Finance & Business Operations Manager IRES – SSFB_HSV

Position Title:

Finance & Business Operations Manager

Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO or Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL

Relocation Assistance: None available at this time

Remote/Telework: NO — requires a minimum of 3 days, in-person work at the Amentum Office or customer site

Clearance Type: DoD Secret

Shift: Day shift

Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time

Amentum is seeking a Finance and Business Operations Manager to lead financial planning, analysis, and business operations in support of complex government programs. This role serves as a strategic partner to program and functional leadership, providing data‑driven insight, financial governance, and disciplined execution. The manager is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team, ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements, and enabling informed decision‑making across the organization.

• Provide strategic leadership to a multidisciplinary finance and business operations team, ensuring alignment with program, contract, and organizational objectives.

• Establish clear performance expectations, set priorities, and hold team members accountable for quality, timeliness, and results.

• Lead workforce management activities—including recruiting, development, performance evaluation, and succession planning—to build and sustain high performing teams.

• Perform detailed variance analysis (budget vs. actuals, forecast vs. actuals) to identify root causes, financial drivers, and forward looking impacts.

• Develop and maintain financial models, scenario analyses, and sensitivity analyses to assess risks, opportunities, and alternative courses of action.

• Partner with Program Managers and senior leaders to support forecast accuracy, resource allocation, and informed trade off decisions.

• Synthesize complex financial and operational data into clear analytical conclusions and recommendations for leadership decision making.

• Lead financial planning activities including budgets, forecasts, and long range outlooks, ensuring alignment with contractual and corporate requirements.

• Develop and manage estimates at completion (EACs), ensuring disciplined cost control and early identification of financial and compliance risks.

• Oversee forecasting of revenue, cost, margin, cash flow, and indirect rates with a focus on accuracy, auditability, and traceability.

• Ensure full compliance with contract terms, corporate policies, US GAAP, and applicable Cost Accounting Standards.

• Maintain accountability for accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, and annual internal and external financial reporting.

• Oversee financial controls, billing, accounts receivable, and cash management to safeguard company assets and data integrity.

• Serve as the primary interface for internal and external audits, ensuring thorough documentation, responsiveness, and regulatory adherence.

• Serve as a trusted finance and business operations advisor to Program Managers, senior leaders, customers, and corporate stakeholders.

• Support program reviews and leadership engagements with disciplined financial analysis and risk informed insights.

• Identify, assess, and manage financial, operational, and programmatic risks, proactively communicating impacts and mitigation strategies.

• Balance responsiveness to stakeholder needs with strong financial governance, compliance, and disciplined execution.

• Must have 12, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience

• May be reduced with completion of advanced education

• Must have 6, or more, years of directly related experience in finance, accounting, or business operations in a government contracting environment

• Must have 3, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Must have, or obtain, an active DoD Secret Security Clearance

• Have experience supporting DoD or other federal government customers.

• Have Costpoint…