Finance Director - Navy

SAIC; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 200,001 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Reston, VA seeks a Finance Director to support the VP and Operations Manager within the Navy Business Unit. The role demands sharp financial acumen, strong leadership, and a bias for action to drive solution-oriented outcomes.

Responsibilities include leading internal financial functions for a $400M operation, forecasting, and close reporting, while guiding program control staff and collaborating with Business Development on major captures. Target salary range is $200,001–$240,000.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting with 15+ years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years of leadership experience in an accounting or finance role.
• Knowledge of federal government contracting in a Professional Services environment.
• Strong financial acumen and ability to communicate with senior leadership.
• Polished communicator with experience developing others and building teams.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day internal business and financial functions for a $400M operation.
• Direct and develop Program Control Managers and staff; ensure compliance with policies.
• Oversee quarterly forecasting, period close reporting and variance analysis.
• Prepare financial information for executive and program leadership to guide decisions.
• Support Business Development on large capture and proposal efforts to ensure sound deals.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration and disseminate guidance to stakeholders.
• Manage staff assignments, budgets, and priorities for FP&A teams.
• Contribute to new business process concepts and techniques.

Skills

Financial leadership

Excellent communication

Excel proficiency

Gov contracting knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting

MBA (desired)

Tools

Deltek Costpoint

Oracle EPM

Hyperion

PowerBI

Job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Finance Director who will support the Vice President and Operations Manager within SAIC's Navy’s Business Unit and will work closely with all functional organizations. The ideal candidate must have sharp financial acumen, strong interpersonal skills and a passion for dynamic leadership and team building. This future member of our team will possess a bias for action, orientation towards creating solutions, and the ability to communicate effectively both horizontally and vertically within the enterprise.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading the day-to-day internal business & financial functions of a dynamic $400M Operation to include implementing long range financial goals and objectives.

• Leadership of Program Control Managers and program control staff and ensuring compliance with program control and company policies and procedures.

• Responsible for quarterly forecasting, period close reporting and detailed variance analysis to aid in the management of the operation.

• Prepare and distribute financial information and analysis within required deadlines and ensure that the information provided is concise, relevant, and understandable to assist executive, operation, and program level leadership in making intelligent business decisions.

• Provide support to Business Development team on large capture and proposal efforts to ensure new business deals are financially sound and accretive to the portfolio.

• Facilitate effective communications and relationships with line and functional departments, interpret policy/guidance and effectively disseminate to stakeholders.

• Responsible for staff assignments, managing budgets and setting priorities for Operation Program Control and Operation Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) managers and staff.

• Directly contributes to the development and implementation of new business process concepts and techniques.

• Regular interaction with functional peer groups (Contracts, Procurement, HR, Compliance, etc) and senior management requiring the ability to gain cooperation of others.

• Provide training and guidance to staff and develop process improvements to current policy and procedures that affect operations

• Assist with complex proposal development, contract negotiations and administration of contracting activities utilizing sound business judgment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Finance or Accounting discipline with 15+ years of relevant experience.

• 5+ years of leadership experience in an accounting or finance role.

• Knowledge of federal government contracting in a Professional Services environment.

• Strong financial acumen.

• Polished communicator with experience developing others & creating strong teams.

• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office Suite.

Desired Skills/Education:

• Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA).

• Experience using Deltek Costpoint, Oracle EPM, Hyperion, and PowerBI.

Target salary range: $200,001 - $240,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability