Senior Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Analyst

The Digital Modernization Sector of Leidos has an immediate need for a Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst to join our Practices and Mission Driver Enablement Center (MDEC) organization in Reston VA. The DigMod Practices and MDEC have been designed to bolster our technical capabilities and enhance collaboration across the enterprise. Mission Drivers are scalable capabilities aligned with our practices with the intent to drive growth efficiency and commonality across our position provides direct support to internal customers with varying needs.A successful candidate will be a confident self-starter and will have the ability to react to flexible candidate will have strong interpersonal skills and will be comfortable working closely with a team of analysts as well as interacting with senior leadership across all organizations. This role reports to the Practices Finance Director.

Duties of this position will include but are not limited to:

• Work with a team of analysts to manage financial planning and execution aspects for the MDEC organization at 700 FTEs and $100M in annual expenses.
• Manage portfolio of service centers of varying categories and varying allocation types.
• Support weekly and monthly tracking EAC reviews and customer reporting.
• Support the monthly sales close activity.
• Lead monthly/quarterly forecasting budgeting and financial reporting processes across a range of programs and projects.
• Provide variance analysis for the period quarter and year by cost element.
• Coordinate multiple financial cost analysis functions including cost allocation setting up cost control systems collecting data controlling costs and preparing reports.
• Support the reporting of overhead budgets charge codes and cost allocation.
• Work closely with the MDEC Finance and Leadership teams and service center customers to achieve efficient and accurate reporting and issue resolution.
• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy reporting tools and process automation.
• Conduct financial analyses and provide recommendations to support adoption and scaling of Mission Drivers.
• Work with Sector FP&A Government Compliance and other stakeholders to support the evaluation and implementation of strategic changes in accounting practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with 8 years of applicable Finance & Business Operation (F&BO) / Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) experience or Masters Degree with 6 years of applicable F&BO/FP&A experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting a portfolio of programs of varying complexity size and type in defense contracting industry
• In-depth understanding of program control budgeting forecasting and financial analysis
• Experience with financial reporting including variance analysis
• Strategic vision with ability to work new business captures business case analyses
• Ability to present complex financial data to senior executives in a clear concise manner
• Demonstrated analytical ability attention to detail and accuracy and creative thinking and problem solving ability
• Proficient in Excel PowerPoint Deltek Costpoint Oracle Analytics Cloud Cognos Fusion SCOPE/SCAR and similar financial systems
• U.S. Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in a matrixed organization supporting both line operations and functional objectives
• Financial government contracting experience such as pricing program finance FP&A indirect rates
• Experience collaborating with virtual teams across functional and/or operational areas
• Familiarity with Leidos CAS segment structure accounting practices indirect rate pools and allocations

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.