Senior Financial Planning and Analysis; FP&A Specialist II

Please Note: To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

At Cesium Astro
, we are developers and pioneers of out‑of‑the‑box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross‑functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands‑on, interactive, and autonomous work, Cesium Astro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward‑thinking individuals to join our team.

We are looking to add a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Specialist II to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about making an impact in a growing company, we would like to hear from you.

The role will develop and maintain proposal costing models, develop financial forecasts, track cost and schedule performance, and perform variance analysis for reporting of projects/programs. This is an in‑office role that can be performed from our facility in either Austin, TX, Broomfield CO, or El Segundo, CA.

You will have the ability to affect change and collaborate with the entire team to exponentially grow Cesium Astro. Your contributions will play an essential role in supporting the company through hyper‑growth as you forecast the future while scaling both revenue and internal relationships.

• Leading and developing new business proposals, including coordination, collection and analysis of cost and schedule from multi‑functional departments.
• Generating cost volumes for proposals in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications and other pricing/cost requirements.
• Designing and developing Cost Models and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) for proposals working with senior engineering staff to generate basis of estimates based on work breakdown structures.
• Creating and presenting cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership.
• Providing budget and financial artifacts for program startup culminating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
• Working closely with program management to help generate monthly Integrated Program Management Reports (IPMR), Quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs).
• Acting as the subject matter expert for financial performance of their programs, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, identifying risks and offering solutions.
• Interfacing with Executive Management, Program Management, Accounting, Functional Leads, and customers as the primary source of all financial information for the programs they support.
• Preparing monthly forecasts outlooks for Orders, Sales, EBIT, Cash and Working Capital.
• Providing financial analysis for audits and other financial activities including Interfacing with DCAA and Customers for joint surveillance reviews (JSRs).
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations.
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data.
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways the company could utilize cash.
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets/forecasts and consolidate into corporate budget/forecasts.
• Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts.
• Extracting Big Data sets and consolidating them into useful analytics.
• Developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy.

• A Bachelor’s degree in…