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.

The company’s Operations Finance team is looking for a driven, self-starting, detail-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. This position will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of a comprehensive forecasting approach. This position is responsible for financial management through leadership, guidance and direction ensuring quality and timeliness of financial information to support business unit leadership decision making, forecasting/budgeting and reporting. A successful team member must be adaptable and flexible to constant changing business requirements in both a technical and non-technical environment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide financial leadership, guidance, and strategy operating as a business partner and trusted advisor to Operations team.

• Directly responsible for providing sound financial advice, proactively identifying business issues and driving resolution in a timely manner.

• Proactively work to understand and close gaps between business plans and resource plans.

• Monitor/update controls and procedures to ensure quality and reliability of financial information and reporting.

• Will work with team members in order to support the development and modification of financial reporting practices and procedures, ensuring that financial reporting activities are successfully implemented and meet overall objectives and required regulatory standards while improving efficiency.

• Will prepare budgets, forecasts and related executive reports/presentations to monitor overall financial performance.

• Facilitate and monitor ASI’s self-insurance and related mishap reporting requirements.

• 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.

• Support the Financial Services team in developing annual plans, updates, forward pricing rate proposals, monthly reporting requirements, and other requirements.

• Provide finance insight to non-finance managers, including potential actions for recovery to plans.

• Provide variance analysis activities throughout the year, driving ad hoc analytics to support the business as well as similar efforts when requested, routinely provide operational financial performance trends, historical & forecasted using appropriate metrics.

• Support collaborative development of modeling tools, review of existing financial processes and development of new and/or improved planning processes, identify financial issues, recommend solutions and provide corrective action to any financial discrepancies.

• Develops balance sheets and cash generated (used) schedules; capital program and expenditure budgets; as well as base analyses for assigned profit centers.

• Responsible for performing special projects to improve process efficiency and performance as assigned by Management.

• Responsible for observing all laws, regulations and other applicable obligations wherever and whenever business is conducted on behalf of the Company. Expected to work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices. Ensure compliance with company financial policies and accounting practices while maintaining the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.

• Other duties as assigned or required.
  

We recognize and appreciate the value and contributions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences and welcome all qualified individuals to apply.

Job Qualifications:

• 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.

• Advanced proficiency with SAP and Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint.

• 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 ; and

  • excellent computer skills.

• Ability to work independently and in a team environment is essential.

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced understanding of MRP and GPD.

• Understanding of Costing, cost elements, cost objects, labor, non-labor, posting date versus doc dates, business transactions, settlement etcetera.

• Understanding of various project types and implications of cost postings to Forecast, Capital, Overhead, and Direct Customer Contract.

• Implications to Costing of various manufacturing methodologies, unreleased materials, Sales Orders and replenishment objects being swept up in Grouping Pegging and Distribution (GPD).

• Understanding of Project Stock vs. Plant Stock costing implications, Distribution, Plant Stock Allocation, Demand Signals etc.

• Intermediate to Advanced level of understanding for the Cost Transfer Processes and Labor Transfers.

Salary:$89,180 - $155,825