Financial Planning & Analysis – Lead Analyst, C...

The Leidos Corporate Finance Group is actively seeking a FP&A Analyst Lead to join our Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This exciting role offers the opportunity to hone your financial story telling skills starting from detailed analysis and planning to presenting to Senior Leadership. You’ll consider yourself a Finance Business Partner to Corporate Functions, ensuring that functional spending is aligned with company strategy. Responsibilities will include planning, forecasting, reporting, and overall budget maintenance. In addition, you can expect to perform ad hoc modeling and other requests that drive operational and strategic efficiencies within the business.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support, enhance and maintain financial reporting
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership to formulate accurate expense forecast
• Update and maintain quarterly forecast in financial system
• Deliver monthly expense variance analysis
• Provide analytical support and actionable financial insights
• Be a Finance Business Partner to the function

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with 4+ years of applicable FP&A experience. Additional years of relevant FP&A experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Prior experience should include financial forecasting, and variance analysis
• Strong skills in Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps), Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Microsoft SharePoint, and ability to learn new applications.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, using advanced formulas to generate efficiency
• Demonstrated analytical ability
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Creative thinking and problem-solving ability
• Excellent communication skills
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with financial reporting
• Experience with business development/capture/proposal activities
• User of Leidos Financial and Business Development systems including Costpoint, Insight, OAC, and WinIT
• Knowledge of database management systems and data warehousing concepts
• Data/configuration management experience
• Working knowledge of government accounting regulations (CAS, FAR, GAAP)

At Leidos, we don’t want someone who fits the mold—we want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” before the dust settles on “what’s now.”

If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

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.