# Senior Manager, Program Finance (R5319)

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Dallas, Texas
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 140,000-210,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Manager of Program Finance to lead financial execution, forecasting, and business partnership across key programs.

This role will serve as a strategic finance partner to Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business Development, and Executive Leadership.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in defense program finance, thrives in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, and can balance financial rigor with the speed required in a high-growth company.

Responsibilities include:

- Improving visibility into program performance

- Strengthening forecasting discipline

- Driving EAC and risk/opportunity processes

- Helping program teams make better business decisions

- Building processes where they do not exist

- Improving existing reporting and financial cadences

- Developing a team capable of supporting Shield AI’s continued growth

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field

- 8+ years of relevant experience in program finance, finance leadership, FP&A, pricing, or related aerospace/defense finance roles

- Experience supporting defense, aerospace, government contracting, or complex engineering/manufacturing programs

- Strong understanding of program financial management, including EACs, forecasting, variance analysis, risk/opportunity tracking, and program performance reporting

- Experience partnering directly with Program Managers and cross-functional teams to drive financial outcomes

- Strong understanding of contract types, especially fixed-price programs, and how contract structure impacts financial strategy, risk, and execution

- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills

- Ability to translate operational, technical, and program inputs into clear financial insights and recommendations

- Experience presenting financial performance, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership

- Proven ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and drive results in ambiguous or fast-changing environments

- Experience leading, mentoring, or developing finance team members

Preferred qualifications:

- MBA, CPA, or advanced degree in a related field

- 10+ years of experience in defense, aerospace, or government contracting finance

- Prior experience managing a program finance team or leading finance support across a portfolio of programs

- Experience with pricing, proposals, BOEs, and new business capture support

- Experience with manufacturing, supply chain, production finance, or hardware-based programs

- Experience building or improving finance processes in a high-growth or less mature environment

- Familiarity with ERP, planning, and reporting tools such as Costpoint, SAP, Oracle, Power BI, or similar systems

- Experience supporting fixed-price production programs with material, labor, margin, and cash flow complexity

- Familiarity with government contracting requirements, including FAR/DFARS, earned value concepts, and cost accounting principles

- Active or prior security clearance

Benefits:

- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

Note: Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

## Skills

### Required
- program finance
- finance leadership
- FP&A
- pricing
- aerospace/defense finance
- EACs
- forecasting
- variance analysis
- risk/opportunity tracking
- program performance reporting
- financial modeling
- Excel

### Nice to have
- MBA
- CPA
- defense finance
- aerospace finance
- government contracting finance
- manufacturing finance
- supply chain finance
- production finance
- hardware-based programs
- ERP
- Costpoint
- SAP
- Oracle
- Power BI

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