Lead Finance Specialist 1 - FP&A Operations

Job Description Summary

Whether you want to work at one of our facilities as the site leader's right hand helping to make business decisions or at headquarters on a larger finance team, we have an opportunity for you. You'll get to work with budgets of various sizes and complexities, while collaborating with others. Our finance and accounting teams span the globe, providing unmatched learning, development, and career growth opportunities.

Responsible for providing financial planning, analysis and reporting for Corporate, a business, or a P&L within a business. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

• Responsible for managing the business cycles: current month, current quarter, current year, and 3 year plan (budget, QMI, LRF) for an Engineering organization in Defense Engines. Explain KPIs measuring the performance in all areas of spending - mfg support, field support & R&D (CFD) and customer spend. Analyze the variance to forecasts and propose action plans to improve profitability and cash generation as well as corrective action plans as needed. Coordinate and communicate forecasts to team/management.
• Utilizes in-depth knowledge of Engineering charging practices and color of money to insure appropriate charges to customer contracts, company funded categories, investment, and overhead.
• Facilitate/generate customer financial reporting per contract requirements. Coordinate generation of data for reports. Review reports with internal management.
• Aware of government financial contract requirements to insure compliance. Respond to customer financial questions/needs.
• Use Lean principles to stream line processes.
• Good understanding of systems: Clarity, Centerpiece, Spotfire
• Working knowledge of government Earned Value Management (EVM) concepts.
• Support requests for data in support of internal business needs, customer requests, audits, and proposals.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 6 years of relevant finance experience

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
  
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