Vice President of Finance

Full Time Exempt

Position Overview

The newly established Vice President of Finance will serve as a strategic and operational leader responsible for strengthening financial performance, cash flow, forecasting, compliance, and reporting across a specialized defense contracting business. This individual will report directly to the CEO and partner closely with executive leadership to support customized contract work, government contracting requirements, pricing strategy, treasury management, board reporting, and potential M&A activity. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in defense or government contracting finance, including FAR/DFARS, indirect rate structures, forward pricing, overhead pools, and cash management.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on, business-minded finance leader who thinks operationally, anticipates risk, and brings structure without slowing the organization down. This person should be comfortable working in a agile environment, capable of moving between strategic Board-level conversations and detailed contract/cash-flow problem solving. The role requires a collaborative, direct, and pragmatic leader who can earn trust across finance, operations, ownership, and external stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the finance function with accountability for accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, treasury, internal controls, and management reporting.
• Provide executive-level financial insight to the CEO, senior leadership team, and Board, including clear reporting on business performance, risks, contract economics, and forward-looking financial strategy.
• Oversee defense contracting finance requirements, including FAR, DFARS, cost allowability, indirect rates, forward pricing, rate pools, overhead allocation, and contract profitability.
• Partner with operations and program leadership to improve project-level financial visibility, contract execution, bid support, pricing discipline, and margin performance.
• Strengthen cash forecasting, working capital management, commercial banking relationships, and treasury processes to support business stability and growth.
• Support M&A activity, diligence, integration planning, and financial stewardship for ownership or parent-company reporting requirements.
• Manage financial reporting across domestic and international entities, including coordination with external advisors and accounting firms where multiple accounting standards, currencies, or jurisdictions apply.
• Develop scalable finance processes, systems, controls, and reporting routines appropriate for a growing, customized-contract environment.
• Take responsibility for managing, coaching, and mentoring a team of finance professionals to ensure their professional growth and successful contribution to organizational goals.

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Senior Embedded Software Engineer – TX

Full Time Exempt

Position Overview

As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer, you will work on major weapons programs integrating complex mission systems. You lead teams of developers and provide strategic guidance to our clients. You understand and influence multi-system architecture and translate into concrete tasks for yourself and the broader team. You are an ambassador for Lone Star working on the most challenging portions of our clients’ portfolios.

Due to government clearance requirements, this position requires that the applicant be a United States Citizen.  Legal residents do not meet this requirement.  All work will be performed on-site, in person at a secure facility. This is not a remote work position.

This position requires the ability to fulfill duties and responsibilities such as:

• Design and code software products for Lone Star and Lone Star clients
• Provide senior guidance and architecture reviews for existing and proposed systems
• Ability to meaningfully contribute as a senior individual contributor to complex weapon systems
• Collaboration in a dynamic, team-based environment
• Must Have at Least a DoD Secret Level Clearance, with ability to obtain Special Access Program (SAP) approval

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
• A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience developing C / C++ software for embedded defense applications
• Experience with real-time or low-level system development.
• Experience with DevSecOps practices, including automated builds, testing, and secure integration workflows and working within Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or similar).
• Active DoD Secret Level Clearance

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