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The MITRE Corporation Lead Financial Analyst – Group Leader in McLean, Virginia

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, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Lead Financial Advisor 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 Advisor, you will serve as a trusted advisor in support of the MITRE Sector Financial Management organization. As a Lead Financial Advisor, 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. You will also be responsible for managing a team of Financial Analysts.

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 in our Bedford or McLean office.

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 to maintain service levels and adequate support needs.

  • 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:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

  • 4+ years of finance and/or accounting experience within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm

  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel

  • Experience with Data Visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI

  • Experience with Deltek Costpoint and/or Cognos Analytics preferred.

  • Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet government suitability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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 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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