Senior Manager, Program Finance
About the role
L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers' mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Responsibilities
- Lead, direct and review the work of direct report(s) with focus on policy and strategy implementation to ensure that contracts, proposals, pricing, billings and forecasting, are within negotiated and agreed-upon parameters and government cost control guidelines.
- Develop financials for annual operating plans and strategic plans.
- Provide comprehensive weekly/monthly revenue and project profitability variance analysis against monthly spends, budget and forecasts.
- Implement and maintain Order, Sales, Profit, and Cash Flow weekly tracking sheet to present to leadership, providing program management and program finance inputs, variance analysis against current year plans.
- Work with program management and functional disciplines to ensure program plans and execution are compliant with company standard practice of integrating cost and schedule using earned value management guidelines.
- Assess and quantify cost/schedule/technical status and risk, evaluate program trends, and provide project cost completion estimates.
- Perform analyses, prepare reports and communicate with parties within and outside of the organization which includes customers or vendors.
- Problem solve and conduct investigations to identify root cause and develop improvements to practices or approaches to mitigate scheduling risks.
- Congduct briefings with senior leadership regarding matters of importance to budget control for programs and to explain and influence changes.
- Incorporate contractual changes into control systems by staying aware of outstanding work against each contract to maintain realistic contract cost and schedule baselines.
- Ensure adequate funding availability by maintaining accurate records of expenditures, directing preparation of expenditure projections, and submitting timely requests for additional funding to the government.
- Forecast major aspects of working capital such as cash flow, inventory, accounts receivables, unbilled and deferred revenue to monitor and analyze companies underlying operational efficiency.
- Establish revenue recognition methodology for programs.
- Support internal and external audits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 12 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 10 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
- 5+ years' of Program Financial management experience.
- 3+ years’ setting up and monitoring cost control system on contracts requiring validated cost schedule control system.
Preferred Additional Skills
- Knowledge in program finance interface for proposals, billings, cost control and other financial controls.
- Managing a team of financial analysts
- Use of Hyperion and PeopleSoft
- Experience in the managing of finance in the defense and aerospace industry highly preferred.
- Working knowledge of Cost Accounting Standards and Federal Acquisition Regulations.
- Experience in EVMS and/or Microsoft Project a plus.
Benefits
- Health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- EAP
- Education assistance
- Paid time off
- Company-paid holidays
Pay
The salary range for this role in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C. area, Denver, or NYC areas is $126,000 - $234,000. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, Cleveland Ohio, Vermont and Virginia is $109,500 - $203,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
Schedule
9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off