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Director, Finance - Profitable Growth Strategy)

L3HARRIS Technologies

Tallahassee, FL · Posted October 15, 2026

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About the job

Job Title: Director, Finance - Profitable Growth Strategy

Job Code: 46208

Job Location: Melbourne, FL or Remote Opportunity

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

L3Harris Corporate Headquarters is seeking a Director, Finance. The Director will run a newly established Independent Review function responsible for ensuring the company’s proposal offerings enable the right long-term financial outcomes. This role will be responsible for performing Independent Cost Estimate reviews to evaluate the financial uncertainty in the bid process and execution confidence. The Director will additionally partner with functional leadership across the company to drive estimating expectations and a professional estimating framework to support the proposal process.

The ideal candidate has had experience working large proposal activities, and has led aspects of independent cost / proposal reviews. The candidate should be detail oriented with good organizational skills and capable of multi-tasking, with an ability to work with minimal day-to-day supervision. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated ability to evaluate all aspects of financial data generated for a proposal offering, including labor and material estimates, subcontract quotes, special contract clauses, and cash flow models.

Essential Functions:

Creation and maintenance of a Corporate Independent Cost Estimate Review calendar

Preparation of Independent Cost Estimate outputs to drive decision making at Segment and Corporate proposal reviews

Advise on any functional estimating initiatives, and help establish estimating factors to more easily evaluate bids

Partner with Program Excellence organization to coordinate joint Non-Advocate Reviews, Baseline Reviews, and Program Assessment Reviews as required

Develop Independent Review discipline within finance in order to build and expand a review team

Travel up to 25% of the time

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 15 years of prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 19 years of prior related experience.

Minimum of 12 years experience in defense contracting environment, proposals, and financial positions.

Preferred Additional Skills:

Good communication and presentation skills

Strong analytical capabilities

Capable in modeling, scenario analysis

Able to successfully work across mutliple functions

Able to meet deadlines and operate to short timeline efforts

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C, Denver, or NYC areas is $151,000- $281,000. The salary range for this role in Colorado state, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New York state, and Vermont is $131,500-$244,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

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