Director – FP&A, Government Contracting, Private Equity Advisory

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Director leading Government Contracting FP&A advisory for CrossCountry Consulting’s private equity portfolio clients. Driving finance transformation, pricing, compliance, and value creation.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve clients within the Office of the CFO at private equity portfolio companies
  • Create diagnostic frameworks and enhance finance function effectiveness
  • Serve as a GovCon subject matter expert for portfolio company management and sponsors
  • Drive financial planning, indirect rate strategy, and compliance-aligned reporting
  • Lead scalable wrap-rate processes and planning tools aligned with DCAA requirements and contract pricing strategies
  • Build and refine indirect rate structures, provisional billing rates, and rate variance analyses
  • Develop and optimize planning and reporting tools for cost-plus, T&M, and FFP contracts
  • Develop bid and proposal pricing support, including rate build-ups, should-cost analyses, and competitive positioning
  • Develop relationships with portfolio company representatives and private equity sponsors
  • Collaborate with CrossCountry team members to scope, clarify, and deliver client service
  • Identify growth and shared revenue opportunities to expand the FP&A capability offering
  • Oversee end-to-end FP&A engagement delivery, including scoping, staffing, client communication, and quality control
  • Provide strategic thought leadership across concurrent engagements involving forecasting, budgeting, cash flow, liquidity, performance reporting, KPI frameworks, interim FP&A support, and finance diagnostics
  • Develop repeatable delivery playbooks, templates, tools, and methodologies
  • Identify industry developments and articulate impacts on clients
  • Contribute to compliant, firm-approved AI-enabled client solutions and internal processes
  • Stay informed about emerging AI tools and techniques
  • Lead the coaching family as a role model, coach, mentor, and liaison to leadership
  • Deliver client solutions as part of CrossCountry’s Private Equity practice, supporting portfolio value creation
  • Contribute to business development, team leadership, junior team member development, and CrossCountry leadership

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of senior FP&A and/or consulting experience
  • Significant exposure to middle-market, private equity-owned businesses
  • Significant experience in the Government Contracting (GovCon) space
  • Experience addressing private equity consulting environments and sponsor–portfolio company relationships
  • Experience building and mentoring high-performing FP&A teams
  • Deep GovCon industry experience, ideally in the middle-market space
  • Experience bridging technical FP&A skills with DCAA/DCMA compliance, cost accounting standards, and government contract economics
  • Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and operationalizing wrap rates and indirect rate structures
  • Strong working knowledge of FAR, DFARS, CAS, and DCAA audit processes
  • Incurred cost submission experience using the ICE model strongly preferred
  • Strong understanding of cash flow dynamics, debt structures, covenant reporting, value creation plans, and exit and diligence processes
  • Advanced financial modeling skills
  • Strong verbal and written executive communication skills
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and switch between strategic narrative and detailed analysis
  • Knowledge of best practices for optimizing finance functions
  • Proficiency with GovCon ERP and EPM platforms such as Deltek Costpoint, Unanet, JAMIS, and OneStream
  • Experience with data analytics tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, Snowflake, SQL, and Python
  • Demonstrated ability to responsibly explore and adopt firm-approved AI tools
  • Openness to learning emerging technologies, including AI and automation
  • Proven ability to generate leads from a network outside existing client work
  • Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and resolving multifaceted issues
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
  • Willingness to travel up to 40%
  • Preference for candidates based in the DC Metro area
  • U.S. Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Residency status is strongly preferred

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive healthcare options, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Generous parental and maternity leave policies
  • Technology stipends
  • Wellness reimbursement programs
  • Professional growth support
  • Equal employment opportunity and compliance with pay transparency and labor laws