Financial Analyst – JPL Careers

Job Description:

As a Financial Analyst III, you will conduct timely and relevant analysis of historical and forecast data, to provide reports that will assist executive management in strategic fiscal decision-making.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate and/or lead in a variety of initiatives, including but not limited to, streamlining budgetary process and business system/tools enhancements.
• Develop and run financial models for forecasting future business profile scenarios and associated workforce requirements.
• Employ advanced methods for complex financial modeling and “what-if” analysis that provide decision-making information within given scenarios.
• Analyze, assess and report on performance against business forecasts.
• Prepare financial recommendations and presentation deliverables at the C-suite level, i.e. CFO and Management Council Chairs.
• Develop, monitor and report on the burden budget and cost rates and factors.
• Provide in-depth institutional insight and strategic input on complex financial issues to senior management.
• Conduct burden rate analysis and impacts to project costs.
• Participate in the restructuring of burden cost rates, including rate application scenarios and project impact assessments.
• Design and develop complex financial reports that require selection, preparation and interpretation of data, using sophisticated query tools across multiple data sources.

Job Requirements:

• Excellent communication, organization, and customer service skills.
• Ability to apply appropriate judgment and make sound recommendations and decisions.
• Extensive understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, and concepts of financial planning, business/organizational analysis, accounting, information technology, and business processes.
• Demonstrated expert knowledge of developing indirect rates and factors.
• Demonstrated ability to generate and conduct effective high-level executive briefings on complex financial topics.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and meet commitments, including deadlines and budgets.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interact with all levels of management.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and/or work in a team environment.

Qualification & Experience:

• Wide-ranging experience and advanced expertise in one or more related fields of knowledge: Cost Accounting Standards (CAS) and the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or Business Management, or related discipline, with a minimum of 6 years related experience; or a Master’s degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 4 years of related experience; or PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 2 years related experience.

Job Details:

Company: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pasadena, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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