Financial Analyst III

Role and Responsibilities

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers' training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

Summary

As a Financial Analyst with CAE you will be part of a program team that is responsible for maintaining total project cost excellence in areas of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance on Estimates at Complete (EACs), Annual Operating Plan (AOP) forecasting, cost reporting and variance analysis.

This position can be based in Dothan, AL; Tampa, FL; Arlington, TX or Colorado Springs, CO but could require occasional travel to any of the Training Centers within the Training Centers portfolio.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Candidate must demonstrate a desire to dig into the details and report data with attention to detail.

• Accounting data mining, extraction, and reconciliation.

• Development of time-phased, integrated budgets.

• Monitor costs and manpower ensuring that actuals are within budget and charged to the correct end objective.

• Provide regular internal reports on cost and schedule performance to Program Leadership.

• Customer CDRL Reporting.

• Estimate at Completion development and maintenance.

• Bookings, Sales, Profit, and Cash forecasting

• Other duties as required.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Desired candidate will have experience in the government contracting space.

• Bachelor's Degree with 5-7 years of relevant experience

• Strong background in project controls/program controls/business management including proficiency with, cost analysis, and forecasting in a services environment.

• Complete understanding of concepts and techniques related to program controls. Concepts include but are not limited to forecasting, strategic planning, variance analysis, process improvement, etc.

• Experience working with hard deadlines, specifically regarding close deadlines.

• Good mathematical and analytical skills.

• Exceptional Excel skills: Advanced excel formulas (pivot tables/formulas, sum if, vlookup, if statements, get pivot), tables, formatting, modeling.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to interact with various functional organizations.

• Ability to perform ad-hoc analysis, data integrity checks, and reconciliations required.

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Required to sit and/or stand for prolonged periods of time.

• Ability to communicate verbally.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we're proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.