8+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years with a Master's; or 3 years with a PhD; or equivalent experience.
Strong problem-solving skills with a creative approach.
Detail-oriented self-starter with a commitment to execution.
Continuous improvement mindset with change-driving capabilities.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for effective influence.
Ability to build consensus and promote new ideas.
Flexible team player adept at cross-functional collaboration.
Capacity to manage multiple projects while ensuring high-quality outcomes.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary financial advisor with a CFO mindset for a specific customer organization.
Lead finance functions, maintaining awareness of program finance, invoicing, and contracts.
Develop a reputation as the chief problem solver for complex financial issues.
Drive long-term planning and align financial resources with business objectives.
Steer business case development for major investments, ensuring financial sustainability.
Provide frameworks for forecasting and target setting based on demand signals.
Deliver regular management reporting and analysis, focusing on business drivers and variances.
Benefits
Opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and influence business decisions.
Engagement in business transformation and process reengineering efforts.
Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams.
Potential for professional growth and development in finance.
On-site work fosters strong team dynamics and relationships.
Full Job Description
Department Summary:
MITRE's Finance organization is seeking a Business Partner (BP) to serve as a financial advisor supporting senior leaders of the business. They will be the primary source of day-to-day financial management and business decision support, playing a key part in the business operations functions that maximize MITRE's value to our government sponsors. The Finance BP is also responsible for driving collaboration across and within the broader finance communities to support MITRE's business.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Finance Business Partner will serve as the trusted business partner with a CFO mindset for a specific customer organization, including being the single "face" for Finance to that customer.
As such, they will be the lead for Finance functions supporting the organization, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer.
They will have demonstrated the ability to solution issues from start to finish, collaborating across functional teams.
The Finance BP is expected to develop a reputation as the chief problem solver for their customers, helping them to work through complex issues throughout the Finance organization, or even center-level operations issues with financial drivers or outcomes. At times, the Finance BP may need to work with the broader Sector Finance team, Enterprise Business Systems & Operations, or other parts of the finance organization to highlight issues, brainstorm solutions, and drive an implementation that meets the customers' and the Finance organization's needs.
To fulfil this role, they are expected to build and maintain a positive relationshipwith customer stakeholders. They should take a fiduciary perspective towards their work with their customers, prioritizing good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE as a whole.
As part of that fiduciary perspective, the Finance BP must ensurestrong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.
The Finance Business Partner should work with the customer to drive long-term planning, working with the business to understand its objectives from a sponsor impact and capability perspective and help the business to align financial resources to support the desired outcomes.
For major investments, they should steer business case development, ensuring that these investments are financially sustainable under a variety of scenarios and that there are opportunities to shift decisions if sponsor interest does not materialize.
The Finance Business Partner provides a framework and data to steer forecasting and target setting, ensuring that the customer has a realistic and accurate forecast based on demand signals that minimizes potential risk while maximizing the customer's ability to deploy indirect resources.
In order to support this, the Finance BP should develop a strong understanding of opportunities and risks, using this knowledge to drive future forecasts, take action to insulate against risks between forecasts, and escalate potential concerns to Finance leadership.
They should also ensure that the customer is actively engaged in understanding the current landscape of their awarded work while effectively driving the necessary processes and policy to ensure completeness, consistency, and hygiene with regard to opportunity management. These core aspects will be key to the organization's forecast.
Finance BPs work with customers to develop annual indirect budgets based on the organization's strategic priorities, while ensuring alignment with the enterprise wrap rate strategy.
The Finance BP provides regular and recurring management reporting and analysis, that include but are not limited to key monthly artifacts such as monthly business reviews.
In doing so, the Finance BP should aim to analyze and diagnose business drivers and variances to budget using various financial systems.
Financial management reporting should focus on lessons learned and prioritizerecommendations for leadership actions.
They should communicate financial results effectively with useful visual narratives, education on financial topics, and concise actions.
Like all MITRE Finance employees, Finance BPs support business transformation and process reengineering efforts, leveraging their on-the-ground experience and relationships with stakeholders to drive requirements that meet business needs.
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Passion, energy, and enthusiasm in learning and applying through creative problem-solving.
Strong attention to detail; resourceful self-starter who executes commitments.
Mindset of continuous improvement with the capacity to drive change.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and influencing skills.
Consensus builder; Promote ideas and gain buy-in on new approaches.
Flexible team player with ability to work in cross-functional teams and across varying groups and organizational levels.
Ability to handle multiple concurrent work streams while maintaining high-quality output.
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Deltek Cost Point, Tableau, and or Cognos Analytics preferred.
Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government's eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): None
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $128,000 - $160,000 - $192,000 Annual
Work Location Type: Onsite
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