Federal Pricing and Compliance Manager
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Kleinfelder, Inc. is seeking a Federal Pricing and Compliance Manager to join our Federal Contracts and Compliance team responsible for supporting the
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management and administration of U.S. Government contracts, including compliance with pricing provisions and clauses of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and agency FAR supplements and regulations including federal, state and local municipalities and prevailing wage laws; leading the development and implementation of pricing strategies to maximize profitability and minimize company risk; providing strategic advice to the Chief Financial Officer on U.S. Government cost and pricing compliance; reviewing, improving and developing effective processes to ensure compliance with U.S. Government regulations; and ensuring the company’s compliance, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and internal policies and procedures. This role involves complex data analysis, competitive pricing analysis, and collaboration with various departments to ensure pricing strategies align with overall business objectives. The successful candidate will have strong technical and analytical capabilities, ability to quickly understand and synthesize complex business data sets and collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams including Contracts, Finance, Human Resources, and Operations.
Responsibilities:
Federal Pricing
• Review and interpret solicitation requirements; identify and develop questions addressing contractual requirements that impact pricing compliance and strategy and mitigate related risk.
• Develop cost and pricing exhibits designed to provide compliant and responsive proposal response.
• Lead all cost volume content development, management, and publication prior to submission, including client solicitations, contract modifications, requests for equitable adjustments, and terminations for convenience
• Develop and communicate pricing requirements in the proposal planning process
• Build and populate pricing templates to facilitate identification and population of staff within the estimating data – interacting with Operations, Procurement, and outside sources as necessary
• Develop, communicate, and execute pricing strategies within proposals
• Assist in obtaining and negotiating subcontractor/supplier quotes
• Coordinate and lead pricing reviews with Contracts, Senior Leadership, and other departments as necessary
• Perform cost/price/profitability analysis on federal contracts
• Provide pricing compliance training and company pricing policies and procedures awareness to finance, accounting, and operations personnel
• Identify and lead opportunities to continuously improve pricing training, methodologies, templates, and skills
• Prepare and/or review cost estimates and ensure prevailing wage cost rates are used, where applicable
• Interfacing with U.S. government and commercial personnel on pricing inquiries and audits
• Provide guidance and recommendations during project setup to ensure pricing compliance
• Conduct internal audits on federal projects to ensure company policies/procedures and government regulations are being met and followed
Compliance
• Ensure adherence to Davis-Bacon Act, Service Contract Act (SCA), and applicable state/local prevailing wage laws.
• Monitor and interpret prevailing wage and fringe benefit requirements for specific job classifications and geographic areas.
• Experience submitting annual incurred cost proposals to the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and overhead submissions to state transportation agencies.
• Leadership experience ensuring the company’s compliance with government cost accounting rules and regulations, including application of indirect cost rates, pr