The Digital Modernization Sector of Leidos has an immediate need for a Senior Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Analyst to join our Practices and Mission Driver Enablement Center (MDEC) organization in Reston, VA. The DigMod Practices and MDEC have been designed to bolster our technical capabilities and enhance collaboration across the enterprise. Mission Drivers 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 Practices Finance Director.
Duties of this position will include but are not limited to:
- Work with a team of analysts to manage financial planning and execution aspects for the MDEC organization, at 700+ FTEs and $100M+ in annual expenses.
- Manage portfolio of service centers of varying categories and varying allocation types.
- Support weekly and monthly tracking, EAC reviews, and customer reporting.
- Support 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.
- Support the reporting of overhead budgets, charge codes and cost allocation.
- Work closely with the MDEC 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 Mission Drivers.
- Work with Sector FP&A, Government Compliance and other stakeholders to support the evaluation and implementation of strategic changes in accounting practices.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years of applicable Finance & Business Operation (F&BO) / Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) experience or Master's Degree with 6+ years of applicable F&BO/FP&A experience
- Demonstrated experience supporting a portfolio of programs of varying complexity, size and type in defense contracting industry
- 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- 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
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Original Posting:June 10, 2026For 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.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are framed as a strong component of total rewards, highlighted by a 401(k) match and immediate vesting in the standard package. The Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also presented as an additional long-term wealth-building feature.
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