Sr Finance Manager

Culmen International is seeking a Sr Finance Manager.

Reporting to the Vice President, Global Security, with a strong functional relationship to the Chief Financial Officer and corporate finance organization, the Senior Manager, Finance will lead the division's project-finance activities and manage assigned program finance, billing, and project accounting personnel.

This hands-on position is responsible for the full project-finance lifecycle, including Deltek Costpoint project setup, billing, accounts receivable, accruals, financial reporting, bottom-up Estimates at Completion, forecasting, funding analysis, and contract closeout. The Senior Manager will work closely with program leadership, Accounting, Contracts, Pricing, Procurement, and other functional teams to ensure accurate financial execution, timely invoicing, reliable forecasts, and early resolution of performance issues.

This is a hybrid position that will primarily be performed remotely from the employee’s home office. The employee must be available to work from Culmen's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, as needed, up to three days per week and potentially more frequently when collaboration, business needs, or workload require.

Candidates located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area are preferred. Culmen may consider qualified candidates outside the local area; however, non-local employees will be required to travel periodically to the Alexandria headquarters to support meetings, program reviews, and other business requirements.

• Serve as the principal financial advisor to the Vice President, Global Security, and the division leadership team.
• Lead financial management across the Global Security portfolio, including revenue, cost, margin, cash, backlog, funding, billing, collections, and financial risk.
• Develop, maintain, and challenge detailed bottom-up EACs and Estimates to Complete in collaboration with program managers and functional leaders.
• Ensure program forecasts reflect current staffing plans, labor utilization, procurements, subcontracts, travel, construction progress, mobilization requirements, schedules, and contract terms.
• Identify cost overruns, margin erosion, funding constraints, schedule impacts, and other financial risks early enough for management action.
• Prepare portfolio forecasts, dashboards, variance analyses, scenario models, and concise recommendations for division and executive leadership.
• Assist program leadership in preparing for and conducting monthly program management reviews, including financial analyses, forecasts, variance explanations, risks and opportunities, and corrective actions in support of division financial briefings.
• Lead the development and validation of monthly accruals for subcontractors, consultants, travel, procurement, freight, construction, and other program costs.
• Reconcile forecasts and operational estimates with Deltek Costpoint actuals and maintain appropriate support for EAC changes, accruals, and management judgments.
• Manage project setup in Deltek Costpoint for new contracts, task orders, modifications, and funding actions, ensuring accurate project structures, CLINs, contract types, billing and revenue formulas, funding, periods of performance, ceilings, indirect rates, and charge codes.
• Oversee the preparation, review, and timely submission of customer invoices,
• Manage billed and unbilled receivables, invoice rejections, short payments, aged accounts receivable, and collection forecasts.
• Monitor funding, obligations, commitments, expenditures, invoices, collections, by contract, task order, CLIN, and period of performance.
• Forecast domestic and international cash requirements, including mobilization, payroll, advance payments,…