Senior Finance Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide direct financial leadership and support for assessing allocation rates, composition of cost pools and for new allocations.

- Work with Group and project finance teams to develop, administer, and implement policies, process improvements, methodologies, and cost allocations.

- Prepare the annual incurred cost submission in real-time, as each month is closed which includes; confirming the allocations are consistent with the CAS Disclosure Statement, reviewing for unallowable costs, and reconciling the submission to the general ledger.

- Receive audit requests (Incurred Cost, project related, Sarbanes-Oxley, DCAA, etc.) and successfully manage them to completion while pulling applicable support documents (e.g., timesheets, invoices, bank records, etc.)

- Develop cost impacts for proposed changes to cost accounting practices.

- Update the CAS Disclosure Statements for clarifications and changes.

- Establish and assures adherence to schedules, work plans, project performance requirements, and deadlines.

- Regularly interact with senior management or executive levels on matters concerning government compliance.

- Establish operational objectives as well as work plans and delegates assignments to indirect subordinates.

- Responsible for creating and maintaining very complex MS Excel spreadsheets including; modeling, formulas, pivot tables, etc.

- Provide training as needed to other teams within the organizations related to government compliance.

- Other duties as assigned.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Performs all project finance functions in accordance with company policy and manuals

- Coordinates with Project Management to develop operational productivity analysis and tracking of metrics to identify where cost efficiencies can be achieved

- Develops and manages project status reporting for Project Management, using CostPoint and Cognos reports as well as Excel

- Reviews contract modifications, maintains financial contract files and prepares reports, documentation and presentations as appropriate

- Prepares and/or reviews Project financial forecasts with Project Management and Division finance and works closely to track performance and provides timely variance and Risk and Opportunity Analysis

- Prepares client invoices in conformance with MAXIMUS policy and client requirements to ensure projects are billed accurately and timely

- Manages Direct Sales Outstanding by expediting collections and keeping unbilled as low as possible

- Performs monthly reconciliation on accrued expenses to ensure completeness of project reporting as well as adherence to GAAP

- Prepares and/or monitors vendor & expense report transaction processing to ensure expenses are coded correctly

- Reviews time charges and practices to ensure project staff and shared resources are reporting time accurately and against appropriate projects

- Provide monthly, quarterly, and annual forecast...