Financial Services Lead

Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Financial Services Lead to support a high-visibility Intelligence Community customer within a challenging, dynamic, and mission-focused environment in the Virginia and Maryland area. The successful candidate will serve as a senior leader responsible for planning, directing, and overseeing financial services supporting a large DNI contract. This position requires extensive experience in Intelligence Community budgeting, program financial management, workforce leadership, customer engagement, and strategic resource planning.

• Lead the Financial Services Area supporting a high-visibility DNI contract, providing strategic direction, operational oversight, and financial management expertise across multiple customer portfolios.
• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of budget analysts and financial professionals, including recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and professional development activities.
• Serve as a key member of program leadership responsible for financial planning, execution oversight, resource management, and mission support.
• Provide strategic recommendations to government and contractor leadership regarding priorities, funding allocations, staffing strategies, financial risks, and long‑range planning initiatives.
• Lead special projects, strategic initiatives, and executive‑level analyses in support of customer and program leadership requirements.

• Lead budget formulation, execution, and analysis activities across multiple organizations and customer portfolios.
• Develop and evaluate fiscal program builds and future‑year budget requirements while coordinating with multiple Intelligence Community agencies and stakeholders.
• Participate in and provide subject‑matter expertise throughout the Intelligence Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (IPPBE) process.
• Have extensive knowledge of Congressional Budget Justification Books (CBJB), Program Objective Memorandums (POM), budget exhibits, funding requests, and executive-level financial briefings.
• Have extensive knowledge of spend plans, track commitments, obligations, expenditures, and execution performance, and provide recommendations to optimize resource utilization.

• Lead the preparation, analysis, and review of Estimates at Completion (EACs), financial forecasts, trend analyses, and program financial health assessments.
• Develop, review, and validate Basis of Estimate (BOE) packages supporting contract modifications, staffing requirements, customer initiatives, funding requests, and strategic planning activities.
• Develop recommendations to mitigate risks, improve execution performance, and maximize program efficiency.

• Serve as the primary liaison between government customers, program leadership, subcontractors, corporate leadership, and functional support organizations.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior government stakeholders.
• Provide timely responses to customer inquiries, funding requests, action items, and executive-level information requirements.
• Coordinate and facilitate recurring customer engagements, monthly program reviews, financial reviews, staffing discussions, execution reviews, and strategic planning meetings.
• Develop executive-level briefings, reports, and metrics that communicate program performance, financial status, risks, opportunities, and resource requirements.

• Conduct workforce planning activities to support mission requirements and future growth initiatives.
• Partner with recruiting teams to identify staffing needs, review candidate qualifications, conduct interviews, and support hiring decisions.
• Support onboarding activities and workforce development initiatives to ensure programs remain fully staffed and capable of meeting customer expectations.
• Monitor staffing trends and provide recommendations regarding workforce requirements, labor utilization, and resource allocation.