Job Purpose:
The Program Finance & Pricing Financial Analyst handles program financial controls and proposal pricing. This role is primarily responsible for assessing financial health of active programs while helping to build a database of accurate cost estimates/ cost models to be used on new bids. Partnering with the Program/ teams, this position will track financial performance and deliver accurate, data-driven reports.
Duties:
Program Finance & Project Control
- Support the generation of periodic Estimates at Complete (EAC)s, including estimates of costs, reasonableness analysis, and assessment of the cost and impacts of risk and opportunities
- Perform Earned Value (EV) and financial analysis to budget baselines, schedule, and EACs
- Prepare forecasts, monitor actuals, and document variances to plans and forecasts
- Review program schedules (e.g., Gantt charts, milestones) to verify that financial spend plans align with actual project execution timelines.
- Track contract conditions, including but not limited to, period of performance, reporting requirements, and funding amounts, and work with various stakeholders to generate customer reports and notifications (e.g., funding thresholds 75% / 85% limitation of funds)
Pricing & Proposal Support
- Work with Program Managers to build and populate structured pricing models for RFPs, task orders, and contract modifications based on specific RFP requirements.
- Apply compliant labor wrap rates, indirect rates, fringe, overhead, and G&A burdens to cost proposals using data from Costpoint rate pools.
- Review pricing inputs to ensure strict compliance with FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation), CAS, and solicitation instructions.
- Coordinate with cross-functional stakeholders throughout the proposal development process to collect, validate, and consolidate pricing inputs and integrate them into financial templates.
Compliance & Financial Controls
- Audit Preparedness: Maintain documented files supporting pricing rationale to assist during potential DCAA (Defense Contract Audit Agency) audits.
Skills/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 1-4 years of experience in financial analysis, program finance, or pric