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MITRE · 1 day ago

Prinicpal, Finance Projects and Programs

McLean, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$152K/yr - $228K/yr

8+ years exp

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to tackling the nation's toughest challenges. The Principal, Finance Projects and Programs role involves leading strategic execution of financial programs and projects to enhance customer experience and operational excellence.

Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologyNon ProfitQuantum ComputingSaaS

Responsibilities

Drive end to end project coordination and management support for both ongoing initiatives and complex special projects, maintaining timelines, lists, reports, presentations, and overall project plans. Ensure assigned individuals are executing the identified and assigned tasks and providing appropriate tracking and reporting per plan

Ensure major projects including business systems and process changes are completed with: a.) a clear understanding of end-user experience, b.) cross-organization awareness and an understanding of interdependencies, c.) effective and clear decision governance, and d.) budgetary adherence and alignment

Enable a unified operating and reporting structure for several of the sector’s top priorities, projects, and systems/process changes, including recommendation of/administration of key tools, schedules, and reports

Provide consultative support, templates, and start-up guidance to leaders across the organization to enable planning, execution, and reporting structures to be scaled widely

Work with senior leaders to define and confirm initiative governance models; plan, structure, and run effective program and activity reviews and meetings

Work in a collaborative atmosphere with team members across multiple locations; manage relationships within and outside of Finance including with senior leaders as appropriate

Create simple, compelling, data-driven materials that enable clear understanding and motivate action among senior management, including papers, memos, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and e-mails

Assist with ad hoc special assignments for the CFO and Director as needed

Qualification

Finance experienceData analysisProject managementMicrosoft OfficeDashboard developmentSelf-organizationInterpersonal skillsCommunication skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

Professional experience in finance and business operations

High level of poise, tact, and diplomacy in working closely, often under time pressure, with highly sensitive information, with a diverse group of executives, customers, managers, and support personnel

Ability to effectively apply strong self-organization and time management skills, with considerable emphasis on self-initiation

Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including creation of plans, reports, and briefing decks

Strong organizational skills with attention to detail

Able to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures

Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office, with strong capabilities with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook

Capacity to aggregate, analyze, and report on data, develop dashboards and reports through Tableau, PowerBI, or a similar tool

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred

MBA is 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