Company Description
Grow your career. Flex to get more out of life. Care for your wellbeing. You can at Leidos.
**At Leidos we offer**:
- A hybrid working environment so you can find your ideal work-life balance
- Interesting work on real projects that perks our nation
- Diverse teams, diverse thinking, diverse opportunities. We're big believers in the benefits of a diverse workplace and welcome you to join in
- Access to over 100,000 online courses through our Technical Training portal.
**Job Description**:
**Your New Role**
Leidos Australia, is seeking a Program Financial Analyst to support program activities as well as Overhead cost management; including the financial management of contracts within the Aviation industry; annual budgets, monthly forecasts, month end closing including accruals, program performance reporting and project profitability analysis.
You will have the ability to leverage a hybrid working arrangement in this role.
**Specific Functions**:
- Monthly variance analysis and financial reporting across programs and business unit overhead costs
- Compilation and review of budgets using actual performance, previous budget figures
- Coordinate multiple financial cost analysis functions, including cost allocation, setting up cost control systems, collecting data, controlling costs and preparing reports that maintain the Company’s cost accounting system
- Responsible for administration and reporting of overhead budgets, charge codes and cost allocation
- Liaison to the business for indirect cost rates, compliance with Cost Principles
- Business partnering with delivery and operations personnel to provide financial advice to meet organisational goals.
**Qualifications**:
**About You and What You'll Bring**
At least a Bachelors Degree in a related discipline, coupled with demonstrable finance experience (3-5 years) from a project based complex business setting, including budget development, financial control, forecasting, variance analysis and business partnering.
Relevant certification and professional memberships (CPA/CA) is desirable.
**Experience**
In some or all of the following areas:
- Global business experience would be valuable, along with familiarity of systems such as CostPoint or similar and OAC/OBI
- An ability to balance competing priorities and meet tight deadlines is essential along with strong relationship skills, a proactive attitude and an ability to quickly learn new systems and processes
- Robust working knowledge of and skills in MS Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook) is essential
- Financial management, reporting and governance
- Proven experience in understanding and controlling costs across projects and project delivery teams to success
**_ To be successful you must be an Australian Citizen and preferably hold a current baseline security clearance or at a minimum be able to obtain one._**
Additional Information
- Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1._
📌 Program Financial Analyst
🏢 Leidos Airborne Solutions Australia
📍 Adelaide Airport