Principal Financial Analyst

Description

The Digital Modernization Sector of Leidos has an immediate need for a Principal Financial Analyst to join our Practice Areas (PA) and Repeatable Offerings (RO) organization in Reston, VA. The DigMod Practice Areas and Repeatable Offerings have been designed to bolster our technical capabilities and enhance collaboration across the enterprise. Repeatable offerings are scalable capabilities aligned with our practices, with the intent to drive growth, efficiency, and commonality across our programs. This 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 tasking. The 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 Practice Area Finance Director.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage all financial planning and execution aspects for the Repeatable Offerings organization, at 700+ FTEs and $100M in annual expenses.
• Manage portfolio of 10+ RO service centers of varying categories and varying allocation types.
• Support weekly and monthly tracking, EAC reviews, and customer reporting.
• Oversee 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.
• Administer and report overhead budgets, charge codes and cost allocation.
• Work closely with the PA and RO 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 ROs.
• Work with PA and RO organization to recommend and implement new solutions, processes, and standards in support of strategy and operations.
• Work with Sector FP&A, Government Compliance and other stakeholders to evaluate and implement strategic changes in accounting practices.

• Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years of applicable operation finance or financial planning and analysis experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting a portfolio of programs of varying complexity, size and type
• Strong leadership skills with prior people management or team leadership responsibility
• 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 and able to obtain security clearance as needed

• 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