Senior Financial Analyst

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The Digital Modernization Sector brings together our digital transformation and IT programs, allowing us to better serve our customers through scale and repeatability.
 - https://www.leidos.com/capabilities/digital-modernization
 
We are seeking a talented and energetic candidate to work with the best and brightest employees around the country in creating innovative all-encompassing solutions for our programs.  You will work in a fast-paced and diverse environment, enjoy flexible work arrangements, and will have a management team that encourages your career development and growth. In this role, you will gain many intangible skills, such as time and task management, critical thinking and problem solving, the ability to communicate complicated problems in a concise manner, as well as solve complex problems using available tools.
 

Leidos has an opening in our Digital Modernization Sector for a talented and energetic Senior Financial Analyst to work with the best and brightest employees around the country in creating innovative all-encompassing solutions for our programs.  You will work in a fast-paced and diverse environment, enjoy flexible work arrangements, and will have a management team that encourages your career development and growth.  This is a key contributor role for a Leidos focus program with total contract value over $2B and annual revenue north of $100M that delivers IT solutions to our NASA customer.  

Primary Responsibilities:

•    Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, forecasting (inventory, cash, and capital management) and effectively managing inventory risks and opportunities.
•    Collaborate with program team and across Leidos functions to define program cash goals, establish inventory budget, and support EAC.
•    Proposal involvement (pricing and cost volume leadership) and building internal and external relationships to grow the program and achieve strategic goals.
•    Make recommendations to leadership for making business decisions.
•    Develop & continuously drive reporting process and system enhancements to increase speed, consistency and accuracy of KPI reporting.
•    Support ad-hoc cost reporting and performance analysis.
•    Develop Annual planning and quarterly forecasting of Inventory & associated cash flow impacts, coordination of key drivers with various functional areas and updating planning models as the business evolves
•    Create robust internal reporting to provide necessary information to senior management and program stakeholders
•    Provide management with timely, accurate, and insightful financial analysis to monitor inventory results and enable strategic decision-making.
•    Assist with identifying potential accounting issues and driving the resolution to ground
•    Provide inventory support and guidance to Warehouse, Supply Chain and Service Delivery to ensure proper charging and process compliance
•    Thoroughly review inventory balances for accuracy and compliance
•    Deployment plan forecasting and variance analysis activities for Supply Chain and Service Delivery
•    Conduct monthly closing process including journal entries (JE’s) for proper inventory/cost cutoff
•    Slow moving and obsolete inventory reserve analysis and quarterly adjustments; review with management
•    Identify, analyze, and reconcile inventory ledger variances
•    Track and monitor depot/center inventory locations; provide reports to management
•    Support the finance team with special projects geared to implement best financial practices, enhance internal controls, and optimize inventory/DOS
•    Partner with the broader finance organization to drive process and systematic improvements across the company
•    Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business.

Basic Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree with at least 8-12 years of finance experience (Inventory Management, Program Finance, General Accounting, FP&A,).  A master’s degree may be substituted for years of experience.
•    Must be able to perform functions such as inventory management, financial planning & forecasting, financial analysis, and general accounting. Must be able to extract data from multiple sources and effectively summarize the current financial position of the program.
•    Have a comprehensive knowledge of the project finance field and the ability to complete difficult and complex assignments.  This position requires a problem solver that can pull together knowledge from a broad range of subjects to produce thorough analysis of multifaceted, challenging issues, and use those analyses to find solutions.
•    Must be committed to customer service, be well organized, be able to plan and prioritize assignments, and be able to successfully handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
•    Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, be courteous and professional.
•    Have the ability to work with remote teams and in a fast-paced environment. 
•    Propose and implement project/program improvements.
•    Strong background in the entire Microsoft Office Suite with emphasis on Excel, particularly in the development of formulas, v-lookups, and macros.
•    Demonstrate advanced analytical skills.
•    Positive can-do attitude, excellent communication, and problem-solving skills.
•    Ability to obtain at minimum Public Trust clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Knowledge of Leidos Financial Systems such as Costpoint, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Cognos, Power BI, and ServiceNow.
•    Microsoft Excel (Advanced Level)
 

Original Posting:April 15, 2025

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:Pay Range $89,700.00 - $162,150.00

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.