Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Role & Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining annual budgets and forecasts, financial analysis, and project financial management.
• Assisting with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) compliance.
• Assisting with the annual development of provisional indirect rates and monthly, quarterly analysis to actual indirect rates.
• Performing cost modeling to forecast projected annual spend.
• Providing ongoing analytical financial support to the Mission Offices, timely preparing and submitting NASA 533M and 533Q financial reports, and identifying key areas of risk and/or opportunity.
• Analyzing performance for individual projects within the annual plans against their planned effort.
• Providing cost estimates and pricing that will be supplied to the government in response to proposal requests.
• Working with the scientific, technical, and administrative support units to ensure all appropriate cost elements are collected in the proposed work plan and accurately cost.
• Developing reports and graphical materials and/or presentations, applying data visualization and business intelligence tools to present financial insights clearly for internal and external stakeholders.
• Recommending changes in business policies, practices, and processes.
• Identifying opportunities to automate recurring financial processes, dashboards, and reporting workflows.
• Partnering with IT, HR, PMO and operations teams to integrate financial data across systems for improved analytics.
• Supporting development of AI-driven trend analysis, cost modeling and planning models, and scenario simulations.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS).
• Practical knowledge of full CAS applicability, experience supporting FFP and CPFF contracts is strongly preferred.
• Strong proficiency in accounting principles, with the ability to apply them in a government contracting environment.
• Proficient knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and advanced excel skills.
• Experience using Deltek/Costpoint/Cobra, including COGNOS reporting is a plus.
• Experience with program management and program cost analysis and/or experience developing/managing indirect rates is desired.
• Experience administering programs for government contracts strongly preferred.
• Experience building and maintaining advanced financial data models and analyses.
• Able to communicate clearly both in writing and verbally with stakeholders across all levels and functions in the organization.
• Able to independently organize, analyze, interpret, and evaluate programmatic, staffing, and cost data.