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Job ID: 2615450

Location: Herndon, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-08-10

Category: Business Management

Subcategory: Finance

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI_wPoly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: TS/SCI with Poly

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

SAIC is looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Strategic Financial Reporting Planner to join our team in Herndon, VA, supporting a critical customer mission in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This position plays a vital role in ensuring the success of the customer’s objectives by providing financial expertise as well as business program and project management, financial reporting and analysis, and business process improvement. 

The customer manages complex acquisitions and operations that depend on resources from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Ensuring seamless program execution requires an in-depth understanding of both current and planned acquisitions and operations, including their priorities, schedules, and resource requirements.  This role will require extensive interaction with diverse stakeholders to gain that understanding. Using this knowledge, you’ll develop department plans aligned with budget timelines, supporting efficient resource allocation, funding documentation, tracking, execution, and reporting.

Important Note: 

• This position is for a contingent offer and is dependent upon contract award.  SAIC is currently pursuing this opportunity, and employment is contingent upon the successful award of the contract to SAIC and your ability to meet the required qualifications. 
• The selected candidate must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• The selected candidate must be available to begin work within 30 days of the contract award.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain pricing structures with the intent to break-even over time. Pricing covers operational costs, investment collections, and recapitalization of old infrastructure.
• Track and assess performance and activity levels of the customer’s business entity.  Recommend methods to optimize performance and improve corporate strategies by leveraging organizational knowledge, reviewing business-related data, using comprehensive data analysis skills, and researching and recommending new analytic practices.
• Track, assess, and report resource capacity leveraging that data to ensure right sizing of contractor workforce.
• Run pricing scenarios to evaluate potential financial impacts and outcomes.
• Assist in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of capturing cost and/or pricing data, and cost recovery activities across organizations by analyzing:
  • Service descriptions
  • Cost and pricing models
  • Billing policies
  • Cost recovery processes
• Compile and analyze cost data charged across the budget element and provide status of life-cycle cost estimates.
• Conduct historical analysis of the customer’s pricing and performance data, comparing it to any proposed current organizational and pricing modifications.
• Support the customer’s annual pricing assessment exercise, to include:
  • Assemble financial information from the customer group, leadership, and stakeholders
  • Assess financial data based on the Activity-Based Costing (ABC) model
  • Facilitate pricing assessment meetings with Leadership
  • Report on financial analysis through cost-benefit analysis; provide recommendations.
• Coordinate with the sponsor's Finance team to assess and strategically allocate budget resources for the business entity, for example:
  • Use business modeling analysis to assess fiscal standings and forecasting
  • Perform cost-benefit analysis to address long-term strategic decisions
  • Provide life-cycle cost estimation to support fiscal evaluations

As directed by the customer, prepare and report on organizational performance metrics, analytic findings and trends. Reports shall be presented using dashboards, presentation applications and/or data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, or Microsoft PowerBl) that display operational status, efficiency levels, and trend lines.

Qualifications

•    Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
•    TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; master’s and eight (8) years or more experience; PHD or JD and Five (5) years or more experience.
•    Travel may be required to attend technical meetings or reviews, to attend training, or to otherwise support the requirements of the SOW.  This includes both travel inside the WMA and outside the WMA to include Continental United States.
•    Experience supporting the IC with tasks of similar scope.
•    Proven experience in establishing and maintaining pricing structures that cover operational costs, investment recovery, and infrastructure recapitalization.
•    Strong expertise in cost recovery processes, including lifecycle cost estimation, cost and pricing models, billing policies, and Activity-Based Costing (ABC).
•    Advanced data analysis skills to compile, assess, and evaluate financial data, resource capacity, and historical pricing trends to inform decision-making.
•    Experience conducting pricing scenarios, cost-benefit analyses, and business modeling to forecast budgets and optimize financial performance.
•    Proven ability to track, monitor, and report on performance metrics, operational trends, and resource capacity to ensure right-sizing of contractor workforce and business alignment.
•    Expertise in preparing and presenting financial and performance reports using tools like Tableau, Power BI, and advanced functions in Microsoft Excel (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUP).
•    Strong leadership and stakeholder collaboration skills, with experience facilitating Pricing Assessment meetings, gathering financial information, and making strategic recommendations.
•    Demonstrated ability to identify and address challenges in cost recovery and resource allocation while recommending optimized performance strategies based on data insights.
•    Experience in strategy development, leveraging financial insights to optimize budget utilization, forecast future needs, and align with long-term organizational objectives.
•    Effective relationship-building and communication skills to engage leadership, finance teams, and mission partners, aligning business and financial strategies across units.