Program Financial Analyst

Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree with 2 years relevant experience or 0 years with MS/MA • Experience working with financial functions such as budgeting, auditing, forecasting, and analysis and incorporating milestone schedules into all activities. • Prior experience working FFP, T&M, and CPFF programs. • US Citizenship. Preferred Qualifications: • Excel proficient. • Experience with Deltek CostPoint & Cognos. • Strong organizational skills are required. • Knowledge and experience with Federal Accounting Regulation (FAR) and Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) are highly desired. • Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet recurring deadlines. • Experience with large scale multiple element contracts. Peraton is seeking a Program Financial Analyst to join a team of qualified, diverse individuals. The selected individual will be responsible for performing analysis of budgets, invoices, and forecasts needed to meet contractual/project requirements assigned portions of the programs. Roles and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: • End to end program financial management. • Attend and present program financials at monthly customer program reviews. • Performs complex financial analysis of budgets and schedules needed to meet contractual/project requirements for assigned program or programs. • Develops and maintains reporting and analysis systems to guide the financial management of individual programs and contracts to achieve company objectives. • Assesses program performance and tracks the performance against program budgets. Acts as a key technical expert on financial analysis issues. Coordinates, negotiates, and resolves financial compliance issues with various governmental agencies to ensure accurate interpretation of contract requirements. • Establishes and defines program plan requirements for assigned work. Coordinates interdepartmental development of program plans and interfaces with vendors and customers as required. • Monitors and reports performance against plans to ensure that contractual cost and schedule objectives are met. Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management. • Support the development, update and review of the program spend plan twice a week. This includes loading actual costs to date and then coordinating with project managers to create monthly forecast. • Educate Program staff on financial impacts of program changes. • Work with billing department to ensure prompt and accurate monthly invoicing. • Perform monthly variance analysis on program financials. • Monitor spending versus plan and notifies management promptly of any over runs/under runs. • Prepares financial reports, statements, estimates (ETC, EAC), and other program deliverables to ensure effective management. • Monitor the status of financial accounts, ensuring that contract charges accurately reflect the correct labor hours and rates, subcontractor costs and other direct costs (ODCs). • Subcontract management including accruals, PO funding, ensure subcontractor costs are fully accounted. • Interfaces with management, responding to their requests for financial data. • Respond to internal and external audit request. • Support other adhoc reporting and/or activities as needed. • Monitor DSO calculations and take actions to drive cash collection. • Validate Backlog Revenue on a quarterly basis adjusting as needed based on customer spending patterns. • Provides reporting of key program metrics to senior management.