Lead FP&A Operations Analyst

About the position

Whether 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.

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.
• Provides informal guidance to new team members.
• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.
• Uses prior experience and acquired expertise to execute functional policy/strategy.
• Impacts projects, processes, and procedures in own field.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college.
• A minimum of four years of experience in Finance.

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Great work environment.
• Professional development.
• Challenging careers.
• Competitive compensation.