Laboratory Operations Business Manager
About The Position
Are you passionate about shaping the future of energy? Join the Idaho National Laboratory as a Laboratory Operations Business Manager and play a pivotal role in driving innovation and efficiency in our Laboratory Operations Business office operations. Based in Idaho Falls, you'll enjoy a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, allowing for a great work-life balance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to forecast investments, optimize resource allocation, and ensure strategic alignment with our mission. This is your chance to make a significant impact on the world's energy landscape while advancing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment. You will report to the Financial Planning & Analysis Director.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related degree
- 5 years of experience
- 2 years of relevant leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience managing, and implementing complex, high-profile programs or a large-complex portfolio of Laboratory Operations business projects.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze financial performance against budgets, identifying and addressing variances.
- Oversee adherence to financial policies.
- Drive continuous cost management initiatives to identify efficiencies, optimize spending, and improve overall financial performance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and manage budgets, providing insights for cost optimization and efficiency improvements.
- Forecast out-year funding, carryover projections, and FTE projections.
- Define and maintain a comprehensive portfolio of laboratory operation services, ensuring strategic alignment and value delivery.
- Implement best practices to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in financial processes.
- Develop and track laboratory financial indices.
- Prepare Laboratory Operations level financial reports and Leadership Team presentations.
- Perform impact analysis on Laboratory Operations spending and provide data for Laboratory Operations level and senior management data requests.
- Build relationships and serve as a liaison between Laboratory Operations and Finance, Contracts, and Procurement.
- Partner with key contacts outside own area of expertise and other external stakeholders.
- Review Laboratory Operations practices, actions, and proposals, providing suggestions for solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
- Explore ways to enhance Laboratory Operations investment reporting.
- Manage the activities of a small team of financial professionals.
- Ensure that budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set and attained.
- Execute financials, business planning, organizational priorities, and workforce planning.
- Recommend changes to policies and establish procedures that affect the department or multiple disciplines.
- Participate in the development of overall objectives and long-term goals of the department and possibly the division.
- Communicate and present results and recommendations across disciplines.
- Interact frequently with customers, and/or functional peer group professionals, involving matters between multiple departments and groups.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
