Job Description

The Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Specialist II will develop and maintain proposal costing models, develop financial forecasts, track cost and schedule performance, and perform variance analysis for reporting of projects/programs in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading and developing new business proposals
• Generating cost volumes for proposals
• Designing and developing Cost Models and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs)
• Creating and presenting cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership
• Providing budget and financial artifacts for program startup
• Generating monthly Integrated Program Management Reports (IPMR) and Quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs)
• Acting as the subject matter expert for financial performance of programs
• Interfacing with Executive Management, Program Management, Accounting, Functional Leads, and customers
• Preparing monthly forecasts outlooks
• Providing financial analysis for audits and other financial activities
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets/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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related
• 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
• Understanding of EVMS principles and Program Baseline Planning
• Ability to analyze data and synthesize complexity into clarity
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with various departments
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• 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)

Benefits

• No benefits