Program Financial Manager

Job Location

National Capital Region (NCR), Centreville, Virginia

$150,000 - $175,000/Annually

The Program Financial Manager provides strategic financial leadership and oversight for a large, complex, multi-billion-dollar federal program consisting of 38 concurrent projects. This role delivers authoritative leadership over program- and project-level budgeting, financial formulation, cost tracking, cash flow management, and compliance, ensuring fiscal integrity, transparency, and real-time financial visibility across the entire program portfolio.

The position serves as the primary financial authority and advisor to senior government leadership, program executives, and external stakeholders.

• Serve as the senior financial authority for the program, overseeing all budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and financial reporting activities.

• Provide strategic financial guidance to program leadership to support informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and long-term fiscal planning.

• Lead the integration of financial management practices across multiple project teams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance.

• Develop, manage, and maintain multi-year program budgets totaling several billion dollars, ensuring alignment with agency priorities, Congressional appropriations, and execution plans.

• Oversee formulation, execution, and reconciliation of annual and life-cycle budgets.

• Lead financial forecasting and scenario analysis to anticipate funding needs, cost trends, and potential variances.

• Establish and enforce robust financial controls to monitor expenditures, obligations, and burn rates across all projects.

• Analyze cost performance, identify variances, and implement corrective actions to maintain cost efficiency and schedule alignment.

• Ensure accurate cost estimating, earned value management (EVM), and life-cycle cost analysis, as required.

• Ensure full compliance with federal financial management regulations, agency policies, OMB guidance, and appropriations law.

• Support audits, inspections, and reviews by internal and external oversight entities, including GAO and OIG.

• Maintain audit-ready documentation and ensure timely resolution of financial findings and recommendations.

• Prepare and deliver high-quality financial reports, briefings, and dashboards for senior leadership and external stakeholders.

• Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Coordinate closely with contracting officers, project managers, engineers, and acquisition teams to align financial data with program execution.

• Lead and mentor project-level financial analysts supporting the program’s 38 projects.

• Promote best practices in federal program financial management and continuous process improvement.

• Foster collaboration across program, acquisition, and operational teams.

• Extensive experience in federal program or portfolio financial management, preferably supporting large-scale infrastructure or construction programs.

• Demonstrated experience managing multi-billion-dollar budgets and complex, multi-project portfolios.

• Strong knowledge of federal financial systems, appropriations law, OMB guidance, and federal acquisition financial practices.

• Proven ability to lead financial planning, execution, and reporting at the enterprise program level.

• Exceptional analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Experience supporting DHS or other federal homeland security, defense, or infrastructure programs.

• Familiarity with Earned Value Management (EVM) and large construction program cost controls.

• CPA, CFA, PMP, or equivalent professional certification.

This role is critical to ensuring disciplined financial stewardship, transparency, and successful execution of a complex, high-visibility federal program. The Program Financial Manager directly contributes to safeguarding taxpayer resources while enabling mission success.