Strategic Finance Lead

The MITRE Corporation • New Bedford, MA

10h • 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 is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead within the Finance sector to track, drive, and implement strategic execution of priority financial programs and activities. This is a lead position designed to provide analytical, project, and strategic support to both key business activities and priority projects and programs. Success of this position is defined by increased data-driven decision-making, more effective coordination and smoother execution, improved customer experience, and enhanced operational excellence in a cost-conscious environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years professional experience in a related work environment
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Professional experience in finance and business operations
• Experience with creation of plans, reports, and briefing decks. Demonstrated capacity to assemble and present executive-level briefings that synthesize complex data and make actionable recommendations
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office, with strong capabilities with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook
• Capacity to aggregate, analyze, and report on data, develop dashboards and reports through Tableau, PowerBI, or a similar tool.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Able to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures
• High level of poise, tact, and diplomacy in working closely, often under time pressure, with highly sensitive information, with a diverse group of executives, customers, managers, and support personnel
• Ability to effectively apply strong self-organization and time management skills, with considerable emphasis on self-initiation

Responsibilities

• Create simple, compelling, data-driven materials that enable clear understanding and motivate action among senior management, including papers, memos, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and e-mails.
• Prepare financial models, conduct research, and prepare briefings and recommendations related to pursuit and proposal opportunities, investments, and other strategic finance opportunities and transactions.
• Drive end to end project coordination and management support for both ongoing initiatives and complex special projects, maintaining timelines, lists, reports, presentations, and overall project plans. Ensure assigned individuals are executing the identified and assigned tasks and providing appropriate tracking and reporting per plan.
• Ensure efforts are completed with: a.) a clear understanding of end-user experience, b.) cross-organization awareness and an understanding of interdependencies, c.) effective and clear decision governance, and d.) budgetary adherence and alignment.
• Work with senior leaders to define and confirm initiative governance models; plan, structure, and run effective program and activity reviews and meetings.
• Develop and conduct financial and compliance educational materials, trainings, workshops, and guides.
• Work in a collaborative atmosphere with team members across multiple locations; manage relationships within and outside of Finance including with senior leaders as appropriate.
• Assist with ad hoc special assignments for the CFO and Director as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level