Program Financial Analyst

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years relevant experience or 3 years with MS/MA, or 9 years of experience with no degree.
• Experience working with financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting, and analysis and incorporating milestone schedules into all activities.
• Prior experience working FFP, T&M, and CPFF programs.
• US Citizenship.

• Excel proficient.
• Experience with Deltek CostPoint & Cognos.
• Strong organizational skills are required.
• Knowledge and experience with Federal Accounting Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) are highly desired.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet recurring deadlines.
• Experience with large scale multiple element contracts.

Peraton is seeking a Program Financial Analyst to join a team of qualified, diverse individuals. The selected individual will be responsible for performing analysis of budgets, invoices, and forecasts needed to meet contractual/project requirements assigned portions of the programs.

• End to end program financial management.
• Attend and present program financials at monthly customer program reviews.
• Performs complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules needed to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program or programs.
• Develops and maintains reporting and analysis systems to guide the financial management of individual programs and contracts to achieve company objectives.
• Assesses program performance and tracks the performance against program budgets. Acts as a key technical expert on financial analysis issues. Coordinates, negotiates, and resolves financial compliance issues with various governmental agencies to ensure accurate interpretation of contract requirements.
• Establishes and defines program plan requirements for assigned work. Coordinates interdepartmental development of program plans and interfaces with vendors and customers as required.
• Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual cost and schedule objectives are met. Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.
• Support the development, update and review of the program spend plan twice a week. This includes loading actual costs to date and then coordinating with project managers to create monthly forecast.
• Educate Program staff on financial impacts of program changes.
• Work with billing department to ensure prompt and accurate monthly invoicing.
• Perform monthly variance analysis on program financials.
• Monitor spending versus plan and notifies management promptly of any over runs/under runs.
• Prepares financial reports, statements, estimates (ETC, EAC), and other program deliverables to ensure effective management.
• Monitor the status of financial accounts, ensuring that contract charges accurately reflect the correct labor hours and rates, subcontractor costs and other direct costs (ODCs).
• Subcontract management including accruals, PO funding, ensure subcontractor costs are fully accounted.
• Interfaces with management, responding to their requests for financial data.
• Respond to internal and external audit request.
• Support other adhoc reporting and/or activities as needed.
• Monitor DSO calculations and take actions to drive cash collection.
• Validate Backlog Revenue on a quarterly basis adjusting as needed based on customer spending patterns.
• Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.