Director of Finance

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Business Unit Finance Director leads the finance team to ensure that all facets of the P&L are forecasted and achieved to include revenue, product costs, operating expense, cash and inventory. The position will be responsible for budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting, modelling and developing processes and tools to support the business. This role will serve as a business partner for the business unit VP and staff and have significant interaction across the facility as well as work with corporate finance and accounting. Experience in defense and aerospace industries is a major focus of this role within the business unit.

Job Responsibility:

• Manages FP&A for a facility with different product profiles
• Manages performance of multiple departments through creating workforce and staffing plans for the business unit to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental business results
• Directs financial planning and analysis activities in order to identify risks and opportunities and to contribute to the achievement of the organization's long-term financial goals
• Reviews and approves recommendations for financial planning and control, providing relevant fiscal information to executive management team
• Advises senior leaders by providing detailed analysis and reporting metrics on economic, business and financial developments
• Partners with sales, pricing and operations management to reduce inefficiencies, control investments and expand margins
• Participate and perform analysis and due diligence for M&A activities
• Maintain monthly, quarterly, yearly and multi-year forecasts and budgets
• Extensive ad hoc and standard weekly/monthly reporting
• Responsible for proper documentation of financial standing for audit and regulatory purposes
• Be an integral part of the revenue forecasting process to support production planning
• Evaluate and assess the impact of current processes and bring in thought leadership for change and innovation for financial optimization

Required Qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of experience
• Experience in defense and aerospace industries highly desirable
• Extensive systems knowledge in a manufacturing environment required (Oracle/Cobra/ProPricer /OpenPlan)
• Collaborative, proactive, good problem solver, results oriented, high energy; demonstrates urgency, fast pace and ability to multi-task
• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills and the ability to effectively interface with and advise senior management and staff
• Experience mentoring and developing staff
• Review basis-of-estimate labor and material costing for Firm-Fixed Price (FFP)/Cost-Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF)/Time-and-Material (T&M) proposals
• Ensure Percentage of Completion actuals and forecasts on FFP contracts are incorporated into weekly/monthly/quarterly forecasts
• Work closely with Program Managers and Engineering, and Program Finance leads to maintain accurate EAC forecasts for all contract types
• Bachelor's degree is required
• An active clearance would be preferred

Locations:

This candidate must be able to work out of one of our East Coast locations including:

• Hudson, NH
• Andover, MA
• West Lafayette, IN
• Chantilly, VA

Travel: 5-10%

"This position requires you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. government."

Additional Information

Mercury considers a variety of factors to determine individual base salary offers to candidates, including:

* the role and related responsibilities;* prior work experience;* education, training, skills and certifications;* internal equity with others employed by Mercury in similar roles;* geographic location; and* alignment with market data. In addition to base salary, Mercury provides a variety of benefits for team members including: * bonus opportunities (or special incentives for sales positions);* health, life and disability insurance;* company-paid holidays and time off;* 401(k) retirement plan;* discounted employee stock purchase plan;* tuition reimbursement; and Team members at the Director or Vice President level are also eligible to receive annual stock-based awards. Mercury offers a 9/80 alternative work schedule that provides employees more opportunity for work/ life balance (available based off location)

Security Clearance

None

Export Requirements

This position may require you to access information that is subject to U.S. export regulations. You may only access such information if you are a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual.

Why Mercury?

Why should you join Mercury Systems?

Our Culture

We are committed to making Mercury a great place to work, no matter where our employees are located. We offer a casual and enjoyable atmosphere that allows employees to learn and grow. We help and care for one another and work as one to achieve results for us and for our customers. We value communication and transparency, and strive to foster two-way dialogue at all levels of the organization. We are committed to lifelong learning, offering comprehensive skills training and tuition reimbursement. Whether you're just starting out on your career journey or you are an experienced professional, it's important to us that you feel recognized and rewarded for your contributions.

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Mercury Systems is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, creed, citizenship, disability, protected veteran or marital status.