Principal Financial Analyst (onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-07-25

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ807: RMS AP Bldg 807 1151 East Hermans Road Building 807, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. 

The Raytheon Digital Technology Finance team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced analyst with a strong work ethic, proven collaborative abilities and continuous learning mindset to join our growing team as a Principal Specialist, FP&A (P3). This is a role on a small, agile team, which will provide a great variety of growth opportunities and have significant interaction with various layers of management within and outside of Finance. This position is currently designated as onsite and based out of our Tucson, AZ location.

What You Will Do:

• Serve as the financial analyst for the Digital Technologies organization.

• Analyze expense drivers within the respective directorates being supported and produce actionable next steps to drive costs efficiencies and/or process improvements.

• Obtain a breadth of knowledge of all RTX financial metrics with an emphasis on overhead expenses, PRISM and APEX, and gain a full understanding of all the intricacies of Overhead Budget development and maintenance (to include detailed analysis, trends, what-if’s, etc.).

• Provide process and analytical leadership for Long Range Plan (LRP) and Quarterly forecast updates.

• Analyze monthly overhead performance and forecasts and communicate to the Digital Technology directorates as well as to Finance peers and leadership

• Deliver robust software reporting that links to workflow approvals and allows leadership to make informed decisions on forecast timing and risk and opportunities to plan.

• Perform quick-turn ad hoc financial analysis

• Become knowledgeable in both internal and external controls, such as Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and RTX Disclosure Statement

• Develop financial models and reporting tools related to management of overhead budgets (labor, hardware, contractor labor, software and other critical areas of the business)

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s and 5 years prior relevant financial experience, or an Advanced Degree and 3 years’ experience. Preferred degrees in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance or related field.

• Experience with Excel (preferred experience with large data sets and data manipulation techniques)

• Experience using other Microsoft Office tools (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

• Experience with project or task financial management and support including analyzing budgets, monitoring actual cost data, developing forecasts, and providing variance analysis

• Experience using SAP

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Strong communication, comfortable speaking in groups while confidently and professionally sharing opinions with every level of management.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, geographically dispersed team environment with multiple tasks going on simultaneously, with overlapping responsibilities and firm due dates

• Able to meet critical deadlines and develop and apply process improvements, the selected candidate should be extremely organized and be able to track multiple revisions

• Experience performing qualitative or comparative analysis with an emphasis on variance explanation; the ideal candidate will be Inquisitive and have strong analytical and mathematical skills

• A drive for leading process change, willing and able to partner with cross business teams to improve forecast accuracy

Additional Information:

• This position is grade P3, Principal Specialist, FP&A

• Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

What We Offer:

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

• Whether yo