Senior Financial Operations Analyst, Boeing

>> Hi, my name is Victor Cregor [phonetic]. I am a Penn State alum of 2010 and I studied finance at the Smeal School of Business. My current title is Senior Financial Operations Analyst at the Boeing Company. A senior financial operations analyst role usually includes performing earned value management activities such as tracking cost and schedule on a weekly and a monthly basis to provide execution, recommendations to the management team to help them execute an international contract. So there aren't really typical workdays. Some of the reporting aspects of the job are recurring. So on a weekly basis, I might run the same report or contact the same people. Meet with the program manager and the chief engineer to make sure to provide them status on how we're performing and where are some of the financial risks are on our contract. And maybe some recommendations of how we could mitigate some of these risks and on a quarterly basis, we perform what is known as an estimate at completion which, in basic terms, we try to figure, you know, when we finish our program how much of the money can we transfer over into earnings. You know how much money can we save for the company? And so every quarter we do the report and we provide the report to our senior management and you know, we go through all the reviews and you know work with all the teams to make sure it's -- we get a complete package. A typical workday for me is usually 7 to 5. It really varies especially when we're in our estimate at completion reporting. We definitely work a little bit of longer hours because of, you know, the nature of the amount of people that we really have to involve in the process and really the amount of reviews we have to hold. Sometimes, you know, it's not uncommon to work a few weekends too but you know, that's only every quarter. So once every 3 months.