Senior Manager of Military Costing

Airbus • Columbus, MS

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Airbus is looking for a Senior Manager of Military Costing to lead the financial architecture for critical domestic and international government proposals. This role reports to the Head of Costing and Offer Evaluation and requires expertise in FAR 12/15 regulations and experience mentoring high-performing teams. The ideal candidate will bridge complex federal regulations with business profitability. The Finance and Accounting team, which this role is part of, requires excellent analytical and communication skills to manage the financial portfolio, providing key analytics from month-end closing to performance management analysis. The team is cross-functional and international, suitable for analytical, detail-oriented individuals with a passion for numbers.

Requirements

• BS Accounting or Finance or equivalent in experience and education
• Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience preparing FAR 12 type U.S. Government Proposals
• Understanding of FAR 12 commercial item contract requirements
• Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word

Responsibilities

• Oversees cost and pricing for a range of proposals to include both domestic and international opportunities and ranging in size of complexity.
• Ensure costing information provided is timely, accurate and supportable in response to requests.
• Act as primary point of contact for company responses to U.S. Government agency (i.e. DCAA) audits.
• Collaborates with other departments to gather information needed in a timely fashion to meet deadlines.
• Able to garner information needed from other departments in a timeline fashion to meet deadlines.
• Ensures functional areas understand what substantiation is required to support their estimates for each proposal.
• Create business cases which provide management sufficient cost, margin and price information and analysis for proposed and established prices to support business decisions.
• Leads finance offer evaluation process to retrieve approvals needed for release of offer.
• Manage, develop, mentor and coach staff to ensure staff exhibit company core values and behaviors, interact professionally with the team/company/external parties, and maintain and/or improve those skills and knowledge necessary to adequately perform their assigned jobs.
• Provides training as needed to colleagues on templates that could be used for gathering costing information for proposals.
• Foster innovative mind-set in order to continually improve processes and ways of working.
• Creates basis of estimates (BOE) for proposals, if required, as justification for pricing to customer.
• Ability to train team and colleagues on the use of BOEs for proposal development.
• Contribute to writing of pricing content in proposals submitted to the customer.
• Meets company internal and customer external requirements necessary for contract negotiations and award.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
• Retirement savings plan
• Ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
• Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program
• Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability
• Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees