Program Financial Analyst

<p>Required Qualifications:</p><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree with 2 years relevant experience or 0 years with MS/MA</li><li>Experience working with financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting, and analysis and incorporating milestone schedules into all activities.</li><li>Prior experience working FFP, T&M, and CPFF programs.</li><li>US Citizenship.</li></ul><p>Preferred Qualifications:</p><ul><li>Excel proficient.</li><li>Experience with Deltek CostPoint & Cognos.</li><li>Strong organizational skills are required.</li><li>Knowledge and experience with Federal Accounting Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) are highly desired.</li><li>Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet recurring deadlines.</li><li>Experience with large scale multiple element contracts.</li></ul> <p>Peraton is seeking a Program Financial Analyst to join a team of qualified, diverse individuals. The selected individual will be responsible for performing analysis of budgets, invoices, and forecasts needed to meet contractual/project requirements assigned portions of the programs.</p><p> </p><p>Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:</p><ul><li>End to end program financial management.</li><li>Attend and present program financials at monthly customer program reviews.</li><li>Performs complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules needed to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program or programs. </li><li>Develops and maintains reporting and analysis systems to guide the financial management of individual programs and contracts to achieve company objectives. </li><li>Assesses program performance and tracks the performance against program budgets. Acts as a key technical expert on financial analysis issues. Coordinates, negotiates, and resolves financial compliance issues with various governmental agencies to ensure accurate interpretation of contract requirements. </li><li>Establishes and defines program plan requirements for assigned work. Coordinates interdepartmental development of program plans and interfaces with vendors and customers as required. </li><li>Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual cost and schedule objectives are met. Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management. </li><li>Support the development, update and review of the program spend plan twice a week. This includes loading actual costs to date and then coordinating with project managers to create monthly forecast.</li><li>Educate Program staff on financial impacts of program changes.</li><li>Work with billing department to ensure prompt and accurate monthly invoicing.</li><li>Perform monthly variance analysis on program financials.</li><li>Monitor spending versus plan and notifies management promptly of any over runs/under runs.</li><li>Prepares financial reports, statements, estimates (ETC, EAC), and other program deliverables to ensure effective management.</li><li>Monitor the status of financial accounts, ensuring that contract charges accurately reflect the correct labor hours and rates, subcontractor costs and other direct costs (ODCs).</li><li>Subcontract management including accruals, PO funding, ensure subcontractor costs are fully accounted.</li><li>Interfaces with management, responding to their requests for financial data.</li><li>Respond to internal and external audit request.</li><li>Support other adhoc reporting and/or activities as needed.</li><li>Monitor DSO calculations and take actions to drive cash collection.</li><li>Validate Backlog Revenue on a quarterly basis adjusting as needed based on customer spending patterns.</li><li>Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.</li></ul>

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