Job Description

Description

Leidos has an opening for a Group FP&A Director to support our Defense Group in Reston - VA. This is a key role in the Finance organization responsible for group-wide financial analysis and reporting. This position is responsible for the financial forecasting of revenue, operating income, cash, and backlog for the Group on a recurring basis, including monthly actuals analysis, fiscal year projections, and the yearly annual operating plan (AOP) and multi-year strategic plan. In addition, this position will be responsible for the coordination of several Group-level F&BO responsibilities, including but not limited to capital planning, indirect budget management, and consistent financial reporting throughout the Group. This role reports directly to the Defense Group Chief Financial Officer and is based out of Reston, Virginia.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and develop a team of FP&A analysts
• Provide oversight, effective communication and clear direction to the Operations\xe2\x80\x99 financial planning and analysis teams
• Drive a culture of rigorous analysis and value-added insight generation throughout the FP&A teams within the Defense Group, including at the Operations level
• Assist in establishing short- and long-range Group financial goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Create forward looking financial projections for all of the accounting statements and accompanying measurements.
• Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecast
• Measure performance against key AOP metrics such as Revenue, Expense, Operating Income, Cash, DWC, DSO, Backlog and book-to-bill.
• Perform data reconciliation and consolidation, as well as variance analysis.
• Perform multiple financial cost analyses functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that maintain the company\'s cost accounting system.
• Lead analysis of projects that deliver key insights for making critical business decisions.
• Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports.
• Maintain or oversee the control of accounts and records in such areas as disbursements, expenses, tax payments, and income.
• Responsible for the support of key weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables that track and communicate the performance of the business\xe2\x80\x99s key metrics
• Responsible for supporting the consolidated planning of all Cash and Balance Sheet accounts.
• Rate management activities, including the creation and support of Forward Pricing Rate Submissions and Audit.
• Responsible for the assessment of Defense Group account balances and has a continuous focus on improved accuracy and forecasting methodologies.
• 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 Defense Group and serve as a key liaison and resource to various stakeholders both internal and external to the Defense Group.
• Support long-term strategic planning, including process development, presentation creation, and partnering between finance and strategy.
• Ad-hoc business performance reporting
• Develop, prepare and present financial materials to Group and Corporate Finance leadership, incorporating key business insight and recommendations to achieve current and future goals.
• Identify and communicate areas of concern to both operational and financial leadership when identified in a timely manner.
• Work with cross-functional teams including contracts, procurement, revenue accounting, technical accounting, AR, AP, program excellence and treasury organizations.
• Support management team and the Heads of Department with data-driven analysis
• Implement and maintain a business intelligence tool and dashboard reports
• Perform business case and ROI analysis.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree and 12+ years of prior relevant experience in FP&A or Master\'s degree with 10+ years of prior FP&A related experience.
• 7+ years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects.
• Proficient with Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Expertise in quantitative analysis and presentation.
• Broad experience presenting, interacting and influencing C-level executives
• Familiarity with the Hyperion Financial Reporting tool
• Ability to effectively lead and develop a team of high potential finance professionals, as well as provide direction and oversight to the Operations finance teams.
• Candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.

Pay Range: Pay Range $128,050.00 - $197,000.00 - $265,950.00

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.

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