Senior Associate, Finance

L3Harris•Lynchburg, VA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Support the front end of the business as a financial analyst on bids and proposals going through the Public Safety and Professional Communications Proposal Center. Must be comfortable in a dynamic, fast paced environment with the ability to prioritize and multi-task while working on multiple proposal teams simultaneously.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting Business or related discipline and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience or 2 years post-Secondary/ Associates Degree and a minimum of 6 years of prior related experience.
Graduate Degree or equivalent with 0 to 2 years of prior related experience.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent proposal tasks and prioritize them appropriately.
Self-motivated team player, able to set priorities and manage to deadlines.
Excellent communication and customer service skills.
Minimum intermediate Excel skills including PivotTables, conditional formatting, lookup functions, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

Reviewing and understanding RFP documents for requirements such as base and optional scope, terms and conditions, bonds, customer directed price page format, etc.
Incorporating Bills of Material into the financial template.
Leading proposal cost scrubs, gross margin analysis and cash flow modeling to achieve or exceed the established targets.
Prepare financial charts, address questions, perform what-if analysis during pricing meetings and translate the solution to customer facing price pages.
Educate and prepare Sales to present financial data for internal price reviews and customer facing meetings.
Continue with financial support on post-submittal activities to include customer evaluation questions, oral interviews, scope changes and negotiations.
Upon contract, responsible for revision control and turning over the final “as sold” financial file for execution and implementation.
Take full ownership and accountability on all proposals assigned with the ability to effectively communicate to management on key proposal information, status updates, financials and required approval meetings per the Delegation of Authority.
Metrics, audit support and process improvements.