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MITRE · 17 hours ago

Senior Finance Business Partner

Bedford, MA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$100K/yr - $150K/yr

5+ years exp

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to tackling the nation's toughest challenges. They are seeking a Finance Business Partner to serve as a financial advisor, providing day-to-day financial management and business decision support to senior leaders, while fostering collaboration across finance communities.

Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologyNon ProfitQuantum ComputingSaaS

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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 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 relationship with 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 ensure strong 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 prioritize recommendations 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

Qualification

Financial managementBusiness case developmentForecastingDeltek Cost PointTableauCognos AnalyticsCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsPresentation skillsProblem-solvingTeam player

Required

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

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

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

Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet government security requirements

This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site

Preferred

Experience with Deltek Cost Point, Tableau, and or Cognos Analytics preferred

Company

MITRE

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The MITRE Corporation is working to solve some of the nation’s biggest challenges in defense, cybersecurity, healthcare, homeland security, the judiciary and transportation.

Founded in 1958

Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

5001-10000 employees