Associate Director - FP&A - Government Contracting - Private Equity Advisory

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Associate Director – FP&A
- Government Contracting

By joining our rapidly growing Private Equity practice, you will serve as a trusted partner to our clients. You’ll bring your first‑hand experience, unique perspectives, and functional knowledge to deliver tailored, integrated solutions that help our clients solve today's challenges and set the foundation for future success. As an Associate Director at Cross Country Consulting, you will be responsible for a mix of client delivery, leading teams and developing junior team members, and participating in business development activities.

In today’s competitive deal market, private equity firms are increasingly turning to operational enhancements as a driver of value creation in their investment portfolios. It is essential for private equity funds to have a portfolio support team, either internally or externally, to guide CFOs as they build a scalable accounting and finance function that supports the investment thesis. We are experienced operators who serve as an extension of leading private equity sponsors to drive meaningful and sustainable operational changes across their portfolios.

• Serve clients within the “Office of the CFO” at private equity portfolio companies, creating a diagnostic framework and enhancing the effectiveness of the finance function.
• Serve as a subject matter expert with deep expertise in the Government Contracting (“Gov Con”) industry vertical, working directly with portfolio company management and sponsors to drive financial planning, indirect rate strategy, and compliance‑aligned reporting across Gov Con investments.
• Lead the development, calculation, and operationalization of scalable wrap rate processes and planning tools across portfolio companies, ensuring alignment with DCAA requirements and contract pricing strategies. These activities may include:
• Build and refine indirect rate structures, provisional billing rates, and rate variance analyses to support accurate job costing and profitability tracking.
• Developing and optimizing planning and reporting tools tailored to cost‑plus, T&M, and FFP contracts.
• Develop bid/pr­posal pricing support, including rate build‑ups, should‑cost analyses, and competitive positioning for new business capture.
• Lead the implementation of a financial management capability, including multi‑year financial modeling and annual target‑setting processes, translating strategic targets into annual and monthly operating/capital budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare financial and operational management reports, comparing current actual and year‑to‑date performance with prior year results, forecasts, and budgeted results, and help to identify and implement associated KPI reporting.
• Assess the current state and build or modify analytical resources, tools, models, metrics, and methodologies to enhance decision‑making support. This includes…