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Shield AIShield AIDallas, TX

Sr Lead FP&A

Lead financial planning, forecasting, and business partnering for Shield AI's Aircraft Business Unit. Build models linking operational drivers to financial outcomes, deliver insights to engineering/operations leaders, and improve reporting processes in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

130k – 190k/yr
On-site7+ YOEFinance & Accounting

About the role

What you'll do

Support forecasting and planning for the Aircraft Business

  • Lead monthly forecasting, quarterly outlooks, and annual planning for assigned Aircraft Business departments and programs.
  • Build and maintain financial models that connect headcount, labor, material, overhead, and operating initiatives to business performance.
  • Analyze actuals versus plan, identify risks and opportunities, and provide clear recommendations to business leaders.
  • Translate production, engineering, and program assumptions into financial impacts for spend, margins, and resource needs.
  • Prepare reporting packages and presentations for finance leadership and Aircraft Business reviews.

Partner with Aircraft Business leaders

  • Serve as the Finance Business Partner to leaders across engineering, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and program management within the Aircraft Business.
  • Support decision-making on hiring, labor planning, vendor spend, capital investments, and operating tradeoffs.
  • Partner with program and functional leaders to improve forecast accuracy, cost visibility, and accountability.
  • Provide ad hoc analysis on key business questions, including rate, volume, mix, productivity, and cost reduction opportunities.

Improve reporting and planning processes

  • Build repeatable reporting, dashboards, and planning templates that reduce manual work and improve insight quality.
  • Partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, HR, and business systems teams to improve data quality and planning inputs.
  • Support enhancements to planning tools and financial systems, including Anaplan models, reporting workflows, and source-system integration needs.
  • Document business requirements clearly and translate finance needs for technical teams.

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in FP&A, program finance, operations finance, or business finance.
  • Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis skills.
  • Experience partnering with operational or technical teams to support planning and decision-making.
  • Ability to connect operational drivers to financial outcomes in a complex, fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to present insights clearly to cross-functional leaders.
  • Advanced Excel and proficiency with planning or ERP systems; experience with Anaplan is a plus.
  • Comfortable operating with ambiguity and managing multiple priorities at once.

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in aerospace, defense, or other complex manufacturing environments.
  • Familiarity with manufacturing finance, program finance, inventory or cost accounting, and capital planning.
  • Experience supporting engineering, operations, supply chain, or production organizations.
  • Exposure to government contract structures, program reviews, or defense-related reporting rhythms.
  • Strong data fluency, including dashboards, data models, and system-driven planning processes.

Skills

Financial ModelingForecastingVariance AnalysisFP&AanaplanExcelERP Systemsbusiness partneringDashboarding

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