Director of Finance

Maryland, Columbia FREQUENTIS USA, Inc. From now on Full timeFrequentis USA Inc. is dedicated to creating a safer world. With over 75 years of experience, Frequentis understands controllers in safety critical situations encounter new challenges daily. Our mission is to develop and market highly reliable, optimized, custom-tailored, and user centric communication and information systems for mission critical solutions. As an industry leader in voice communication data information systems, we create a safer world through integration, digitalization, and automation while maintaining world class safety standards. We proudly serve many U.S. government agencies including the FAA, DoD, and NASA. Safety as our number one priority pushes us to constantly learn about the ever-changing needs in safety critical environments to deliver innovative solutions.Key Tasks? Serve as the financial leader of the company, reporting directly to the President.? Provide strategic financial oversight, guiding the company’s financial planning, reporting, and compliance.? Lead the finance team, ensuring efficient operations and robust financial systems.? Identify financial, project and business risks. Implement & monitor corrective actions on time & within budget to drive business performance and increase profitability.? Collaborate with the Leadership Team to identify growth opportunities, develop viable business plans, and execute them effectively.? Drive the digital transformation and optimization of financial processes, including the implementation of IT-based finance tools.? Oversee financial and commercial aspects of the company’s Government contracts and business activities.? Direct the annual budget, monthly rolling forecast procedures, financial commitments and obligations.? Prepare and present financial reports, forecasts, and recommendations to Executive Management and the Parent Company.? Overseeing the monthly, quarterly, year-end close, and manage the financial audits.? Analyze financial trends, costs, revenues, and obligations to support strategic decision-making and predict future performance.? Oversight of earned value management.? Participation in proposal activities, RFP reparation.? Working out and implementation of tax strategies.? Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and internal policies.? Implement transfer pricing rules incl documentation.? Treasury activities and cash management.? Managing invoicing on time and in alignment with milestone completion to optimize liquidity.? Liaise with auditors, tax and Governmental authorities, legal advisors, tax advisors and banks.? Ownership of financial systems and compliance with group policy.? Define and maintain accounting principles, practices, procedures, and initiatives.? Creates business plans, financial models to support strategic decision making.? Digital transformation and process optimization along the entire financial, accounting, cost accounting, project forecasting incl EVM procedure to increase efficiency? Approver of strategic investments, purchase orders, budget requests and salary structure of the company.? Other duties as assigned.Key Qualifications? Bachelor’s / master’s degree in finance, economics, business management and a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.? Leadership, Change and Organizational renewal experience.? Experience in U.S. Government contracting.? Program finance cost control experience.? Knowledge of financial planning and analysis of business procedures.? Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (is a must) and strong skills with Microsoft Office applications.? Familiarity with reporting, business Intelligence tools, database/warehouse skills and analysis tools.? Hands-on experience with Deltek, Cobra.? Experience with SAP is a plus.? Strong ability to multi-task and prioritize, being able to work under pressure and deal with deadlines.? Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, and dynamic team environment.? Strong desire to process, tooling improvement.Our ValuesFrequentis USA is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.Around 2,100 employees are committed to creating a safer world with their innovative strength and technology orientation. Our culture is based on a working environment characterized by fairness and trust, mutual respect and appreciation. As an international company, we value this diversity and recruit regardless of age, gender, origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religion. We value fair and good working conditions, an optimum work-life-balance and offer all our employees equal development opportunities. In doing so, we focus on long-term working relationships in order to keep the valuable know-how of our employees stable.Benefits:We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance• Health Savings Accounts• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance• Employee Assistance Program• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.• Bonus PlanTRUST-BASED MODERN MENTORING TRAININGSWORKING HOURS IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAMBenefits:We are committed to supporting our mission through the following employee benefits:• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance• Health Savings Accounts• Competitive 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting• Employee Life Insurance & AD&D• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance• Employee Assistance Program• Generous holidays, including a full week off from December 25 to January 1• PTO that scales with tenure and sick leave• Company-sponsored team-building activities to boost morale and productivity.• Bonus PlanTRUST-BASED MODERN MENTORING TRAININGSWORKING HOURS IT-EQUIPMENT PROGRAMSalary Your individual salary is based on your professional experience and qualifications and is part of our attractive total package.Apply now"Frequentis stands for safe, open & family-friendly corporate culture, we hire for personality & train skills. People & their values matter to us. That's why I'm not only interested in your skills, but also in your personal passion and commitment."Become part of Frequentis and apply now - our CV parsing will make your application easier and faster!At Frequentis we don’t just create innovations,we create a kind of wonderto make the world a safer place.READ MORE ABOUT FREQUENTIS CAREER AWARDS #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17