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MITRE’s Program Finance organization is seeking a Senior Project Financial Analyst to support the MITRE Sector Program Finance Team, which provides financial support to Direct Project Leaders and Department Managers. As a Senior Project Financial Analyst, you will serve as a trusted advisor in support of the MITRE Sector Financial Management organization. You will serve as the primary financial source of the direct project life-cycle monitoring financial health and providing sound 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.
This will be a hybrid position based out of either our McLean, Virginia or Bedford, Massachusetts office.
This position is accountable to:
- The Program Finance Manager 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.
What you will do:
- Contract Management:
- Product financial contractual deliverable requirements (CDRL) reports for the government. Ensure completion within established deadlines.
- Understand the key steps to produce deliverables and reports and recommend areas that could benefit from process improvement.
- Review Contract Modifications and ensure accurate entry in Contract Lifecycle Management tool.
- Review invoice backup reports and pull all necessary receipts as needed.
- Project Management & Compliance:
- Full-lifecycle financial, and end-to-end business support of direct work programs. Providing continuous proactive service & support to Project Leaders and Department Managers.
- Support pricing and estimating activities as needed for new projects, or potential change orders.
- Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to FAR, CAS, and MITRE finance policies.
- Ensure accurate processing and documentation of financial reporting/transactions to ensure established levels of quality and efficiency KPIs.
- Work with Project Leader & Contracts to ensure all Contractual Financial requirements are met.
- Relationship Management & Stakeholder Engagement:
- Develop and maintain vertical and horizontal relationships within Program Finance & Business Leadership (including PMOs) to bolster solid support system for PLs and DMs.
- Coordinate across functional areas to ensure monthly contractual deliverables are met timely and accurately.
- Coordinate with the Accounts Receivable/Treasury group to maintain timely accounts receivable and sustain positive cashflow.
- Increase Financial Literacy among Project Leaders including Key Concepts, Processes & Tools.
- Collect PL feedback on tools/reporting requirements & share insights with Enterprise Business Systems teams.
- Best Practice (Process & Tools):
- 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.
- Support Business Transformation & Process Reengineering Efforts including requirements analysis, testing of tools, & assigning in OCM efforts.
- Provide continuous proactive service & support to Project Leaders and Department Managers.
- Prepare and deliver necessary supporting analytics to assist leadership in decision making.
- 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.
- Execute the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and reporting of internal and external financial information.
- Develop reporting of aggregate data to focus on exception-based project metrics & historical trends.
- Evaluate impact of updated Indirect Rates on Project Financial Performance.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of finance and/or accounting experience, or a Master’s with 3 years of related experience, preferably within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel (i.e. Pivot tables & Core functions).
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent work streams while maintaining high quality output.
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exceptional knowledge of different contract types (CPFF, Fixed Price, T&M).
- Experience with Deltek Costpoint, and or Cognos Analytics preferred.
- Understanding of indirect rates and cost allocations.
- Ability to work with large data sets to produce reliable, accurate reports.
- Experience with Data Visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI.
Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet government suitability requirements.
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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