Program Financial Analyst

Overview

This role supports the operational advantage of the US Navy's Undersea Warfare community by analyzing acoustic data sets to derive qualitative and quantitative technical measurements. The position is for a Program Financial Analyst responsible for ensuring financial integrity, performance, and compliance of assigned defense programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end program financial activities including budget execution, forecasting, invoicing, cost analysis, and financial reporting.
• Present program financials at monthly customer program reviews.
• Perform complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules to meet contractual and project requirements.
• Develop and maintain reporting and analysis systems to guide financial management of programs and contracts.
• Assess program performance against budgets and act as a technical expert on financial analysis issues.
• Coordinate, negotiate, and resolve financial compliance issues with governmental agencies.
• Establish program plan requirements and coordinate interdepartmental development of program plans.
• Monitor and report performance against plans to ensure contractual cost and schedule objectives are met.
• Support development, update, and review of the program spend plan twice weekly, including loading actual costs and coordinating monthly forecasts with project managers.
• Educate program staff on financial impacts of program changes.
• Collaborate with billing to ensure prompt and accurate monthly invoicing.
• Perform monthly variance analysis on program financials.
• Monitor spending versus plan and promptly notify management of any overruns or underruns.
• Prepare financial reports, statements, estimates (ETC, EAC), and other deliverables.
• Monitor financial accounts to ensure contract charges accurately reflect labor hours, rates, subcontractor costs, and other direct costs.
• Manage subcontract accruals to ensure full accounting of subcontractor costs.
• Respond to management requests for financial data.
• Support internal and external audit requests.
• Assist with ad hoc reporting and activities as needed.
• Monitor Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) calculations and take actions to drive cash collection.
• Validate backlog revenue quarterly and adjust based on customer spending patterns.
• Provide key program metric reporting to senior management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5 years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 3 years of experience, or 9 years of experience without a degree.
• Experience with budgeting, auditing, forecasting, financial analysis, and incorporating milestone schedules.
• Experience providing funding and verifying and approving subcontractor invoices.
• Experience reviewing and approving travel and invoicing.
• U.S. Citizenship.

Compensation & Benefits

• Target salary range: $80,000 - $128,000, determined by factors including experience, education, skills, geographic location, and contract considerations.
• Eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses may apply.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings account, short/long term disability, employee assistance program, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.

Location

Position supports defense missions sector; specific location details are not provided.