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Salary: USD 120,000 - 140,000 / annual
CHAOS Industries is a defense technology company founded in 2022 and backed by $1 billion in funding from top-tier investors including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company develops multi-product defense solutions powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™) for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.
The Senior Financial Analyst, Program Finance role owns financial forecasting and reporting across funded defense programs and internal R&D (IRAD) projects. You will partner closely with Program Management, Mission Operations, Business Development, and R&D to maintain visibility into project financials and resource allocation across competing initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own end-to-end financial tracking for funded programs and IRAD projects, including labor hours, labor cost/burden, travel, and direct costs
- Partner with cross-functional teams to build budgets and staffing plans before project kickoff, maintaining a shared view of labor and equipment demand
- Assign and manage project/charge codes at program inception, ensuring proper setup across timekeeping, procurement, and accounting systems
- Monitor purchase orders and accounting actuals against project codes to identify mischarges early
- Validate labor charging in coordination with Cost Accounting, ensuring correct labor categories and rates
- Build financial models and cost estimates to support pricing proposals for new funded work
- Maintain forecasts for active projects and calculate program margin (fee/funding less fully burdened labor, travel, and other direct costs) at key milestones and close-out
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility across all active programs, flagging resource conflicts, margin risk, or funding issues proactively
- Own program estimates-at-completion used in revenue recognition and support customer audits with program-level cost data
This is a high-impact role requiring strong financial acumen, deep understanding of government contracting finance, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent, fast-moving projects with competing resource demands.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 3+ years of relevant experience in program finance, cost/project accounting, or FP&A, ideally in government contracting, R&D, or defense/aerospace
- Strong Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP/timekeeping systems and project/charge code setup
- Working knowledge of fully burdened labor rates (fringe, overhead, G&A) and how they flow into pricing and program margin
- Comfortable operating across a portfolio of concurrent, fast-moving projects with competing resource demands
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or advanced degree in finance-related discipline
- Familiarity with FAR/CAS cost allowability as it relates to IRAD, NRE, or demonstration/prototype efforts
- Familiarity with government contract types (FFP, T&M, cost-type) and how program costs and estimates-at-completion feed revenue recognition
- Experience with NetSuite, Salesforce, and/or Datarails
