Lead FP&A Operations Analyst

Job Description SummaryWhether you want to work at one of our facilities as the site leader's right hand helping to make business decisions or at headquarters on a larger finance team, we have an opportunity for you. You’ll get to work with budgets of various sizes and complexities, while collaborating with others. Our finance and accounting teams span the globe, providing unmatched learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
Responsible for providing financial planning, analysis and reporting for Defense & Systems Engineering. In-depth understanding of key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work. In-depth understanding of how work of own team integrates with other teams and contributes to the area.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the various financial business cycles: Long-range forecast, annual budget, forecasts, and estimates. Analyze the performance and propose action plans to improve profitability and cash generation as well as corrective action plans as needed.
• Strong partnership with Engineering Operations on working through the systems and data analysis.
• Partner with FP&A leadership and D&S Engineering Finance to design and execute rolling forecast
• Partner with FP&A leadership to implement FLIGHT DECK/Lean (process improvement, standardization, daily management, etc)
• Support template design and preparation for key annual, quarterly, monthly, weekly FP&A activities
• Special projects that are assigned by D&S Engineering Leadership to support finance/operations processes
• A job at this level is likely to be an individual contributor, with proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business about design and coordination services rendered. Provides informal guidance to new team members. Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of a discipline. Uses prior experience and acquired expertise to execute functional policy/strategy.
• Impacts projects, processes, and procedures in own field. The role operates with some autonomy but is focused on execution of activities/provision of advice within an enabling discipline covered by standard functional practices and procedures. Activities require professional judgment but may require more senior levels of guidance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college and a minimum of four years of experience in Finance

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Ability to influence others and lead small teams
• Lead initiatives of moderate scope and impact
• Ability to coordinate several projects simultaneously
• Effective problem identification and solution skills
• Proven analytical and organizational ability
• Excellent command on MS Office Applications, particularly Excel
• Proactively engages with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and design solutions using analysis skills and best practices
• Demonstrated ability to recognize process improvement opportunities
• Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value
• Knowledge of or experience with government contracting

Note:

To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience required for any role based within the USA. For roles outside of the USA, to ensure compliance with applicable legislation, the JDs should focus on the substantive level of experience required for the role and a minimum number of years should NOT be used.

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, for applicants who are not asylees, refugees, lawful permanent residents or U.S. Citizens (i.e., not a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), otherwise known as a U.S. Person), final offers will be contingent on the ability to obtain authorization for access to U.S. export-controlled information from the U.S. Government.

Additional Information

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position