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AGI operates where commercial technology innovation meets government mission requirements, with finance leadership playing a critical role in enabling compliant growth, disciplined execution, and operational resilience.\nYou Are\nYou are a strategic, business-focused finance executive who has led finance organizations where financial decisions directly affect national security customers, competitive positioning, operational resilience, and enterprise growth. You are comfortable functioning as a CFO for a mission-critical business while operating within a matrix organization to the parent companyfinance function and shared services teams.\nYou understand that finance in a defense and government contracting environment is not only about reporting results; it is about making deliberate choices on investment, pricing, forecasting, controls, cost structure, compliance, capital allocation, and risk. You know how to translate complex financial, contractual, and regulatory obligations into operationally sound business processes that enable leaders to move with confidence.\nYou have earned credibility with executive leaders, program teams, finance shared services, auditors, and parent company stakeholders by balancing speed with compliance, supporting growth while protecting enterprise assets, and preserving contractual integrity. You operate comfortably at both altitudes: advising the VP & GM and senior leadership on business strategy while also ensuring the financial operating cadence, controls, forecasts, and decision support are accurate, timely, and actionable.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nFinance Leadership & CFO-Level Business Partnership\nFunction as the CFO-like finance leader for AGI, serving as the principal financial advisor to the VP & GM, AGI executive leadership team, and parent company finance stakeholders.\nDevelop and execute the finance strategy for AGI, aligning financial planning, forecasting, reporting, controls, investment decisions, and operating rhythms with business priorities and government program requirements.\nLead executive-level financial reviews, business performance discussions, long-range planning, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, headcount planning, cost optimization, and investment tradeoffs.\nTranslate financial results, risks, and opportunities into clear business recommendations for senior leaders, parent company finance, board/proxygovernanceparticipants, auditors, and business partners.\nMatrix Organization to Parent Company & Shared Services\nOperate effectively in a matrix organization to the parent company finance function, partnering with corporate FP&A, controllership, accounting, tax, treasury, procurement, payroll, revenue, systems, internal audit, and shared services groups.\nBuild strong operating mechanisms with parent company finance and shared services to ensure AGI gets scalable, compliant, andtimelysupport whilemaintainingclear business ownership and AGI-specific decision accountability.\nRepresent AGI requirements in parent company planning, budgeting, systems, controllership, policy, and reporting processes, ensuring finance delivery reflects the needs of a defense-oriented operating model.\nPartner with parent company finance leaders tomaintainalignment on financial policies, controls, reporting, revenue recognition, internal audit expectations, and enterprise governance.\nFP&A, Forecasting, Financial Reporting & Business Decision Support\nOwn AGI financial planning and analysis, including annual budget, long-range plan, rolling forecast, monthly business reviews, variance analysis, KPI reporting, scenario modeling, and executive dashboards.\nDevelop driver-based financial models for revenue, bookings,ARRor recurring revenue metrics where applicable, program costs, laborutilization, headcount, margin, working capital, and cash flow.\nProvidebusiness insights that improve P&L performance, pricing discipline, cost structure, investment prioritization, program profitability, and resource allocation across AGI.\nPartner with Sales, Contracts, Legal, Product, Security, Program Management, and Operations to evaluate growth initiatives, proposal economics, non-standard deals, strategic investments, and risk-adjusted profitability.\nGovernment Contracting Finance, Compliance & Controls\nLead finance support for an organization servingDepartmentof Defense, Intelligence Community, aerospace, defense, space, microelectronics, and federal customers, emphasizing mission assurance and compliant execution.\nPartner with Legal, Contracts, Compliance, Security, and parent company finance to support federal acquisition, DFARS/FAR, cost allowability, indirect cost, labor charging, contract accounting, export control, and audit-readiness expectations as applicable.\nMaintain strong financial governance, internal controls, documentation, and management review processes that support GAAP, corporate policy, SOX/internal control requirements, and government contracting expectations.\nSupport audit readiness and responses for internal audit, external audit, customer inquiries, government agency reviews, and other compliance matters, ensuring issues are surfaced, tracked, and remediated with discipline.\nCommercial Finance, Deal Support & Growth Enablement\nPartner with sales and business development teams to assess opportunity economics, pricing, discounting, deal structure, license or SaaS terms, renewal dynamics, customer profitability, and margin impact.\nProvide strategic finance support during proposal, capture, contract negotiation, program ramp, and post-award execution phases, balancing commercial speed with contractual, financial, and compliance requirements.\nDevelop financial analyses for new markets, product offerings, customer segments, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, integrations, and investments that support AGI growth goals.\nImprove forecast accuracy, contract financial visibility, revenue predictability, and cross-functional decision quality through disciplined operating cadence and data-driven insights.\nTeam, Systems, Process & Governance\nBuild, mentor, and lead a high-performing finance team or matrixed finance operating model with strong ethics, accountability, customer service, analytical rigor, and business partnership.\nImprove finance processes, reporting tools, planning systems, controls, data quality, BI dashboards, and operating routines to increase efficiency, visibility, and decision velocity.\nEstablish finance metrics that matter, not metrics that simply look good in presentations, enabling executive visibility into performance, risk, cash, margin, bookings, revenue, program execution, and operational resilience.\nUse AI-enabled and automation tools responsibly to improve forecasting, reporting, variance analysis, and financial insight generation whilemaintainingcontrol, privacy, and human oversight.\nThe Impact You Will Have\nYour finance leadership will enable AGI to compete for and deliver high-value government and commercial opportunities with sharper forecasts, stronger controls, and better investment decisions.\nYour CFO-level partnership will give AGI executive leadership clear visibility into financial performance, business risk, program economics, and growth tradeoffs.\nYour matrix partnership with the parent company will ensure AGI receives the benefits of enterprise-scale finance systems and shared services while preserving the business intimacy required for a mission-driven subsidiary.\nYour governance, controls, and audit-readiness frameworks will reduce organizational risk and help leaders pursue opportunities with confidence in the financial operating model.\nYour data-driven operating cadence will improve decision quality across sales, programs, product, legal, contracts, security, operations, and executive leadership.\nWhat You'll Need\n12+ years of progressive finance, FP&A, controllership, corporate finance, business finance, or government contracting finance experience, including senior leadership responsibility in a complex organization.\nDemonstrated success serving as a CFO, divisional CFO, business unit finance leader, or senior finance partner for a business with material revenue, complex customers, regulated requirements, or matrixed enterprise support.\nExperience in aerospace, defense, federal contracting, national security, software/SaaS, advanced technology, semiconductor, engineering simulation, or similarly regulated industries strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, revenue, bookings, margin analysis, cost controls, cash flow, headcount planning, capital allocation, management reporting, and executive decision support.\nWorking knowledge of U.S. GAAP, corporate controls, SOX/internal controls, audit readiness, business systems, and finance operations; familiarity with FAR/DFARS, CAS, DCAA/DCMA, labor charging, indirect rates, or government program finance is highly desirable.\nBachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related fieldrequired; MBA, CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent credential preferred.\nAbility to work with U.S. government customers and within a defense-oriented operating environment; active or prior U.S. security clearance is preferred where applicable.\nWho You Are\nStrategic thinker with strong business acumen, financial judgment, and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information while balancing risk and opportunity.\nClear, confident communicator who translates financial complexity into business terms that resonate with executives, operators, parent company stakeholders, auditors, and government-facing teams.\nCollaborative and influential in a matrix organization, able to build trust across AGI leadership, parent company finance, shared services, Legal, Contracts, Program Management, Sales, Product, Security, and Operations.\nDisciplinedoperatorwho can createa reliablefinance cadence, diagnose performance issues, simplify complexity, and hold the organization accountabletomeasurable outcomes.\nHigh-integrity leader who protects confidentiality,maintainscontrol discipline, and models sound judgment in high-stakes financial, contractual, and compliance situations.\nThe Team You'll Be Part Of\nYou will join a high-growth AGI 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The role will partner directly with the VP & GM and AGI leadership while operating in close matrix alignment with the parent company finance organization and relevant shared services functions. The right leader will help establish the financial operating model required for AGI to scale with discipline, transparency, and confidence.\nAt Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.\nIn addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can share more specific details on the total rewards package upon request. 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