Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

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This position is with Jariet Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of CesiumAstro. Jariet is developing breakthrough technologies to permit digital communications technology to be applied at micro/mm-Wave speeds using standard CMOS processes. Jariet is well positioned to provide ASIC products into emerging markets in multi-antenna beamforming communications systems and wireless infrastructure as well as digital deployments into microwave point-to-point links and radar systems. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.

We are looking to add a Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst to our team. The position will be based in Redondo Beach, CA and will be supporting our subsidiary, Jariet Technologies. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about making an impact in a growing company, we would like to hear from you. 

In this position, you will play a key role in supporting the overall financial health and direction of the company while simultaneously focusing on foundational business operations. You will be responsible for preparing budgets, developing forecasts, performing variance analyses, and project finance modeling. You will have the ability to affect change and collaborate with the entire team to exponentially grow both Jariet Technologies and Cesium Astro. Your contributions will play an essential role in supporting the companies through hyper-growth as you forecast the future while scaling both revenue and internal relationships.

• Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of future operations.
• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analyses to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward. 
• Working closely with the Cesium Astro Finance Team, meeting their deadlines and responding to questions.
• Researching key financial ratios of industry peers and benchmarking company data.
• Evaluating company financial data to ensure investments are the best use of capital by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other ways the company could utilize cash. 
• Leading program budgets/baseline controls, earned value management systems (EVMS), and ensuring all required finance inputs, including internal and external reporting, are prepared, reviewed, and submitted on time. 
• Evaluating potential program and product opportunities to determine costs and profitability. 
• Building out support processes for proposals that include, but are not limited to, developing cost volumes, basis of estimates (BOEs), and roll-ups of non-recurring efforts (NREs), recurring efforts (REs), and materials.
• Evaluating financials for each department and working with individual departments to prepare budgets and forecasts and consolidate into corporate budgets and forecasts. 
• Preparing internal reports for executive leadership to support decision-making. 
• Evaluating inorganic growth opportunities and mapping out capital and investment plans. 
• Generating three- to five-year financial forecasts. 
• Extracting Big Data sets and consolidating into useful analytics. 
• Developing dashboards and key metrics to track the business and inform strategy.