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.

The Financial Services Lead will collaborate with government stakeholders, program leadership, financial professionals, and cross-functional teams to support budget formulation, budget execution, financial analysis, program planning, and mission success. This individual will lead a team of budget analysts while serving as a trusted advisor to customer leadership on financial strategy, execution performance, and resource management.

Primary Responsibilities

Financial Leadership & Program Management

• 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.

Budget Formulation, Execution & Analysis

• 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.

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• 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.

Customer Engagement & Stakeholder Management

• 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.

Workforce Planning & Staffing

• 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.

Award Fee, Performance Management & Program Oversight

• Lead award fee support activities by collecting data, coordinating stakeholder inputs, developing supporting documentation, and preparing comprehensive award fee submissions that accurately reflect program accomplishments and mission success.
• Support program performance management activities through the development of performance metrics, key performance indicators, and…