Lead Financial Analyst

Constellis•Herndon, VA

About The Position

Constellis is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to join its FP&A team. The role builds and owns financial models, driver-based forecasts, and executive-level analyses to help leaders make informed decisions. It also designs and implements AI-enabled workflows, analytical frameworks, and reusable financial tools to improve forecasting, decision support, and reporting across the enterprise. The position calls for rigorous financial acumen, sound business judgment, intellectual curiosity, and an interest in modernizing finance operations. The analyst will build sophisticated models, synthesize complex information, communicate with senior leaders, and use technology to expand finance’s impact. The work involves office-based financial analysis, computer use, and collaboration, with periodic planning and reporting deadlines. Essential functions may be performed with reasonable accommodation.

Requirements

At least 3 years of relevant FP&A or financial analysis experience, with demonstrated independent ownership of financial models, forecasts, or substantive analytical workstreams.
Hands-on examples of personally implemented, multi-step AI workflows, including financial validation, human-review boundaries, and lessons learned.
Experience preparing executive and board materials and the ability to turn analysis into clear, decision-ready presentations.
Initiative, accountability, and effective cross-functional communication, including explaining assumptions, constructively challenging inputs, and delivering accurately under changing priorities.
Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience demonstrating the capabilities required for the role.

Responsibilities

Build, own, and improve reusable, driver-based financial models for revenue, margin, pipeline, funded backlog, and forecast credibility, with transparent logic and documented checks.
Own the rolling forecast and P&L outlook, connect inputs to business drivers, constructively challenge unsupported assumptions, and deliver timely, reconciled forecasts with clear risks and opportunities.
Create decision-ready executive, board, and lender PowerPoint decks with a clear narrative explaining key findings, comparing options, and recommending actions.
Evaluate project economics, profitability, cash flow, and working-capital drivers; distinguish timing effects from structural changes; make trade-offs visible to business partners; and identify actions to improve results.
Build, test, and maintain approved agentic AI workflows for modeling, forecasting, reconciliation, recurring variance analysis, and presentation preparation; validate AI-assisted outputs to the same standard as personal work.
Maintain a shared, documented, version-controlled library of models and workflows with consistent metric definitions, calculation rules, and source-to-report lineage.
Coach finance and business partners to confidently reuse models, reports, and approved workflows.
Execute ad hoc analyses and special projects independently, prioritize competing needs, and communicate risks and progress clearly through completion.