Title:  Senior Manager, Program Finance

Job Title: Senior Manager, Program Finance  

Job Code: 40250

Job Location: Amityville, NY

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Corporation’s Release Systems is seeking a Program Senior Manager in Amityville, NY for Tactical Airborne Systems. This position will be responsible for managing, preparing, administering, and directing cost control of the budget for large and/or complex programs, managing PFAs and supporting product line leadership. This position will report to the TAS (Tactical Airborne System) division finance director.

Essential Functions:

• Lead, direct and review the work of direct report(s) with focus on policy and strategy implementation to ensure that contracts, proposals, pricing, billings and forecasting, are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
• Develop financials for annual operating plans and strategic plans.
• Provide comprehensive weekly/monthly revenue and project profitability variance analysis against monthly spends, budget and forecasts.
• Implement and maintain Order, Sales, Profit, and Cash Flow weekly tracking sheet to present to leadership, providing program management and program finance inputs, variance analysis against current year plans.
• Work with program management and functional disciplines to ensure program plans and execution are compliant with company standard practice of integrating cost and schedule using earned value management guidelines
• Assess and quantify cost/schedule/technical status and risk, evaluate program trends, and provide project cost completion estimates.
• Perform analyses, prepare reports and communicate with parties within and outside of the organization which includes customers or vendors.
• Problem solve and conduct investigations to identify root cause and develop improvements to practices or approaches to mitigate scheduling risks.
• Conduct briefings with senior leadership regarding matters of importance to budget control for programs and to explain and influence changes.
• Incorporate contractual changes into control systems by staying aware of outstanding work against each contract to maintain realistic contract cost and schedule baselines.
• Ensure adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.
• Forecast major aspects of working capital such as cash flow, inventory, accounts receivables, unbilled and deferred revenue to monitor and analyze companies underlying operational efficiency.
• Establish revenue recognition methodology for programs.
• Support internal and external audits.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience. 
• 5+ years' of Program Financial management experience.
• 3+ years’ setting up and monitoring cost control system on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Knowledge in program finance interface for proposals, billings, cost control and other financial controls.
• Managing a team of financial analysts
• Use of Hyperion and PeopleSoft
• Experience in the managing of finance in the defense and aerospace industry highly preferred.
• Working knowledge of Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations.
• Experience in EVMS and/or Microsoft Project a plus.
• Ability to work with management and other functional areas in a fast-paced multiple project environment with changing priorities.

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C. area, Denver, or NYC areas is $126,000 - $234,000. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont and Virginia is $109,500 - $203,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.