Associate Director - FP&A - Government Contracting - Private Equity Advisory

What You'll Do:

• Serve clients within the “Office of the CFO” at private equity portfolio companies, creating a diagnostic framework and enhancing the effectiveness of the finance function.
• Serve as a subject matter expert with deep expertise in the Government Contracting (“GovCon”) industry vertical, working directly with portfolio company management and sponsors to drive financial planning, indirect rate strategy, and compliance-aligned reporting across GovCon investments.
• Lead the development, calculation, and operationalization of scalable wrap rate processes and planning tools across portfolio companies, ensuring alignment with DCAA requirements and contract pricing strategies. These activities may include:
  • Build and refine indirect rate structures, provisional billing rates, and rate variance analyses to support accurate job costing and profitability tracking.
  • Developing and optimizing planning and reporting tools tailored to cost-plus, T&M, and FFP contracts.
  • Develop bid/proposal pricing support, including rate build-ups, should-cost analyses, and competitive positioning for new business capture.
• Lead the implementation of a financial management capability, including multi-year financial modeling and annual target-setting processes, translating strategic targets into annual and monthly operating/capital budgets and forecasts.
• Prepare financial and operational management reports, comparing current actual and year-to-date performance with prior year results, forecasts, and budgeted results, and help to identify and implement associated KPI reporting.
• Assess the current state and build or modify analytical resources, tools, models, metrics, and methodologies to enhance decision-making support. This includes building models to calculate and assess financial covenants and operating requirements outlined in debt agreements.
• Review and assist with treasury and cash flow forecasting activities, such as banking, investments, derivative management, debt repayment, and liquidity management, and develop or enhance 13-week cash flow forecast models.
• Develop and maintain relationships with portfolio company representatives and private equity sponsors, collaborating with CrossCountry team members to scope, clarify, and deliver excellent client service.
• Contribute to developing and implementing firm-approved, AI-enabled solutions for clients, in accordance with company policies on data protection, intellectual property, and professional standards.
• Stay informed about emerging AI tools and techniques and collaborate with firm leadership to identify compliant opportunities to enhance client solutions and internal processes.
• Actively participate in business development opportunities and market a full range of services to prospective clients, including using existing relationships to generate new opportunities.
• Mentor team members by coaching colleagues, providing regular, ongoing feedback and annual performance reviews, and helping project teams resolve multifaceted issues.

What You'll Bring:

• 9+ years of corporate FP&A and/or consulting experience, with exposure to middle-market, private equity-owned businesses and significant experience in the GovCon space.
• Experience addressing the unique requirements of the middle-market consulting environment, including knowledge of the relationship between private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, with a bias toward action over perfection and the ability to switch between strategic narrative and detailed analysis.
• Deep industry experience in the GovCon sector, ideally in the middle-market space, with the ability to serve as an FP&A generalist on select engagements outside the industry.
• Experience bridging technical FP&A skills with hands-on knowledge of DCAA/DCMA compliance, cost accounting standards, and government contract economics.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and operationalizing wrap rates and indirect rate structures for government contractors.
• Strong working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, CAS, and DCAA audit processes; incurred cost submission experience using the ICE model is strongly preferred.
• Consistent success in building and developing strong client relationships.
• Diverse industry experience that may include manufacturing, SaaS, healthcare, and business services, among others.
• Experience conversing with the controller group and accounting team, including fluent knowledge of the main elements and drivers of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows.
• Strong understanding of cash flow dynamics, debt structures and covenant reporting, value creation plans, and exit and diligence processes.
• Advanced financial modeling skills paired with judgement to keep models practical and decision-focused.
• Advanced expertise with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with data analytics and related tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, SQL, Snowflake, etc.)
• Knowledge of key technology solutions within the Office of the CFO, including leading GovCon ERP and EPM platforms such as Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, JAMIS, OneStream.
• Comfort with AI: Demonstrated ability to responsibly explore and adopt firm-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation.
• Continuous Learning Mindset: Openness to learning and applying emerging technologies including AI and automation in alignment with firm policies and client standards.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and helping project teams resolve multifaceted issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Willingness to travel up to 40%. Travel varies based on client preferences.
• Preference for candidates based in DC Metro area.
• U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Residency (Green Card) strongly preferred given the nature of client engagements, which may require access to controlled unclassified information (CUI), export-controlled data, or government facilities.