[Hiring] Director, Finance @L3Harris Technologies

Role Description

L3Harris Corporate Headquarters is seeking a Director, Finance. The Director will run a newly established Independent Review function responsible for ensuring the company’s proposal offerings enable the right long-term financial outcomes. This role will be responsible for performing Independent Cost Estimate reviews to evaluate the financial uncertainty in the bid process and execution confidence. The Director will additionally partner with functional leadership across the company to drive estimating expectations and a professional estimating framework to support the proposal process.

The ideal candidate has had experience working large proposal activities, and has led aspects of independent cost/proposal reviews. The candidate should be detail oriented with good organizational skills and capable of multi-tasking, with an ability to work with minimal day-to-day supervision. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated ability to evaluate all aspects of financial data generated for a proposal offering, including:

• Labor and material estimates
• Subcontract quotes
• Special contract clauses
• Cash flow models

Essential Functions:

• Creation and maintenance of a Corporate Independent Cost Estimate Review calendar
• Preparation of Independent Cost Estimate outputs to drive decision making at Segment and Corporate proposal reviews
• Advise on any functional estimating initiatives, and help establish estimating factors to more easily evaluate bids
• Partner with Program Excellence organization to coordinate joint Non-Advocate Reviews, Baseline Reviews, and Program Assessment Reviews as required
• Develop Independent Review discipline within finance in order to build and expand a review team
• Travel up to 25% of the time

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience
• Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience
• Minimum of 12 years experience in defense contracting environment, proposals, and financial positions

Requirements

• Good communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Capable in modeling, scenario analysis
• Able to successfully work across multiple functions
• Able to meet deadlines and operate to short timeline efforts

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAP
• Education assistance
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Company-paid holidays