Senior FP&A Analyst

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.

• 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 as Revenue, EBITDA, Bookings, Cash, DWC and DSO.
• Perform data reconciliation and consolidation, as well as variance analysis.
• Conduct 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 and support the BA leadership team with data‑driven analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant finance planning and analysis experience or Master’s 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.

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.