Senior Manager of Military Costing

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Job Description:

Are you a FAR-compliant costing expert ready to take the helm of high-stakes government proposals? We are looking for a Senior Manager of Military Costing to drive the financial architecture behind our most critical domestic and international opportunities. Reporting directly to the Head of Costing and Offer Evaluation, you will bridge the gap between complex federal regulations and business profitability. If you have over 10 years of experience navigating FAR 12/15 and a knack for mentoring high-performing teams, your leadership will be the catalyst for our next phase of growth.

Meet The Team:

Our Finance and Accounting team members need excellent analytical and communication skills to optimally run our financial portfolio. We provide key analytics – from month-end closing to performance management analysis for our partners. If you’re analytical, detail oriented and have a passion for numbers, you’ll enjoy working with our cross-functional international team.

Your Working Environment:

A suburb just outside the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is home to Airbus Helicopters U.S. regional headquarters, where we have more than 1,000 employees. Check out one of the seven professional sports teams that also call Dallas home - you may even see a special, custom Airbus helicopter dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys flying during home games.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.

Your Challenges:

Costing:  35%

• Oversees cost and pricing for a range of proposals to include both domestic and international opportunities and ranging in size of complexity. 

• Ensure costing information provided is timely, accurate and supportable in response to requests

• Act as primary point of contact for company responses to U.S. Government agency (i.e. DCAA) audits

• Collaborates with other departments to gather information needed in a timely fashion to meet deadlines

• Able to garner information needed from other departments in a timeline fashion to meet deadlines.

• Ensures functional areas understand what substantiation is required to support their estimates for each proposal

Business Cases:  35%

• Create business cases which provide management sufficient cost, margin and price information and analysis for proposed and established prices to support business decisions.

• Leads finance offer evaluation process to retrieve approvals needed for release of offer.

Staff Management and Development:  20%

• Manage, develop, mentor and coach staff to ensure staff exhibit company core values and behaviors, interact professionally with the team/company/external parties, and maintain and/or improve those skills and knowledge necessary to adequately perform their assigned jobs.

• Provides training as needed to colleagues on templates that could be used for gathering costing information for proposals.

• Foster innovative mind-set in order to continually improve processes and ways of working.

Proposal Development:  10%

• Creates basis of estimates (BOE) for proposals, if required, as justification for pricing to customer.  Ability to train team and colleagues on the use of BOEs for proposal development.

• Contribute to writing of pricing content in proposals submitted to the customer.

• Meets company internal and customer external requirements necessary for contract negotiations and award

Your Boarding Pass:

• BS Accounting or Finance or equivalent in experience and education

• Minimum of ten (10) years’ experience preparing FAR 12 type U.S. Government Proposals

• Understanding of FAR 12 commercial item contract requirements

• Microsoft Office: Excel, PowerPoint, Word

Travel Required:

• 5% Domestic and International

Citizenship:

• Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)

Physical Requirements:  

• Onsite or remote:  95% Onsite
• Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings.   Daily
• Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms.   Daily
• Speaking:  able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications.   Daily
• Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts.   Daily
• Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs.  2-3 times a year, carries 5-10lbs. on a daily basis.
• Lifting:  able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs. 2-3 times a year, carries 5-10 lbs. on a daily basis
• Pushing / Pulling:  able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools.  Daily
• Sitting:  able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer.  Daily
• Squatting / Kneeling:  able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.  Several times a week
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor.  Daily
• Travel:  able to travel independently and at short notice.  Monthly
• Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents):  able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces.   Daily
• Personal Protective Equipment required:  Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as required by site and/or customer site
• Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

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A full job description will be provided to candidates who progress to the interview stage or any candidate upon request.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus Helicopters, Inc.

Employment Type:

US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:

Professional

Remote Type:

On-site

Job Family:

Leadership

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