Idaho National Laboratory

Laboratory Operations Business Manager

Idaho National Laboratory • $121K — $186K *
Idaho Falls, ID 83401In-Person
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5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business-related field
  • 5 years of professional experience in financial management
  • 2 years of leadership experience in a relevant role
  • Experience managing high-profile programs or complex portfolios
  • Strong understanding of financial policies and practices.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and analyze financial performance against budgets
  • Collaborate with teams for budget management and cost insights
  • Define portfolio of laboratory services for strategic alignment
  • Develop financial indices and prepare key financial reports
  • Build relationships between Laboratory Operations and Finance teams
  • Review practices to suggest improvements in effectiveness
  • Manage a small team of finance professionals.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth and professional development
  • Dynamic and inclusive workplace culture
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams
  • Contribution to innovative laboratory operations
  • Access to comprehensive health and wellness programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

You will report to the Financial Planning & Analysis Director.

Responsibilities Include:
  • Financial Management: Monitor and analyze financial performance against budgets, identifying and addressing variances. Oversee adherence to financial policies. Drive continuous cost management initiatives to identify efficiencies, optimize spending, and improve overall financial performance.
  • Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and manage budgets, providing insights for cost optimization and efficiency improvements. Forecast out-year funding, carryover projections, and FTE projections.
  • Portfolio Management: Define and maintain a comprehensive portfolio of laboratory operation services, ensuring strategic alignment and value delivery. Implement best practices to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in financial processes.
  • Reporting and Analysis: Develop and track laboratory financial indices. Prepare Laboratory Operations level financial reports and Leadership Team presentations. Perform impact analysis on Laboratory Operations spending and provide data for Laboratory Operations level and senior management data requests.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships and serve as a liaison between Laboratory Operations and Finance, Contracts, and Procurement. Partner with key contacts outside own area of expertise and other external stakeholders.
  • Process Improvement: Review Laboratory Operations practices, actions, and proposals, providing suggestions for solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Explore ways to enhance Laboratory Operations investment reporting.
  • Team Management: Manage the activities of a small team of financial professionals.
  • Operational Oversight: Ensure that budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set and attained. Execute financials, business planning, organizational priorities, and workforce planning.
  • Policy Development: Recommend changes to policies and establish procedures that affect the department or multiple disciplines. Participate in the development of overall objectives and long-term goals of the department and possibly the division.
  • Communication: Communicate and present results and recommendations across disciplines. Interact frequently with customers, and/or functional peer group professionals, involving matters between multiple departments and groups.


Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related degree and 5 years of experience with 2 years of relevant leadership experience
  • Demonstrated experience managing, and implementing complex, high-profile programs or a large-complex portfolio of Laboratory Operations business projects.

Job Information:
  • The pay range for this position is: Salary grade 530 ($107,844-$274,980). The target range is ($121,553-$186,889). At Idaho National Laboratory compensation decisions are determined using factors such as education, relevant experience, and other credentials.


Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel, bend, and work in an office and field/laboratory environment. The job requires hand/finger dexterity to keyboard or type, handle materials, manipulate tools, and reach with hands and arms. The job requires operation of job-related equipment and driving a vehicle. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Sufficient visual acuity and hearing capacity to perform the essential functions and interact with the public is required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

About Idaho National Laboratory

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission in nuclear energy research, science, and national defense. INL is operated by Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC, a partnership between Battelle, BWX Technologies, Inc., and Texas A&M University System. INL's work is focused on delivering solutions to some of the nation's most pressing challenges in energy, national security, science, and the environment. INL's research and development capabilities are organized into four primary areas: Nuclear Science and Technology, National and Homeland Security, Energy and Environment, and Biological Science and Engineering.
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4,000 employees
Industry
Information Technology
* Ladders Estimates

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