The Business Area (BA) Senior FP&A Analyst is a key role in the Finance organization responsible for supporting BA-wide financial analysis and reporting. This position will support the financial forecasting of revenue, EBITDA, cash/working capital, backlog, and other financial metrics for the BA on a recurring basis, including monthly actual analysis, fiscal year projections, and the yearly AOP and multi-year strategic plan. This role reports directly to the Business Area CFO.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide support and expertise to the BA’s financial planning and analysis teams.
- Collaborate with management BA-wide to create forward looking financial projections for cash and backlog and provide accompanying analysis.
- Provide recommendations and execute plans to improve financial processes and improve business process capabilities
- Track performance against key AOP metrics such Revenue, EBITDA, Bookings, Cash, DWC and DSO.
- Perform data reconciliation and consolidation, as well as variance analysis.
- Perform multiple financial cost analysis functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that maintain the company's cost accounting system.
- Collaborate with Business Development to understand and forecast pipeline, book to bill and backlog metrics
- Apply principles of accounting to analyze financial information and prepare financial reports.
- Support key weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting deliverables that track and communicate the performance of the business’s key metrics.
- Support the consolidated planning of Revenue, EBITDA, Cash and Balance Sheet accounts.
- 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 Sector and BA and serve as a resource to various stakeholders.
- Support long-term strategic planning, including process development, presentation creation, and partnering between finance and strategy.
- Ad-hoc business performance reporting.
- Identify and communicate areas of concern to both operational and financial leadership when identified in a timely manner. • Support the BA leadership team with data-driven analysis.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant finance planning and analysis experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.
- Proficient with Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Insight, and Oracle Analytics (OAC).
- Expertise in quantitative analysis and presentations.
- Ability to effectively communicate with BA and Sector leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization.
- Candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with internal customers.
- Prior defense contracting industry experience.
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Original Posting:December 15, 2025For 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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