Program Financial Analyst

Peraton•,

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Program Financial Analyst to join a team of qualified, diverse professionals supporting our Defense Missions Sector. The selected candidate will play a key role in ensuring financial integrity, performance, and compliance of assigned programs. Responsibilities include budget execution, forecasting, invoicing, cost analysis, EAC development, and financial reporting needed to meet contractual and internal requirements. This role requires close collaboration with Program Managers, Contracts, Subcontracts, and internal/external stakeholders to ensure accurate financial management across the program lifecycle.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 5 years relevant experience or 3 years with MS/MA, or 9 years of experience with no degree.
Experience working with financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting, and analysis and incorporating milestone schedules into all activities
Experience providing funding, verifying and approving subcontractor invoices
Experience reviewing and approving travel and invoicing
US Citizenship

Responsibilities

End to end program financial management.
Attend and present program financials at monthly customer program reviews.
Performs complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules needed to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program or programs.
Develops and maintains reporting and analysis systems to guide the financial management of individual programs and contracts to achieve company objectives.
Assesses program performance and tracks the performance against program budgets. Acts as a key technical expert on financial analysis issues. Coordinates, negotiates, and resolves financial compliance issues with various governmental agencies to ensure accurate interpretation of contract requirements.
Establishes and defines program plan requirements for assigned work. Coordinates interdepartmental development of program plans and interfaces with vendors and customers as required.
Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual cost and schedule objectives are met. Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.
Support the development, update and review of the program spend plan twice a week. This includes loading actual costs to date and then coordinating with project managers to create monthly forecast.
Educate Program staff on financial impacts of program changes.
Work with billing department to ensure prompt and accurate monthly invoicing.
Perform monthly variance analysis on program financials.
Monitor spending versus plan and notifies management promptly of any over runs/under runs.
Prepares financial reports, statements, estimates (ETC, EAC), and other program deliverables to ensure effective management.
Monitor the status of financial accounts, ensuring that contract charges accurately reflect the correct labor hours and rates, subcontractor costs and other direct costs (ODCs).
Subcontract accruals management – ensure subcontractor costs are fully accounted.
Interfaces with management, responding to their requests for financial data.
Respond to internal and external audit request.
Support other adhoc reporting and/or activities as needed.
Monitor DSO calculations and take actions to drive cash collection.
Validate Backlog Revenue on a quarterly basis adjusting as needed based on customer spending patterns.
Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.