Job Abstract

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MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Lead Financial Advisor to support the Program Finance Team, which provides financial support to MITRE Department Managers, and Project Leaders. As a Lead Financial Advisor, you will serve as a trusted advisor in support of the MITRE Sector Financial Management organization. As a Lead Financial Advisor, you will serve as the primary source of day-to-day financial management and business decision support to Department Managers, and Project Leaders – playing a key part in the business operations functions that maximize MITRE’s value to our government sponsors. 

This position is accountable to:

• The Program Finance Manager to effectively implement and manage established goals.

• Line business leadership to provide accurate, timely, and strategic business decision support – quality analyses including insights, options, and recommendations.

• Other Corporate/Shared Service teams (i.e. Contracts, Accounting, FP&A) to ensure cross organization collaboration and integrated business operations execution.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous proactive service & support to Project Leaders and Department Managers Full-lifecycle financial, and end-to-end business support of direct work programs (e.g. Budgeting, resource management, execution, collections, and contract closeout)

• Develop and maintain vertical and horizontal relationships within Program Finance to bolster solid support system for PLs and DMs to maintain service levels and adequate support needs.

• Ensure accurate processing and documentation of financial reporting/transactions to ensure established levels of quality and efficiency KPIs.

• Utilize and apply best practices regarding tools, technology, and standard financial processes.

• Drive operational improvements in the day-to-day execution of the Program finance function.

• Execute the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and reporting of internal and external financial information.

• Prepare and deliver necessary supporting analytics to assist leadership in decision making Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to FAR, CAS, and MITRE finance policies. 

• Support leadership on financial performance management and ad-hoc projects.

• Interface with internal sector business customers to identify critical needs and provide accurate and timely information.

• Collaborate with Treasury to maintain timely accounts receivable and sustain positive cashflow.

• Support Business Transformation & Process Reengineering Efforts

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.

• 4+ years of finance and/or accounting experience within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel

• Experience with Data Visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI

• Experience with Deltek Costpoint and/or Cognos Analytics preferred.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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