Lead, Finance

Job Title: Lead, Finance 

Job Code: 39842

Job Location: (On Site) Melbourne, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Corporate Headquarters IT Finance organization is seeking a highly motivated self-starter to financial support for a large Service Area in the IT Organization.  The Finance lead will be responsible preparing budgets, analyzing actual expenditures, and maintaining forecasts for the Service Area.  The information prepared will be regularly communicated to budget owners, executive management, FP&A, Compliance, and to other LHX customers.  The position is also expected to perform various ad hoc analyses to be used by leadership for key financial decision making. 

Essential Functions:

• Forecast and analyze IT services spend for large, complex Service Area in support of monthly forecasting and annual planning cycles


• Consolidate forecasts of other analysts to provide timely and accurate monthly reporting including variance and trend analysis for management review


• Provide financial leadership and guidance to Service Area VP and staff


• Interface with all levels of the organization to troubleshoot and resolve issues


• Drive process improvement initiatives - streamline and automate processes for transforming financial data into decision making information


• Provide capital investment analysis for Service Area


• Provide Service Area accounting support including preparing and reviewing account reconciliations and standard journal entries as part of the monthly close


• Support internal and external audit/compliance requirements


• Prepare various ad hoc analyses, reports, and presentations


• Ability to work with and provide financial direction to other functional areas in a dynamic work environment with frequent changing priorities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience PeopleSoft, Ariba, Hyperion, and Power BI


• Strong leadership, teamwork and business partnering skills


• Strong analytical ability


• Advanced forecasting and consolidation skills


• Self-starter with continuous improvement mentality


• Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and prioritize in a fast-paced environment

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