Director, Finance; Profitable Growth Strategy

Director, Finance (Profitable Growth Strategy)

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Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. L3

Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

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Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Location:

Melbourne, FL or Remote Opportunity

Job Schedule:

9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

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Harris Corporate Headquarters is seeking a Director, Finance. The Director will run a newly established Independent Review function responsible for ensuring the company's proposal offerings enable the right long-term financial outcomes. This role will be responsible for performing Independent Cost Estimate reviews to evaluate the financial uncertainty in the bid process and execution confidence. The Director will additionally partner with functional leadership across the company to drive estimating expectations and a professional estimating framework to support the proposal process.

The ideal candidate has had experience working large proposal activities, and has led aspects of independent cost / proposal reviews. The candidate should be detail oriented with good organizational skills and capable of multi-tasking, with an ability to work with minimal day-to-day supervision. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated ability to evaluate all aspects of financial data generated for a proposal offering, including labor and material estimates, subcontract quotes, special contract clauses, and cash flow models.

Essential Functions:

• Creation and maintenance of a Corporate Independent Cost Estimate Review calendar
• Preparation of Independent Cost Estimate outputs to drive decision making at Segment and Corporate proposal reviews
• Advise on any functional estimating initiatives, and help establish estimating factors to more easily evaluate bids
• Partner with Program Excellence organization to coordinate joint Non-Advocate Reviews, Baseline Reviews, and Program Assessment Reviews as required
• Develop Independent Review discipline within finance in order to build and expand a review team
• Travel up to 25% of the time

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum of 12 years experience in defense contracting environment, proposals, and financial positions.

Preferred Additional

Skills:

• Good communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Capable in modeling, scenario analysis
• Able to successfully work across multiple functions
• Able to meet deadlines and operate to short timeline efforts

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Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. L3

Harris is committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity and maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.