Sr. Director, Finance & Strategy

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Position Summary:

The Sr. Director, Finance & Strategy will provide strategic financial leadership, driving comprehensive financial planning, sophisticated modeling, and growth initiatives within a complex GovCon environment. This role focuses on leveraging advanced financial modeling techniques to support budgeting, forecasting, pricing strategy, indirect rate management, and strategic decision-making. The Sr. Director, Finance & Strategy will collaborate closely with executive leadership, operational & functional teams to ensure data-driven, actionable insights that foster business expansion and long-term top and bottom-line value creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead development and maintenance of complex financial models to support budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and long-term strategic planning.
• Build and refine pricing and cost volume models for competitive bid preparations, incorporating cost element structures, basis of estimate, price to win risk analysis and profitability metrics.
• Design dynamic financial models to analyze wrap rate structures and recommended optimization strategies for profitability and compliance.
• Conduct scenario and sensitivity analyses to assess financial impact of GovCon customer driven, dynamic budget adjustments, project specific incremental fundings, internal business decisions, contracts, M&A opportunities, and market changes.
• Provide detailed financial insights through modeling to support strategic initiatives, including new business ventures and capital allocation decisions.
• Partner with business development and capture teams to integrate financial modeling inputs into pipelines as well as outputs into proposal strategies and contract negotiations.
• Collaborate with operations to align program budgets and realism forecasts based on actual performance using variance analysis and advanced predictive modeling.
• Advise executive leadership with data-driven financial insights, corporate level risk assessments, and recommendations supported by robust financial models.
• Ensure compliance with FAR, DFAR, CAS, DCMA, and DCAA standards regarding pricing and indirect cost allocation as reflected in financial models.
• Act as a financial liaison with government contracting officers, banking partners, and vendors, presenting complex model results in clear terms.
• Partner closely with the Controller to align financial planning models with accounting data and reporting systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.
• 10+ years of progressive finance experience with a significant emphasis on advanced financial modeling, including 5+ years in a leadership role within a government contracting environment.
• Demonstrated success in building, validating, and using complex financial models to drive pricing strategy, cost volume development, and federal bid preparation.
• Knowledge of FAR and DFARS .
• Familiarity with indirect rates (pools and bases), service centers, and indirect rate development.
• Advanced skills in Excel and financial modeling tools; experience with Deltek Costpoint or similar ERP systems strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to conduct scenario, sensitivity, and risk analyses to inform strategic decision-making.
• Exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills capable of conveying complex model results to executives and non-financial audiences.
• Values based Leadership style characterized by mission focus, integrity, accountability, and performance excellence.
• Conduct oneself with both humility and confidence.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in both small and mid to large business GovCon operations.