Finance Business Partner, Manager (GL)

The MITRE Corporation•Bedford, MA

41d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. Department Summary: MITRE's Finance organization is seeking a Manager to serve as a lead business partner. As the Finance Business Partner, 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 Finance Manager is also a direct manager and developer of people, responsible for positioning the team to positively impact across and within the broader finance communities. Additionally, this Finance Manager will take responsibility for special projects with impact across MITRE Finance.

Requirements

Typically requires 10+ years of finance and/or consulting experience within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm with a Bachelor's degree, 8+ 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.
Experience developing and reviewing business cases for federal and international government business
Knowledge of the federal budgeting and contracting processes and experience developing revenue forecasts from federal budgets
Relevant academic and/or professional qualification (e.g., MBA)
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.
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Nice To Haves

Currently holding a Secret Clearance or Above
Experience with Deltek Cost Point, Tableau, and or Cognos Analytics

Responsibilities

The Finance Manager will serve as the trusted business partner and line level-CFO for a center within MITRE, including being the single point of contact for Finance to that customer.
As such, they will be the "command and control" lead for Finance functions supporting these organizations, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer.
The Finance Manager is expected to develop a reputation as the chief problem solver for their customers, 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 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 fulfill this role, the Finance 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 part of that fiduciary perspective, the Finance Manager must ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.
The Finance Manager should work with customers and other business partners to drive long-term planning, working with the businesses to understand their 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.
Additionally, this business partner will work with other business partners and staff within Sector Finance to conduct quarterly reviews on these business cases in coordination with the Director of Sector Finance and the CFO. These reviews will ensure that new businesses are meeting financial targets and with proposed plans to mitigate financial impacts if a new business is off target.
The Finance 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.
To support this, the Finance 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 regard to opportunity management. These core aspects will be key to the organization's forecast.
In this specific role, the Finance Manager will help to develop a methodology for long-term forecasting and coordinate with other business partners to implement it across MITRE. This methodology will use federal budgeting data to predict topline revenue growth for each customer organization based on funding for specific funding lines, working with the Strategic Finance organization.
Finance 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 Finance 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 Finance 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 Finance Manager should communicate financial results effectively with useful visual narratives, education on financial topics, and concise actions.
Like all MITRE Finance employees, Finance 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.