Senior Finance Business Partner, MPS

The MITRE Corporation•New Bedford, MA

1d•$100,000 - $150,000•Onsite

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 Business Partner (BP) to serve as a financial advisor supporting senior leaders of the business. They will be 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 BP is also responsible for driving collaboration across and within the broader finance communities to support MITRE’s business.

Requirements

Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
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 position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.
Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for security clearances.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Serve as the trusted business partner with a CFO mindset for a specific customer organization, including being the single “face” for Finance to that customer.
Be the lead for Finance functions supporting the organization, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer.
Demonstrated the ability to solution issues from start to finish, collaborating across functional teams.
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.
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.
Build and maintain a positive relationship with customer stakeholders.
Take a fiduciary perspective towards their work with their customer, prioritizing good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE as a whole.
Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.
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.
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.
Provide 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.
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.
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.
Work with customers to develop annual indirect budgets based on the organization’s strategic priorities, while ensuring alignment with the enterprise wrap rate strategy.
Provide regular and recurring management reporting and analysis, that include but are not limited to key monthly artifacts such as monthly business reviews.
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.
Communicate financial results effectively with useful visual narratives, education on financial topics, and concise actions.
Support business transformation and process reengineering efforts, leveraging their on-the-ground experience and relationships with stakeholders to drive requirements that meet business needs.