Senior Finance Manager

Description & Requirements

Maximus is seeking a Senior Finance Manager.

You will be responsible for overseeing all financial aspects of project management, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and compliance.

This role partners closely with project and division leadership to track performance, identify cost efficiencies, and ensure accurate and timely client invoicing.

The Senior Manager will lead a team of finance professionals, provide supervision and guidance, and ensure adherence to company policies.

This is remote position.

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.

Project Specific Job Duties:

- 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,n 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 Direc...