Program Financial Analyst

Job Summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is a world leader in remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars. This position provides budgeting, cost, and hours analyses, and reports on assigned contracts and projects.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Aids in establishing profit center revenue, cost of sales, gross margin, discretionary spending through profit (loss) and cost center cost, base, and rate budgets.
• Forecasts for one or more calendar years.
• Prepares a variety of actual vs. budget reports for profit and cost center managers including financial and variance analyses and recommendations for corrective action(s).
• Specifies new reports for production from the company's ERP system.
• Develops balance sheets and cash generated (used) schedules; capital program and expenditure budgets; as well as base analyses for assigned profit centers.
• Performs special economic evaluations, business and cost impact analyses, and cash forecasting.
• Pricess proposals based on direct labor hours and other direct costs inputs.
• Works closely with program managers, profit center managers, and cost center managers in planning and budgeting work, tracking actual incurred spending, anticipated to go spending, and expected profit margins.
• Prepares contract and funding status/backlog reports, project performance reports, and monitors any at risk spending.
• Responds to financial inquiries on a variety of contract value, contract modifications, funding, revenue, costing, hours, open commitments, and billing issues.
• Updates and maintains projects, work breakdown structures, and network activities in the Project Systems module in the company's ERP system.
• Reviews labor and procurement requisition charging to network activities and cost centers and works closely with accounting on proper company costing practices and internal controls.
• Other duties as assigned or required.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting and/or finance and three or more years of progressive professional cost accounting experience in a corporate environment, preferably with a government contractor.
• Must have a general knowledge of cost accounting principles, theories and concepts and a general understanding of cost accounting practices, techniques, and standards.
• Must be customer focused and possess:
• The ability to develop solutions to a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity;
• Excellent verbal and written communications and presentations skills to accurately document and report accounting and finance findings to a variety of audiences;
• Excellent interpersonal skills to influence and guide employees, managers and external parties on accounting and finance matters;
• The ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information;
• Excellent computer skills.
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment is essential as is the ability to work extended hours and travel as required.