# Lead Financial Analyst, Aircraft Business Unit

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Shield AI is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst to support the Aircraft Business Unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and decision support.

### Responsibilities

- Support forecasting and planning for the Aircraft Business, including monthly forecasting, quarterly outlooks, and annual planning

- Build and maintain financial models that connect operational drivers to business performance

- Analyze actuals versus plan, identify risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations to business leaders

- Translate operational 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

- 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

### Improve Reporting and Planning Processes

- Build repeatable reporting, dashboards, and planning templates to 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

- Document business requirements clearly and translate finance needs for technical teams

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- forecasting
- variance analysis
- communication skills
- Advanced Excel
- planning or ERP systems
- Anaplan

### Nice to have
- aerospace
- defense
- complex manufacturing environments
- manufacturing finance
- program finance
- inventory or cost accounting
- capital planning
- government contract structures
- program reviews
- defense-related reporting rhythms
- data fluency
- dashboards
- data models
- system-driven planning processes

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