Senior Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Financial Analyst to join our finance team. The Senior Financial Analyst will play a key role in driving financial initiatives and analysis, providing strategic insights, and supporting decision-making processes across the organization.

Strategic Planning:

• →Conduct financial modeling, report creation (systems and database) and analysis to assess the financial impact of strategic decisions.
• →Develop a vision for finance operations and drive initiatives to achieve strategic objectives.

Forecasting and Risk Management:

• →Identify and assess financial risks and opportunities, including market trends, competitive dynamics, and regulatory changes.
• →Drive process improvements, system implementations and organizational change.
• →Identify emerging trends, technologies, and best practices.
• →Monitor financial controls, policies and procedures.

Proposal Pricing and Price Negotiation:

• →Collaborate with stakeholders to develop pricing strategies for proposals and contracts.
• →Participate in price negotiations with clients or vendors to maximize profitability while ensuring competitive pricing.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• →Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams, to align financial objectives with business goals and labor forecasts.
• →Serve as a trusted advisor and financial resource to department heads and senior leadership.

• Experience in being a thought leader by leading financial transformation initiatives, planning, and strategic decision support.
• Advanced proficiency in financial modeling, Excel, and financial planning software (e.g., Sage, SAP, Oracle).
• Experience reporting SaaS-related metrics at various levels of an organization
• Experience with finances and pricing to the Federal Government
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and draw actionable insights.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.
• Proven track record of driving results and influencing business decisions through financial analysis and strategic thinking.

Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.

We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.

Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.

• Kubernetes
• Cloud Environments (AWS/GCP and Azure)
• Infrastructure-as-code (like Terraform/Pulumi)
• Continuous Delivery and automation tooling
• GitOps
• Containers
• CNCF projects and open source products and packages
• Helm/Kustomize-Value Stream Mapping
• Building and improving security delivery
• Building Kubernetes and cloud native applications

• Medical/Dental/Vision
• Premiums are 100% Company Paid
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance

• 401k Retirement Plan
• Company Stock Options
• Home Office Budget

• We offer all full-time Unicorns Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s
• Paid Parental Leave

• Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
• Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)

Don’t have all the preferred experience or qualifications? Studies show that underrepresented groups like women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs if they don't meet every requirement listed. 

At Defense Unicorns, we're committed to diversity. If you're enthusiastic about the role but don't match every criteria, we encourage you to apply. You could be the perfect fit for this or another role! Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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