Job Abstract

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Senior Manager to serve as the lead business partner for the Joint and Service organization. As the Senior Finance Manager for Joint and Service, you will serve as 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 Senior Manager of Joint and Service Finance, is also a direct manager and developer of people, responsible for positioning the team to positively impact across and within the broader finance communities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• The Senior Financial Manager will serve as the trusted business partner and mini-CFO for a specific customer organization, including being the single “face” for Finance to that customer.

  • As such, they will be the “command and control” lead for Finance functions supporting the organization, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer. 

  • The Senior Financial Manager 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 Senior Financial Manager 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, the Senior Financial Manager is 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 Senior Financial Manager must ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.

• The Senior Financial Manager 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 Senior Financial Manager 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 Senior Financial Manager 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.

  • Senior Financial Managers 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 Senior Financial Manager 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 Senior Financial Manager 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.

  • The Senior Financial Manager should communicate financial results effectively with useful visual narratives, education on financial topics, and concise actions. 

• Like all MITRE Finance employees, Senior Financial Managers 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 12+ years of finance and/or accounting experience within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm with a Bachelor’s degree, 10+ years with a MBA or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• 4+ years’ experience leading and managing teams.

• Relevant academic and/or professional qualification (CPA and/or MBA 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.

• 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 suitability requirements.

• US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently holding a Secret Clearance or Above

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

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

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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