Program Finance Manager
About The Position
The Program Finance Manager directs financial control for large and/or complex programs and serves as a key business partner to Program Managers and functional teams. The role establishes and maintains program financial plans, performs analysis, and prepares reports to help ensure contracts meet negotiated parameters and government cost-control guidelines. The manager leads a team of three in full earned value management and customer reporting for a Cost Plus Award Fee Fixed Fee contract. The position conducts financial analyses, including funding profiles, sales outlooks, and variance analysis, and provides insight into program cost and schedule health. It interprets weekly and monthly performance data to provide early indicators of program health, monitors adherence to approved budgets, and manages monthly financial forecasting and long-range planning focused on Orders, Revenue, Profit, and Cash Flow.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 9 years of relevant experience; or a graduate degree and at least 7 years of related experience; or, in lieu of a degree, at least 13 years of related experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Program Finance.
- Experience with EVMS, including COBRA.
- Experience with IPM DAR or CPR 1-7.
- Experience with people management.
Responsibilities
- Develop time-phased integrated budgets and schedules, Earned Value (EV) data compliance and reporting, cost accounting, and cost and schedule integration.
- Assess program financial performance, alert management to potential performance issues, identify risks, and offer solutions.
- Support budgeting, cost control, variance analysis, internal and external reporting, risk management, and financial activities.
- Develop quarterly EACs and analyze or assist with accurate projections of Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Complete (EAC), and Latest Revised Estimate (LRE) data.
- Educate and lead financial analysts in organizing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) and creating and maintaining charge numbers.
- Analyze costs and personnel to ensure actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.
- Analyze workforce planning, forecasting, and reporting.
- Extract and reconcile accounting data.
- Generate program financial artifacts, including EV reports, graphs, analysis, and customer reporting as required.
- Prepare and present briefings on program financial status to customers.
- Educate PMO and CAMS on internal reports covering cost and schedule performance.
- Communicate within and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices and processes.
- Suggest and implement process improvement initiatives.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis, data integrity checks, and validations related to program financials.
- Monitor program adherence to approved budgets and perform monthly financial forecasting and long-range planning focused on Orders, Revenue, Profit, and Cash Flow.
- Lead a team of three in full earned value management and customer reporting for a Cost Plus Award Fee Fixed Fee contract.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
