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



















