Principal, Deltek Costpoint & Business Intelligence

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MITRE is searching for a Principal, Deltek Costpoint & Business Intelligence to continuously improve our use of Costpoint ERP, our integrations with other on-prem and cloud-based Enterprise Business Platforms, and our enterprise finance reporting infrastructure in support of MITRE's digital finance transformation.

The selected candidate should have expertise in or willing to build mastery of all modules of Costpoint, experience with 3rd party integrations, implementations, and migrations from systems to Costpoint. The candidate should be well balanced in accounting and IT or accounting information systems. The accounting background is essential in candidates' ability to tie out reports and validate the information when building reports in Cognos. Costpoint technical experience is essential to the candidate's ability to provide functional and technical input to design, development, deployment, and production operational support of Costpoint extensions and integrations. They should be familiar with back-end tables, the Costpoint development toolset, and the front-end application.

The work will be based out of the McLean office with a hybrid work schedule.

Job Responsibilities:

Design, develop and implement solutions in Costpoint ERP and system integrations that support MITRE's digital finance transformation while balancing impact, resources and time.

• Work closely with key stakeholders to drive finance systems related initiatives for new capabilities
• Elicit business requirements, design, and develop system integrations, extensions and reports to support evolving finance business processes
• Implement operational improvement opportunities leveraging automation (e.g continuous audit, self-service model, decrease time to close, etc) and continue to re-evaluate areas where automation and efficiencies can be introduced in Costpoint
• Keep abreast of emerging technologies and the potential application to the business and finance space. Participate in investigations and prototypes to evaluate these possibilities.
• Ensure integrity, privacy, and security of all financial data through the design and enforcement of procedures and standards
• Maintain awareness of vendor plans and the potential impact of those plans on current and future financial systems functionality
• Share and explain Costpoint functionality and best practices to Finance users and Costpoint data model and data flows to technical team members in order to address organizational needs
• Develop and maintain the document control process for implementing procedures to ensure adequate system documentation
• Support Deltek operations activities such as overall financial operational support and upgrades, cloud administration, application operations for Deltek. Individual will lead post-production support including identifying individuals with proper skill sets or identify needed training
• Foster and maintain positive relationships with Finance Business Systems customers across the enterprise inclusive of Senior Leadership

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in combined education and experience
• At least 8 + years of related job experience
• Familiarity with Costpoint MRs (maintenance releases), and system bugs give examples
• 5+ years experience using Costpoint development tools (including Web Integration, Extensibility and Eclipse Java IDE tools), SQL analytical skills and Java to deliver business solutions
• Experience with Deltek Costpoint (including system configuration, security), Deltek Business Intelligence (development of Cognos reports and analytics)
• Self-starter, comfortable in a fluid working environment with competing priorities
• Strong technical and functional experience with financial management reporting systems, data architectures and business intelligence tools
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and processes across organizational lines
• Ability to effectively communicate technical requirements to a non-technical audience
• Experience working with Deltek Support to solve complex problems in a highly-integrated environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in related field preferred
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum or SAFe environment
• Solid understanding of information security and privacy issues related to financial information
• Understanding of the integration and impact of various financial products
• Knowledge of user interface standards as applied to web collections and applications
• Knowledge of Workday, Concur
• Understanding of the integration and impact of various financial products

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

None

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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