Senior Financial Analyst

Job Summary General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), an affiliate of General Atomics, is a world leader in proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft and tactical reconnaissance radars, as well as advanced high-resolution surveillance systems.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Under limited direction, within an assigned division(s), this position is responsible for providing budgeting, cost and hours analyses, and reporting on assigned contracts and projects.
• Prepares budgets, forecasts, and related reports for specified profit and cost centers to monitor overall financial performance and for use in annual strategic planning and budget presentations to financial and operating management.
• Exercises considerable judgment within broadly defined practices and precedents to contribute to the development of new concepts, techniques and standards to ensure financial planning and cost control activities meet overall objectives.
• Responds to inquiries, identifies issues, and guides the development on innovative solutions to complex and diverse challenges concerning a variety financial data, some of which contain confidential and sensitive information, which require tact and discretion in handling.
• Makes internal and external presentations and may represent the company as the primary financial contact.
• Provides direction to support staff and less experienced professional staff. May be assigned project leadership.
• Assists 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) and 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.
• Prices proposals based on direct labor hours and other direct costs.
• 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.
• Updates and maintains projects, work break-down 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.
• Provides training to other financial analysts on the company's ERP system, and supports system enhancements and upgrades as a super-user in specification requirements and testing.
• Reviews proposed contracts and other agreements from a financial and general business perspective.
• Interfaces with DCAA and external auditors on a variety of audit inquiries.
• Provides specialized cost accounting support on complex product lines, including project manufacturing, and/or sensitive program support requiring necessary security clearances and specialized accounting knowledge.
• Other duties as assigned or required.

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting and/or finance and ten or more years of progressive professional cost accounting experience in a corporate environment, preferably with a government contractor. May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrates an 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 with some experience in project leadership.
• Must be customer focused and possess:
  • The ability to identify issues and develop solutions to a variety of complex problems of diverse scope and complexity.
  • Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills to accurately document, report, and present accounting and finance findings.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to influence and guide all levels of employees, including senior managers and senior external parties on accounting and finance matters.
  • The ability to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information.
  • The ability to represent the department or company on projects.
  • Excellent computer skills.
  • Ability to work independently or in a team environment is essential as is the ability to travel as required.