Senior Program Finance Analyst

The Maritime Business Area within the Leidos Defense Sector has an immediate opening for a Sr. Program Financial Analyst to support programs and new business initiatives in the Maritime Surface Division. This high-paced, fast-growing organization provides significant opportunities to solve highly complex problems and significantly influence the division’s results.

As a key member of the program team, you will work directly with the program managers to help define each program's financial goals and objectives; create and maintain a program's budget, analyze progress reported against the program baseline; identify risks and opportunities against the program baseline; and recommend actions to improve progress to achieve flawless program execution. Additionally, this position will support various capture and proposal efforts across the division, providing financial insights into proposal teams, developing cash flow analysis and supporting business case and profitability analysis to drive the long-term growth of the organization.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Serves as a subject matter expert and provides mentorship across the program finance team and other key stakeholders in the organization

• Prepare and present financial forecasts, reports and analysis.

• Provide hands-on support and strategy development for on-contract growth and new business proposals and help develop winning bids.  Provide insights and roadmap for successful financial execution

• Work closely with other functional areas on financial related elements while managing a programs general ledger, and monitoring program cash flow.

• Develop and drive financial forecasts and EACs; Manage subcontractor and analyze the programs revenue and costs.

• Help Program Managers identify programmatic risks and opportunities that will impact program financials while recommending cost reductions and ways to mitigate risk.

• Responsible for financial performance of the program to include the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Monthly/Quarterly forecast and

• Support month-end closing process and perform variance/trend analyses

• Cash management as well as timely submittal of invoices, collections and unbilled reduction.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or a related discipline plus 8+ years of related program financial control experience. 

• Prior experience should include government contracting industry

• Demonstrated knowledge of multiple contract types: FFP, FPLOE, T&M, Cost Plus and hybrid contracts. 

• Strong experience in developing and driving financial forecasts and EACs

• Experience in managing subcontractors, completing accruals, and analyzing the program’s revenue and costs.

• Analytical, communication and presentations skills needed as well as being able to operate independently. Create and present monthly internal and external customer reports.

• Understanding of proposal color reviews and capture process

• Demonstrated history of personnel leadership, collaboration, business acumen, relationship building, and self-motivation

• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience with Leidos financial systems such as Costpoint, Cognos, Oracle Analytics, Fusion and other Leidos financial systems

• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and PowerBI.

• Experience with Leidos’ new business and business development processes.

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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.