Leidos

Division Finance & Business Operations Senior Manager

Gaithersburg, MD Full time

The Air Traffic business area at Leidos has an opportunity for a Division Finance & Business Operations Senior Manager. This position is a strategic leadership role responsible for overseeing a diverse portfolio that includes mission critical long-standing, mature contracts as well as key strategic growth initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of one of the main strategic growth areas within Leidos and have the opportunity to help lead and shape the future of air traffic in the United States.  

The Division Finance & Business Operations Senior Manager is responsible for advising line management on all financial aspects of their organizational unit including developing and driving financial forecasts and analyzing the organization’s financial metrics. Duties may include interpreting operating results as they affect the financial aspects of the business, evaluating and approving expenditure decisions, identifying operational risk factors that may impact the business performance of the organization and presenting key business insights and recommendations to achieve the organization’s current and future goals. Other duties include making specific recommendations which will result in cost reduction and both profit and process improvements.

Responsibilities include:

  • Responsible for financial performance of the operating unit to include Annual Operating Plan, monthly forecasts, and FP&A activities.
  • Managing a team of business finance professional staff to ensure contractual compliance, cost management, budget development and proposal support. 
  • Establishment/tracking of indirect rates and expenses (recent consolidation of OH rates and sharing of OH by multiple programs resulting in more competitive bids.). 
  • Manage EVM team and contract deliverables
  • Work closely with business development, capture management, and pricing teams on new business strategy, cost volume reviews, and preparation of cash flow for Executive briefings External and internal customer interface. 
  • Month-end closings and variance/trend analyses
  • Deliverables: Estimate at Completion (EACs), quarterly financial status reviews (QFSR), monthly and quarterly business reviews (IPR, QPR).

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience in finance operation. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • 4+ years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects. 
  • Strong analytical, communication and presentations skills needed as well as being able to operate independently
  • Must have Government contracting experience leading and managing large financial operations or portfolios.
  • US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance if needed.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in EVM processes and deliverables
  • Experience with proposal process and large capture activities
  • Experience with Technical Accounting 
  • Experience in managing balance sheet and cash application metrics.
  • Experience in managing invoice processes.
  • Financial modeling
  • Proven experience in working and communicating business cases, variance analysis, and evaluating cost benefit models
  • Knowledge of Leidos financial systems such as:  Cobra, CostPoint, Cognos, PowerBI

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 5, 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 $112,450.00 - $203,275.00

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.