PROGRAM FINANCE MANAGER (AEROSPACE)

Marvin Group • Inglewood, CA

10d • $125,000 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Program Finance Manager supports supply chain finance for an aerospace and defense business. The role develops and executes cost and financial strategies to optimize supply chain performance, manage risk, and ensure compliance with government regulations including FAR and DFARS. It collaborates with cross-functional teams and senior leadership to align financial goals with program objectives. This position is 100% onsite in Inglewood and typically involves 10% travel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline.
• 5–7+ years of experience in Supply Chain Finance, Cost Accounting, and FP&A within the Aerospace and Defense industry.
• Deep understanding of MRP, Shop Floor Control Systems, BOM structures, inventory management principles, and manufacturing cost accounting.
• Proven ability to build complex financial models incorporating cost-reduction curves, learning curves, and manufacturing scaling assumptions.
• Strong experience with variance analysis, cost reconciliation, and root cause analysis in manufacturing and supply chain environments.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve data integrity issues in complex ERP/MRP environments such as SAP ECC 6.0 or SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience with SAP Business Warehouse, Power Query, Power Pivots, and Power BI for querying, analyzing, and validating data from SAP/ERP systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail and data accuracy, and strong communication abilities to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Must meet export control compliance requirements and qualify as a U.S. person under ITAR.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategic goals for material financial planning, materials spend management, priced BOM and CBOM materials budgets, and reporting cost performance against established budgets.
• Support forward pricing rate development, supply chain cost center budgeting, program direct material budgeting, the annual operating plan, and strategic business planning as required.
• Drive end-to-end cost improvements for contract direct and departmental overhead costs, including management of bidding and proposal costs, working cross-functionally with Procurement, Operations, PMOs, Sales Development and Proposals, Inventory, Engineering, Materials, and Warehousing management.
• Establish frameworks for tracking and analyzing inventory movements, ensuring accuracy and alignment with MRP systems, and ensuring material management accounting, general ledger, and cost element costs are properly charged.
• Oversee BOM-to-MRP comparison and reconciliation efforts to ensure material requirements align with R&D Engineering and Production plans in support of Supply Chain and Operations management.
• Participate in root cause analysis of cost variances between actual manufacturing consumption rates and BOM standards, and ensure corrective actions flow down to lower material part numbers and commodity-responsible Buyers.
• Build and maintain cost models incorporating cost-reduction and improvement curves by quantity across product lines and commodities to extrapolate discrete unit costs and scaling assumptions over time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager