Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

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At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.
We are looking to add a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Specialist II to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about making an impact in a growing company, we would like to hear from you.    The role will develop and maintain proposal costing models, develop financial forecasts, track cost and schedule performance, and perform variance analysis for reporting of projects/programs. This is an in-office role that can be performed from our facility in either Austin, TX, Broomfield CO, or El Segundo, CA.   You will have the ability to affect change and collaborate with the entire team to exponentially grow CesiumAstro. Your contributions will play an essential role in supporting the company through hyper-growth as you forecast the future while scaling both revenue and internal relationships.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leading and developing new business proposals, including coordination, collection and analysis of cost and schedule from multi-functional departments.
• Generating cost volumes for proposals in accordance with request for proposal (RFP) specifications and other pricing/cost requirements.
• Designing and developing Cost Models and Cost Estimating Relationships (CERs) for proposals working with senior engineering staff to generate basis of estimates based on work breakdown structures.
• Creating and presenting cost issues and risks to senior and executive leadership.
• Providing budget and financial artifacts for program startup culminating in Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBRs).
• Working closely with program management to help generate monthly Integrated Program Management Reports (IPMR), Quarterly Estimate at Completions (EACs).
• Acting as the subject matter expert for financial performance of their programs, providing management with an early warning of potential performance issues, identifying risks and offering solutions.
• Interfacing with Executive Management, Program Management, Accounting, Functional Leads, and customers as the primary source of all financial information for the programs they support.
• Preparing monthly forecasts outlooks for Orders, Sales, EBIT, Cash and Working Capital.
• Providing financial analysis for audits and other financial activities including Interfacing with DCAA and Customers for joint surveillance reviews (JSRs).
• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward. 
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data.
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways the company could utilize cash. 
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets/forecasts and consolidate into corporate budget/forecasts.
• Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts. 
• Extracting Big Data sets and consolidating them into useful analytics. 
• Developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy. 

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or related from an accredited university or college. 
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience developing and implementing financial budgets and forecasts.
• Experience in developing cost volumes, basis of estimates (BOEs), and roll-ups of non-recurring efforts (NREs), recurring efforts (REs), and materials.
• Understanding of EVMS principles and Program Baseline Planning.
• Ability to analyze data and synthesize complexity into clarity for decision-making. 
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Sales and other departments. 
• A desire to have a broader impact and make meaningful contributions as our small company grows by creating novel financial and business insights.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication with ability to effectively convey data into information with various levels of management, peers, and customers.
• Must have persistence and tenacity to meet deadlines in a challenging, multi-tasking environment.
• Ability to identify risks, evaluate the probability and magnitude, and implement risk mitigating strategies
• Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in a start-up, high-growth, and venture-backed company CesiumAstro considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education/training, and key skills.  Full-time employment offers include company stock options and a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life, disability and retirement plans.   CesiumAstro is an Equal Opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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