Project Financial Analyst, Lead

Leidos has an immediate career opportunity for a Program Finance Analyst, Lead to join our Undersea Systems Division. In this role, you will provide program finance support for multiple programs in the US West Coast, including planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting on projects of various contract type, size, complexity, and level of risk. This role has significant interface with Project Managers, Contracts, Senior Technical Personnel, as well as other organizations. You will work directly with the program manager to help define the program's goals; create and maintain a program's budget, schedule and prepare EAC. Additionally, you will prepare and present financial forecasts, reports and help with new business proposals for the customer.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of all contract cost and financial data
• Ownership of monthly closing process, validating awards/bookings, backlog, revenue & op income for each program you support
• Variance analysis and reporting of actual program financial performance against AOP and quarterly forecast
• Accountable for program billing (in coordination with Leidos Billing Team), cash collection, analysis and clearing of unbilled receivables
• Responsible and accountable for program financial forecast including development and overall management of program EAC
• Program start-up and maintenance – ensure project setup process is executed correctly
• Analyzes contract actuals for accuracy, identifies errors, ensures errors are corrected timely
• Creating and presenting monthly internal and external customer reports
• Responsible for program financial customer deliverables (CDRLs)
• Supporting any ad hoc requests by internal management and external customers

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience in program financial control. Additional relevant program financial control experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Experience in budgeting, financial forecasting, and analysis of all contract cost and financial data.
• Ownership of monthly closing process, validating awards/bookings, backlog, revenue & op income for each program you support
• Must be able to support Pacific Standard Time business hours
• Experience in defense contracting industry with knowledge of multiple contract types: CPAF, CPFF, FFP, T&M
• Strong MS Office skills, in particular MS Excel
• Customer focused and strong communication skills with extremely high level of attention to detail
• Team Player - able to jump in where needed attitude
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Costpoint, Cognos, Oracle Analytics, Fusion, PowerBI and other Leidos financial systems

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Original Posting:

May 14, 2026

Pay Range:

Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00

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.