Overview
Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Professional Services SBU, a Chenega Professional Services company, is looking for a Finance Manager to support the Strategic Business Unit, its operating companies, programs, and contracts. The position performs day-to-day financial analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, billing, revenue review, and project financial management while coordinating the work of a small Finance team.
This position partners with Operations, Contracts, Accounting, Pricing, and leadership to ensure accurate financial results, timely reporting, effective management of contract funding, and compliance with corporate policies and government contracting requirements. The Finance Manager maintains an individual workload and provides practical day-to-day guidance to team members, escalating significant risks and decisions to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
Financial Management and Reporting
- Coordinate the monthly financial close and reporting process for assigned companies, programs, and contracts.
- Review monthly financial results, including revenue, cost, gross margin, operating income, indirect expenses, unbilled receivables, accounts receivable, and variances to budget and forecast.
- Perform budget-to-actual and forecast-to-actual analysis and communicate significant variances, trends, risks, and corrective actions to leadership.
- Ensure financial data is complete, accurate, appropriately supported, and reconciled between financial and operational reporting systems.
- Support executive and corporate financial reporting requirements.
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Project Management
- Prepare and coordinate the annual budget and periodic forecasts under the direction of senior leadership.
- Prepare and review EACs, ETCs, revenue forecasts, staffing projections, and funding requirements.
- Monitor contract funding, expenditures, burn rates, ceilings, periods of performance, and margins.
- Identify potential funding shortfalls, cost overruns, unbilled balances, margin deterioration, and other financial risks; elevate material issues promptly.
- Support project teams with cost estimates, BOEs, contract-required financial reports, and funding modification requests.
Billing, Revenue, and Working Capital
- Review of customer invoices to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with contractual billing requirements.
- Review unbilled receivables and aged accounts receivable, investigate root causes, and coordinate resolution with Operations, Contracts, Accounting, and customers as appropriate.
- Monitor revenue recognition and ensure revenue and cost accruals are appropriately recorded.
- Review invoice reconciliations and support resolution of billing discrepancies and rejected invoices.
- Support contract and project financial closeout.
Compliance and Internal Controls
- Maintain financial processes and controls consistent with company policy, contract requirements, and applicable federal contracting requirements.
- Review direct costs for proper project and contract allocation and ensure financial transactions are appropriately documented and supported.
- Coordinate corrections involving labor, cost transfers, billing, revenue, and other financial transactions.
- Support internal and external audits and financial reviews.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen financial controls and improve Finance processes.
Pricing and Business Development Support
- Prepare and review pricing models, cost volumes, staffing models, BOEs, and supporting financial analyses for proposals and contract modifications.
- Develop or review BOEs and pricing assumptions.
- Support prime and subcontract pricing negotiations.
- Provide financial analysis for new business opportunities, contract modifications, and strategic business decisions.
Systems, Process Improvement, and Leadership
- Serve as a finance resource for Deltek Costpoint and related reporting tools.
- Develop and improve financial models, dashboards, reports, procedures, and controls; standardize and streamline recurring Finance processes where practical.
- Provide day-to-day guidance, answer technical questions, help prioritize assignments, and monitor recurring deadlines.
- Review work products for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.
- Support onboarding, cross-training, and process documentation; provide input to performance discussions.
- Coordinate Finance activities across functional areas and operating companies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in financial analysis, accounting, project finance, or government contracting finance.
- Demonstrated experience with financial reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting, EAC/ETC development, contract funding and project controls, billing and revenue analysis, and financial performance analysis.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and financial controls.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience with ERP or accounting systems, preferably Deltek Costpoint.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to operational and executive leadership.
- Successfully pass background and drug screening.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting U.S. federal government contracts.
- Working knowledge of FAR and CAS concepts and government contract cost accounting.
- Supervisory or team leadership experience, preferably leading five or more employees.
- Experience with multiple contract types, including firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials, and cost-reimbursement contracts.
- Experience supporting proposal pricing and contract negotiations.
- Experience with EAC/ETC development, project controls, funding management, and financial performance measurement; Earned Value Management experience preferred.
- Experience developing financial dashboards, management reports, and process improvements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as a strong member of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to analyze project-control requirements and develop tools and processes that enhance effectiveness.
- Knowledge and proficiency in Deltek Costpoint and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet recurring financial deadlines while maintaining accuracy and confidentiality.
Estimated Salary/Wage USD $130,000.00/Yr. Up to USD $140,000.00/Yr.
