Customer Finance Lead

About the role

Parsons is seeking a Customer Finance Lead for a cybersecurity support program. The role involves providing financial management and analysis support for a complex cybersecurity support program, working with customer leadership and program managers to understand financial status, forecast needs, monitor expenditures, and inform resource-allocation decisions. You will join Parsons’ local Analytics & Engineering team, supporting Security, Human Resources, Judge Advocate, training, manpower, and administrative functions. This position is part of Parsons’ Federal Solutions team, which delivers resources to US government customers to ensure mission success worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial management and analysis support for a complex cybersecurity support program.
• Support current-year and long-range financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and execution tracking.
• Develop and maintain budget trackers, financial models, forecasts, spend plans, and management dashboards.
• Monitor planned versus actual expenditures, obligations, commitments, labor, travel, training, and other program costs.
• Analyze budget execution trends, variances, risks, and resource requirements.
• Prepare financial reports, briefings, presentations, and recommendations for customer leadership and program management.
• Support the development of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance reports.
• Maintain accurate financial records and supporting documentation in accordance with customer procedures.
• Coordinate with program managers, functional leads, Government stakeholders, and contractor management to collect, validate, and reconcile financial data.
• Support training-budget tracking and maintain transaction registers by directorate, as applicable.
• Assist with workforce, staffing, manpower, and resource forecasts.
• Identify potential funding shortfalls, execution risks, data inconsistencies, and emerging financial requirements.
• Support financial inputs to program reviews, status reports, acquisition planning, and risk-management activities.
• Develop standard operating procedures, templates, and process improvements to improve financial visibility and reporting efficiency.
• Ensure financial deliverables are accurate, timely, well documented, and aligned with contract requirements.
• Support the Program Manager with financial and business processes while recognizing that Government officials retain responsibility for inherently Governmental budget and funding decisions.

Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance active/current
• 10+ years of relevant finance experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and resource planning.
• Experience developing and maintaining financial trackers, models, dashboards, and management reports.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, data validation, charts, and financial analysis.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet recurring reporting deadlines, and work effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to analyze complex financial information and communicate findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Desired Skills

• Experience supporting Air Force, intelligence community, federal, or other government customers.
• Experience with government contracts, contract financial management, program controls, or performance-based service contracts.
• Familiarity with Federal Acquisition