Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

• We are looking to add a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Specialist II to our team
• If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about making an impact in a growing company, we would like to hear from you
• The role will develop and maintain proposal costing models, develop financial forecasts, track cost and schedule performance, and perform variance analysis for reporting of projects/programs
• This is an in-office role that can be performed from our facility in either Austin, TX, Broomfield CO, or El Segundo, CA
• You will have the ability to affect change and collaborate with the entire team to exponentially grow CesiumAstro
• Your contributions will play an essential role in supporting the company through hyper-growth as you forecast the future while scaling both revenue and internal relationships
• Leading and developing new business proposals, including coordination, collection and analysis of cost and schedule from multi-functional departments
• Generating cost volumes for proposals in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications and other pricing/cost requirements
• Designing and developing Cost Models and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) for proposals working with senior engineering staff to generate basis of estimates based on work breakdown structures
• Creating and presenting cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership
• Providing budget and financial artifacts for program startup culminating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs)
• Working closely with program management to help generate monthly Integrated Program Management Reports (IPMR), Quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs)
• Acting as the subject matter expert for financial performance of their programs, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, identifying risks and offering solutions
• Interfacing with Executive Management, Program Management, Accounting, Functional Leads, and customers as the primary source of all financial information for the programs they support
• Preparing monthly forecasts outlooks for Orders, Sales, EBIT, Cash and Working Capital
• Providing financial analysis for audits and other financial activities including Interfacing with DCAA and Customers for joint surveillance reviews (JSRs)
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways the company could utilize cash
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets/forecasts and consolidate into corporate budget/forecasts
• Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts
• Extracting Big Data sets and consolidating them into useful analytics
• Developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision
• HSA and FSA
• Company stock options
• Life, disability and retirement plans- Please Note: To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
• Understanding of EVMS principles and Program Baseline Planning
• Must have persistence and tenacity to meet deadlines in a challenging, multi-tasking environment
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience
• A desire to have a broader impact and make meaningful contributions as our small company grows by creating novel financial and business insights
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales and other departments
• Ability to identify risks, evaluate the probability and magnitude, and implement risk mitigating strategies
• Experience in developing cost volumes, basis of estimates (BOEs), and roll-ups of non-recurring efforts (NREs), recurring efforts (REs), and materials
• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related from an accredited university or college
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with ability to effectively convey data into information with various levels of management, peers, and customers
• Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Ability to analyze data and synthesize complexity into clarity for decision-making
• Experience developing and implementing financial budgets and forecasts
• Experience working in a start-up, high-growth, and venture-backed company