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Salary: USD 120,000 - 150,000 / annual
Red 6 is an innovative augmented reality (AR) technology startup specializing in synthetic air combat training for pilots. The company is building practical, scalable finance capabilities within a growing defense organization.
The Senior Program Finance Analyst serves as the primary finance business partner to program managers and owns the financial performance of a portfolio of defense programs from proposal through development, production, execution, and closeout. This role is central to program success and company planning, offering direct access to program and executive leadership with broad ownership across program finance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serve as primary finance business partner to program managers, owning financial performance of assigned defense programs across their full lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain bottoms-up Estimates at Completion (EACs) and Estimates to Complete (ETCs), ensuring forecast assumptions reflect current technical, schedule, contractual, and execution plans.
- Forecast and analyze bookings, backlog, revenue, margin, cash flow, and working capital; identify risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions.
- Analyze cost and schedule performance, investigate variances, challenge assumptions, and translate program execution changes into clear financial impacts.
- Partner with program management, engineering, operations, contracts, supply chain, and accounting to improve program performance and support timely business decisions.
- Prepare and present recurring program financial reviews to program and executive leadership, communicating performance drivers, forecast changes, risks, opportunities, and required actions.
- Support proposal pricing and capture activities by evaluating cost, schedule, contract, profitability, cash, and execution assumptions.
- Partner with accounting to support accurate revenue recognition under ASC 606 and compliance with government contracting requirements and corporate financial controls.
- Support annual operating plan, monthly and quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning by consolidating program outlooks and analyzing company-level revenue, margin, headcount, operating expenses, and cash flow.
- Develop financial models, dashboards, KPIs, and scenario analyses connecting program execution and operating performance to company financial outcomes.
- Improve finance processes, models, systems, and reporting tools to increase forecast accuracy, visibility, efficiency, and scalability.
Success is measured by accurate and current program forecasts grounded in executable assumptions; early identification and quantification of financial risks and opportunities; delivery of concise, decision-ready insights to program managers and executives; efficient rollup of program outlooks into company forecasts and plans; and scalable finance models and processes that improve visibility, speed, and control.
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or related field.
- Five or more years of progressive experience in program finance or program controls supporting DoD, aerospace, or other U.S. government programs in a contract-driven environment.
- Demonstrated ownership of program financial performance, including EAC and ETC development, revenue and margin forecasting, variance analysis, cash flow, funding, and financial risk management.
- Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM), integrated cost and schedule performance, funding analysis, baseline management, or comparable program controls disciplines.
- Strong understanding of government contract structures and their financial implications, including firm-fixed-price (FFP), cost-reimbursement, and time-and-materials (T&M) contracts.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and demonstrated experience building financial models, forecasts, and executive-ready analyses.
- Ability to operate independently in an evolving environment, establish practical processes, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and build trusted partnerships with program managers and business leaders.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with ability to present complex financial information to technical and executive audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, CAS, GAAP, and ASC 606.
- Experience supporting proposal pricing, capture efforts, and strategic business development initiatives.
