Project Finance Analyst, Lead

Leidos' National Solutions Business Area within the Intelligence Sector has an immediate opening for a Project Financial Analyst, Lead.

In this role you will 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.

We are seeking a forward-thinking candidate who combines strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in process automation and a demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence (AI). This role will play a key part in modernizing financial operations, improving reporting efficiency, and identifying areas to leverage automation and AI-driven insights across the portfolio.

The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, comfortable working with data and systems, and motivated to continuously improve financial processes using emerging technologies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identify, design, and implement process automation solutions within finance workflows such as reporting, reconciliations, and forecasting.
• Develop dashboards, models, and reporting tools to enhance data visibility and decision making.
• Estimate at Complete (EAC) development, budgeting, forecasting, managing subcontractor hours, costs, and funding needs, as well as analysis of all contract cost and financial data.
• Strong organization, analytical, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Being a business partner to program PMs providing well rounded financial analysis to help drive program decisions and understand potential impacts
• Serves as liaisons between the Program Team and cross-functional departments to perform financial research
• Manage monthly invoicing process, to include all aspects of AR (aged AR, reconciliation of unbilled balances, rate adjustments, cash collections, etc.)
• Support monthly closing of financial key measurements (Revenue, Operating Income, Operating Cash Flow, etc…) and provide variance analysis.
• Support ad hoc requests by internal management and external customers
• Ability to work independently, or in a team environment and with various organizational levels

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 4+ years of comprehensive Program Finance experience.
• Hands-on experience in process automation and a demonstrated interest in artificial intelligence (AI).
• Prior government contracting experience is required and familiar with multiple contract types.
• Must have good communication skills written and verbal.
• Must have strong Microsoft excel experience.
• Excellent analytical skills, able to identify financial drivers and perform high level and detailed analysis.
• Able to work successfully in a team environment.
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Leidos financial systems such as: CostPoint, Cognos, Fusion, Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) and Insight. 
• Demonstrated experience automating financial processes using tools such as advanced Excel, Power Query, Power BI, Python, RPA Platforms, or ERP workflow tools.
• Business Case Experience

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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.