Title:  Specialist, Program Finance

Job Title: Specialist, Program Finance

Job Code: 43766

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

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

Job Description:

Our Program Finance Specialists play a key role in keeping our departments and programs on track. With the use of Earned Value Management System (EVM) and other monitoring process, they keep all projects and programs moving in the same direction with accurate and complete information. We are seeking a proactive, self-starter with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.  Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to be able to collaborate with key functional stakeholders including Program Management, Material Planning and Operations. Ideal candidate must be detail oriented with good organizational skills and capable of multi-tasking and the ability to work with general oversight.  Successful candidates will demonstrate an aptitude for efficiency, problem-solving, and resourcefulness, with a commitment to quality while developing their leadership skills as a key business partner.

In this role, the individual will serve a vital function by applying EVM, Finance, and accounting skills to prepare financial reporting on a major defense program; use metrics associated with management best practices and prepare reports to reflect Awards, Sales, Profit, and Cash. May also assist proposal teams, to develop bases-of-estimate, provide actuals data, and support fact-finding/negotiations as needed.

Essential Functions:

• Works under general oversight to develop time-phased integrated budgets and schedules, Earned Value (EV) data compliance and reporting, cost accounting and cost and schedule integration.
• Provide management with early warnings of potential financial performance issues for their programs by identifying risks and offering solutions.
• Budgeting, cost control and variance analysis, internal/external reporting, risk management and financial support.
• Development of quarterly EACs; analyze/assist in accurate projection of Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Complete (EAC) and Latest Revised Estimate (LRE) data.
• Explain, interpret and lead financial analysts with organization of Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), creation and maintenance of charge numbers.
• Analyze costs and personnel ensuring that actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.
• Analyze workforce planning, forecasting and reporting.
• Accounting data extraction and reconciliation.
• Generate program financial artifacts such as EV reports, graphs, and analysis, as required to include customer reporting.
• Develop and present briefing of program financial status to customer.
• Explain and interpret processes to PMO and CAMS with internal reports on cost and schedule performance.
• Communicates within and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices and processes.
• Provide suggestions and implementation of new process improvement initiatives.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis, data integrity checks, and validations related to program financials.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, a minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Ability to accurately perform financial calculations used in cost/budget analysis.
• Computer skills to include Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Access is a plus.
• Proficiency with the use of imported and/or exported data.
• Understanding of general accounting principles and earned value management, including the ability to accurately assess cost data and forecast expenditures.
• Proficiency with Excel and Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of cost/schedule development, budgeting, financial analysis and reporting, financial modeling, corporate forecasting, and/or business acquisitions.
• Familiarity with Contract Compliance and Negotiation.
• Experience with customer/management reporting.
• Ability/desire to mentor less experienced team members.
• Ability to work independently with general supervision.
• Broad knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

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