Senior FP&A Analyst

Senior FP&A Analyst at Leidos summary:

The Senior FP&A Analyst at Leidos plays a critical role in supporting business area-wide financial planning, forecasting, and reporting, including revenue, EBITDA, cash flow, and backlog metrics. This position collaborates with leadership and various departments to perform variance analysis, cost control, and strategic financial planning to inform decision-making. The role requires extensive experience in financial analysis tools and defense contracting industry knowledge, reporting directly to the Business Area CFO.

Description

The Business Area (BA) Senior FP&A Analyst is a key role in the Finance organization responsible for supporting BA-wide financial analysis and reporting. This position will support the financial forecasting of revenue, EBITDA, cash/working capital, backlog, and other financial metrics for the BA on a recurring basis, including monthly actual analysis, fiscal year projections, and the yearly AOP and multi-year strategic plan. This role reports directly to the Business Area CFO.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide support and expertise to the BA’s financial planning and analysis teams.
• Collaborate with management BA-wide to create forward looking financial projections for cash and backlog and provide accompanying analysis.
• Provide recommendations and execute plans to improve financial processes and improve business process capabilities
• Track performance against key AOP metrics such Revenue, EBITDA, Bookings, Cash, DWC and DSO.
• Perform data reconciliation and consolidation, as well as variance analysis.
• Perform multiple financial cost analysis functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that maintain the company's cost accounting system.
• Collaborate with Business Development to understand and forecast pipeline, book to bill and backlog metrics
• Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports.
• Support key weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables that track and communicate the performance of the business’s key metrics.
• Support the consolidated planning of Revenue, EBITDA, Cash and Balance Sheet accounts.
• Provide support to the organization in all audits, reviews, data requests, etc. during the current quarter and fiscal year.
• Directly interface with various functions within the Sector and BA and serve as a resource to various stakeholders.
• Support long-term strategic planning, including process development, presentation creation, and partnering between finance and strategy.
• Ad-hoc business performance reporting.
• Identify and communicate areas of concern to both operational and financial leadership when identified in a timely manner. • Support the BA leadership team with data-driven analysis.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant finance planning and analysis experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Proficient with Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Insight, and Oracle Analytics (OAC).
• Expertise in quantitative analysis and presentations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with BA and Sector leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
• Candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with internal customers.
• Prior defense contracting industry experience.

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Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and 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.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit .

Pay and Benefits

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

Keywords:

Financial planning and analysis, FP&A, Revenue forecasting, EBITDA analysis, Cash flow management, Variance analysis, Cost control, Strategic financial planning, Defense contracting finance, Financial reporting