Manager, Operations Finance

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, seeks a Manager of Operations Finance to join their team. This position will focus on developing and implementing a comprehensive forecasting approach aligned with the Operations team, supporting financial practices, and providing guidance to the finance leadership team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Be a business partner to the Operations leadership team by providing leadership and guidance on financial decisions.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure efficient business processes, strong operational results, and profitability of the company – reviewing and challenging peers when necessary.
• Provide finance insight to non-finance partners, including potential actions for recovery to plans.
• Manage and develop the Operations Finance team.
• Oversight of financial metrics, including, but not limited to: overhead, labor utilization, rate management, inventory and capital expenditures.
• Lead budgeting and monitoring activities of forecast inventory management across multiple disciplines.
• Lead budgeting activities for the development of annual operation plans, forward pricing rate proposals, monthly estimates-at-complete and quarterly forecasts for the Operations Finance team.
• Provide timely, relevant, and accurate reporting & analysis of the company’s performance against historical, budgeted, forecasted, and strategic planning results to facilitate decision-making toward the achievement of the budget and long-range strategic plan.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging the adoption of best practices and new technologies.
• Support executive level presentations, including financial reports, charts, tables, and other exhibits, and support business partners with ad-hoc reporting.
• Maintain controls and procedures to ensure quality and reliability of financial information and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with company financial policies and accounting practices while maintaining the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Responsible for observing all laws, regulations, and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or related discipline and eleven or more years of progressively complex experience in finance/accounting.
• Must have experience in or government contractor environment.
• Equivalent experience may be substituted in lieu of education.
• Must have experience in a government contractor environment.
• Demonstrates extensive technical expertise and application of industry and government cost accounting principles, theories, concepts, standards, and practices, with the ability to organize, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established milestones.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Must be customer focused – strong leadership, presentation, and interpersonal skills to influence and guide all levels of employees, including senior leaders and senior external parties on finance matters.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise of project planning, execution and forecasting.
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills to accurately document, report, and present accounting and finance findings.
• Experience in organizational and operational problem resolution and the ability to interpret and explain complex financial issues.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment is essential.

Preferred Skills

• Advanced understanding of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and Grouping Pegging and Distribution (GPD).
• Understanding of various project types and implications of cost postings to Forecast, Capital, Overhead, and Direct Customer Contract.
• Implications to costing of various manufacturing methodologies, unreleased materials, Sales Orders and replenishment objects being swept up in GPD.
• Understanding of Project Stock vs. Plant Stock costing implications, Distribution, Plant Stock Allocation, Demand Signals etc.
• Intermediate to Advanced level of understanding for the Cost Transfer Processes and Labor Transfers.