5+ years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years with a Master's; or a PhD with applicable experience.
Experience in cross-functional team collaboration across various organizational levels.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring high-quality results.
Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government Security Clearance; U.S. Citizenship required.
Minimum of 4 days a week on-site presence required.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary financial advisor with a CFO mindset for a specific customer organization.
Act as the main point of contact for Finance functions, addressing program finance, invoicing, and contracts.
Develop a reputation as the chief problem solver, collaborating across teams to resolve 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, minimizing risks while maximizing resource deployment.
Deliver regular management reporting and analysis, focusing on business drivers and actionable recommendations.
Benefits
Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
Retirement savings plans with company matching.
Professional development and training opportunities.
Flexible work arrangements and paid time off.
Employee assistance programs and wellness resources.
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 primary POC 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 customer, 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 customer, 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 these 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 regards 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 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Experience working on cross-functional teams and across varying groups and organizational levels
Ability to handle multiple concurrent work streams while maintaining high-quality output
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 position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Deltek Cost Point, Tableau, and or Cognos Analytics preferred
Passion, energy, and enthusiasm in learning and applying through creative problem-solving
Strong attention to detail; resourceful self-starter who executes on 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
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): Secret
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $100,000 - $125,000 - $150,000 Annual
