Financial Analyst II

Goodrich Actuation Systems
Cedar Knolls, New Jersey

Goodrich Actuation Systems (GAS) is a market leader in the supply of actuation systems, providing a full range including primary and secondary flight controls for fixed wing aircraft, main and tail rotor actuation for helicopters, engine and nacelle actuation, missile and guided weapons control actuation, and utility actuation such as the weapons bay door on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

Headquartered in Wolverhampton, England, Goodrich Actuation Systems has over 2,000 employees world-wide with design, development, and manufacturing capability in the United Kingdom, United States, France, and Canada, and joint ventures in Spain and Indonesia.

GAS has over 50 years of experience in delivering solutions, for both civil and military applications. Our rotary and ball screw actuator systems alone have accumulated more than 135 million flying hours. Every Airbus aircraft in production uses Goodrich flight controls with more than 45,000 fly-by-wire actuators that have accumulated in excess of 600 million hours in-service experience.

Applicants must qualify for access to U.S. export-controlled technology without a license. Non-immigrant visas will not be sponsored for this position. Applicant must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident, or a designated refugee or asylee under U.S. law.


This position requires the candidate to provide full and timely financial support to monitor, analyze and control engineering design and development programs, pre-full rate production engineering programs, pre-bid efforts and ongoing engineering support work at the Cedar Knolls, New Jersey engineering facility of Goodrich Actuation Systems. This position will require excellent analytical and communication skills due to the interaction between the engineering team leads, directors of engineering, program managers, and all other areas of the organization affected by these engineering programs. Duties will include coordinating, managing and reporting on engineering programs.Coordinating, managing and reporting on the engineering programs from a finance perspective monthly, or as needed. Generating consistent feedback and reporting throughout the Actuation organization with regards to Estimates to Complete, Actual Cost to Date and Estimates at Completion. Tracking actual performance versus original bids/assumptions and collating lessons learned to improve accuracy on future bid submissions. Support the introduction of an Earned Value analysis of program performance and the development of standard work for performance tracking and reporting.

The candidate should be able to handle routine tasks without supervision and interact solely, or as a member of a group outside of the Finance team. Routine tasks as well as specific assignments will be conveyed onto this person monthly and the person must exhibit ownership of those assigned tasks and routine responsibilities.

Position will report to the Actuation Business Area Controller and will have dotted line responsibility to the Actuation unit - Director's of Engineering - Vergennes and Cedar Knolls, Director of Business Development and Manager of Programs. From time to time the successful candidate may be required by the company to perform other tasks which are not included in the above description, but are within the capabilities of the individual and where necessary training will be given. There will be no direct reports for this position.

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration.

3 to 5 years of program financial analysis experience in a manufacturing and/or engineering environment.

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