Leidos Looking for Program Finance Analyst, Associate at Gaithersburg, MD, United States Full Time

Job Description

Description

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Leidos has a job opening for a Finance Analyst in Washington D.C Metro area to include the MD and VA areas.
Are you interested in joining an established entry-level professional program with the #1 Company on the Washington Technology Top 100 Contractors listing? Leidos, a Fortune 500 federal contractor with over $13B in annual revenue, is looking for top finance and business majors to be a part of our organization. As a member of the Leidos Finance and Business Operations Organization you will have a position with varying responsibility and scope that will challenge you and propel your professional and personal growth.
Responsibilities include:

• Program Financial Control (External Customer Focus)
  • Key member of Program Management Team (Finance Business Partner)
  • Provide external customer with highest level of customer service (walk through invoice, explain deliverables, solve issues, etc)
  • Funding management (contract, subcontracts and other net open commitments if applicable)
  • Program start-up and maintenance – ensure project setup process is executed correctly
  • Develops, tracks and updates program baseline including tracking actual costs against baseline (Program Performance Management)
  • Includes development and overall management of program EAC
  • Analyzes contract actuals for accuracy, identifies errors, ensures errors are corrected timely in the source system (preferred) or through cost transfer (journal entry)
  • Communicate issues to Program Management to prevent future errors
  • Responsible for program financial customer deliverables (CDRLs)
  • Initiate (prior to being at-risk), track and manage program SPAs when necessary and work with PM team to obtain contract/funding to close SPAs
  • Support financial presentation for program or operational reviews
  • Proposal support to pricing for proposals above TCPD threshold
  • Pricing of on-contract proposals below the current TCPD threshold
• Program Financial Control (Internal Corporate Focus)
  • Ongoing contract closeout activities during active contract performance
  • Develop Financial EAC and required artifacts to support EAC position and present during quarterly EAC review meetings
  • Financial Forecasting of Awards, Revenue, Op Income, etc:
  • Develop programs annual operating plan
  • Responsible and accountable for program financial forecast (monthly continuous and quarterly current forecast) **Closest to the Pin**
  • Financial Risk & Opportunity management against financial forecast
  • Variance analysis and reporting of actual program financial performance against AOP and rolling 6 quarter forecast
  • Accountable for program billing (in coordination with Leidos Billing Team), cash collection, analysis and clearing of unbilled receivables
  • Ownership of monthly closing process, validating awards/bookings, backlog, revenue & op income for each program you support
  • Support internal and external audits

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and less than 2 years of experience

• Interested in Finance & Business Operations with the industry leader in government services

• Energetic and enthusiastic behavior
• Team player who isn’t afraid to show initiative and solve problems
• Effective interpersonal skills and drive for excellent customer service

• Cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher (please note this on your resume when submitting your application)
• Demonstrated experience performing Accounting, Finance, or Economics-related financial data analysis tasks
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with an ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Ability to quickly comprehend processes and learn systems and tools
• Ability to execute data mining and analysis and present those findings to management
• Ability to be accountable and professional while maintaining effective interpersonal (written, verbal and presentation) skills while managing multiple priorities and tasks
• US Citizenship is required

Pay Range:

Pay Range $38,350.00 – $59,000.00 – $79,650.00