Financial Planning & Analysis - Lead Analyst, Corporate Expense

Description

The Leidos Corporate Finance Group is actively seeking a FP&A Analyst Lead to join our Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This exciting role offers the opportunity to hone your financial storytelling skills starting from detailed analysis and planning to presenting to Senior Leadership. You'll consider yourself a Finance Business Partner to Corporate Functions, ensuring that functional spending is aligned with company strategy.

Responsibilities will include planning, forecasting, reporting, and overall budget maintenance. In addition, you can expect to perform ad hoc modeling and other requests that drive operational and strategic efficiencies within the business.

This is a hybrid role that requires 3-4 days of onsite support from Reston - VA. Selected candidate is expected to live within commuting distance from Reston - VA.

• Support, enhance and maintain financial reporting
• Collaborate with Senior Leadership to formulate accurate expense forecast
• Update and maintain quarterly forecast in financial system
• Deliver monthly expense variance analysis
• Provide analytical support and actionable financial insights
• Be a Finance Business Partner to the function

• Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years of applicable FP&A experience or Master's degree with 2+ years of applicable FP&A experience
• Prior experience should include financial forecasting, and variance analysis
• Strong skills in Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps), Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Microsoft SharePoint, and ability to learn new applications.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, using advanced formulas to generate efficiency
• Demonstrated analytical ability
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Creative thinking and problem-solving ability
• Excellent communication skills
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed

• Experience with financial reporting
• Experience with IR&D Tracking and accounting
• User of Leidos Financial and Business Development systems including Costpoint, Insight, OAC, and WinIT
• Knowledge of database management systems and data warehousing concepts
• Data/configuration management experience
• Working knowledge of government accounting regulations (CAS, FAR, GAAP)

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:
December 18, 2025

For U.S. Positions:
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.

Pay Range:
Pay Range $73,450.00 - $

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.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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