# Sr Lead FP&A

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** Dallas, TX
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $130k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, FP&A, anaplan, Excel, ERP Systems, business partnering, Dashboarding
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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