systems such as Deltek Costpoint, Cognos, Hyperion (CAPS), Excel SmartView, and other internal systems to obtain relevant financial data for analysis in support of program financial performance management.

Job Responsibilities:

The Program Control and Accounting function is responsible for all program financials, including management and review of cost, funding, labor charging, program risk management, ETC/EAC analysis, all forecasting and internal reporting including responding to Corp and Sector Data requests.  The Program Control and Accounting Analyst will operate as a single point of contact to the PM for all finance and accounting issues, more specifically:

• Support the development of annual operating plans and forecasts and supports monthly quarterly and annual updates
• Identify and quantify any potential Risks and Opportunities not in the forecast
• Support the monthly business rhythms of both the program and finance organizations
• Participating in and supports meetings and program reviews (PMRs)
• Perform financial analysis in support of ongoing program management
• Develop accurate and timely monthly performance reports for the programs and projects.
• Responsible for providing lead level financial support to Program Managers in the preparation and analysis of complex project financial data and other complex contract, project or business related task.
• Develops financial controls, procedures, systems, and forecasting techniques to evaluate contract/program status and ensure compliance with government and customer requirements.
• Monitors progress of program requirements. Monitors cost performance against plans to ensure contractual cost obligations are met.
• Track and identify program funding risks and initiate Risk Level Authorizations in a timely manner
• Prepares complex financial/administrative reports and distributes to customers/user organizations.
• Conducts complex financial analysis (variance analysis, risk analysis, profit/loss analysis, etc.)
• Liaison between operations and other administrative support organizations on financial issues. Interfaces with subcontractors, vendors, and customers and performs extensive investigations as required.
• Provides guidance and work leadership to less-experienced analysts. May review the work of others and can detect errors or needed modifications.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or a related discipline, plus min 7 years of related experience.
• Knowledge of Deltek Costpoint, Hyperion, CAPS/SmartView, COGNOS
• Must have experience performing program control & financial analysis support
• Must have experience performing variance analysis, cost baseline preparation and reviews, break-even, and other ad hoc analysis
• Must have intermediate knowledge of MS Excel, cost collection, invoicing, and revenue recognition
• Experienced in working collaboratively with cross-functional teams

Desired Requirements:

• Intermediate MS Excel skills such as pivot tables, filters, sumifs and vlookups to work with large data sets to perform analysis and monthly manual spreadsheet report in support of monthly invoice
• Bachelor’s Degree in a business field
• 5+ years program control & financial management experience in a government contracting environment

What We Can Offer You:
- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that a