FP&A Director

Leidos hiring for FP&A Director jobs in Remote, VA, US

Description

Leidos' SES Business Area is looking for a data driven, out-of-the-box, critical thinker to join their team as the Director of FP&A. In this role, you will be responsible for the financial forecasting of revenue, EBITDA, cash, and backlog for the Business Area on a recurring basis, including monthly actual analysis, fiscal year projections and yearly AOP and multi-year strategic planning. In addition, you will be responsible for coordinating all capital planning, indirect budget management and consistent financial reporting. This role reports directly to the Business Area CFO.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform analysis and critical thinking to assess Business Area portfolio to recommend an accurate forecast
• Assist in establishing short- and long-range Business Area financial goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Create forward looking financial projections for all accounting statements and accompanying measurements.
• Develop and continually improve budgeting, financial projections, and operating forecasts
• Measure performance against key AOP metrics such as Revenue, Expense, OI, Cash, DWC and DSO.
• Lead the monthly and quarterly close processes, crafting clear variance explanations that explain what happened in the period
• 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’s key metrics
• Responsible for supporting the consolidated planning of all Cash and Balance Sheet accounts
• Indirect budget management activities, including issuing challenges to indirect budget owners to reach Business Area objectives.
• Responsible for the assessment of SES Business Area account balances with 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 Business Area and serves as a key liaison and resource to various stakeholders both internal and external to the SES Business Area
• 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 Sector 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 automation to drive more efficient analysis and management of indirect budgets
• Perform business case and ROI analysis.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of prior financial planning and analysis experience, including 7+ years of team management / project management experience.
• Experienced with Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Expertise in quantitative analysis and presentation.
• Broad experience presenting, interacting and influencing C-level executives
• 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 customers.
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Familiarity with the Insight Financial Reporting tool and Costpoint
• Familiarity with Accounting processes and procedures

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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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.