Lead Financial Analyst, Group Leader (HYBRID)

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MITRE's Finance organization is seeking a Lead Financial Analyst, Group Leader to support the MITRE National Security Program Finance Team, which provides financial support to MITRE National Security and its Department Managers, and Project Leaders. As a Lead Financial Analyst, you will serve as a trusted analyst in support of the MITRE Sector Financial Management organization. In this role, you will serve as the primary source of day-to-day financial management and business decision support to Department Managers, and Project Leaders - playing a key part in the business operations functions that maximize MITRE's value to our government sponsors. In addition, this role will serve as a Group Leader and be responsible for day-to-day management and career development of a staff of five.

This position is accountable to:

• The Program Finance Manager of MITRE National Security Program Finance to effectively implement and manage established goals
• Line business leadership to provide accurate, timely, and strategic business decision support - quality analyses including, insights, options, and recommendations
• Other Corporate/Shared Service teams (i.e. Contracts, Accounting, FP&A) to ensure cross organization collaboration and integrated business operations execution

This role will be located in our Bedford or McLean office and will be a hybrid work schedule.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide continuous proactive service & support to Project Leaders and Department Managers Full-lifecycle financial, and end-to-end business support of direct work programs (e.g. Budgeting, resource management, execution, collections, and contract closeout)
• Develop and maintain vertical and horizontal relationships within Program Finance to bolster solid support system for PLs and DMs in to order to maintain service levels and adequate support needs
• Provide leadership, mentorship, guidance, and career development to staff ensuring timely and quality delivery of services across individual staff members
• Ensure accurate processing and documentation of financial reporting/transactions to ensure established levels of quality and efficiency KPIs
• Utilize and apply best practices regarding tools, technology, and standard financial processes
• Drive operational improvements in the day-to-day execution of the Program finance function
• Execute the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and reporting of internal and external financial information
• Prepare and deliver necessary supporting analytics to assist leadership in decision making Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to FAR, CAS, and MITRE finance policies
• Support leadership on financial performance management and ad-hoc projects
• Interface with internal sector business customers to identify critical needs and provide accurate and timely information
• Collaborate with Treasury to maintain timely accounts receivable and sustain positive cashflow
• Support Business Transformation & Process Reengineering Efforts

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of finance and/or accounting experience, preferably within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, i.e., Pivot tables & Core functions
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and influencing skills
• Experience with Data Visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI
• Passion for mentoring and coaching teams.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet government suitability requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Deltek Costpoint and/or Cognos Analytics preferred
• Experience with FAR and CAS preferred
• Experience managing, mentoring and developing teams 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
• 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

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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