Senior Financial Analyst, Program Finance

The role

This person will own financial forecasting and reporting for funded programs and IRAD projects. They will partner with various departments to maintain views of labor and equipment resources and build financial models for pricing proposals.

What you will do

• Own financial tracking for funded programs and IRAD projects
• Partner with Program Management, Mission Operations, and R&D to build budgets and staffing plans
• Assign project/charge codes at the inception of each program or IRAD project
• Monitor purchase orders and accounting actuals against each project code
• Validate labor charging to each project in coordination with Cost Accounting
• Build financial models and cost estimates in support of pricing proposals
• Maintain forecasts for greenlit projects and calculate program margin
• Maintain a portfolio-level view across active funded programs and IRAD projects
• Own program estimates-at-completion used in revenue recognition
• Support customer audits with program-level cost data

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• 3+ years of relevant experience in program finance, cost/project accounting, or FP&A
• Strong Excel/financial modeling skills
• Experience with ERP/timekeeping systems and project/charge code setup
• Working knowledge of fully burdened labor rates (fringe, overhead, G&A)
• Comfortable operating across a portfolio of concurrent, fast-moving projects

Nice to have

• MBA or advanced degree in a finance-related discipline
• Familiarity with FAR/CAS cost allowability as it relates to IRAD, NRE, or demonstration/prototype efforts
• Familiarity with government contract types (FFP, T&M, cost-type)
• Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, and/or Datarails

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch while you're working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles.