Title:  Senior Specialist, Program Finance

Job Title: Senior Specialist, Program Finance 

Job Code: 33756

Job Location: Melbourne, FL

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 Financial Analysts play a key role in keeping our departments and programs on track. With the use of Earned Value Management System (EVMS) and other monitoring process, we 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 minimal day to day supervision.  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 Earned Value Management (EVM), Finance, and accounting skills to prepare financial reporting on a major 5-year capacity expansion project; use metrics associated with management best practices and prepare reports associated with construction costs, capital expenditures and project labor costs. Position will work closely with operations program management team, 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
• Comprehensive knowledge in managing financial performance on large-scale construction / capital projects, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, 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
• Educate 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 leadership
• Educate operations program management with internal reports on cost and schedule performance
• Communicates within and outside the organization to explain and influence changes to practices and processes.
• Provides suggestions and implementation of new process improvement initiatives
• Perform ad-hoc analysis, data integrity checks, and validations related to program financials
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 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
• Experience with financial management of large-scale construction projects
• Experience with management reporting
• Ability/desire to mentor less experienced team members
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision