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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. 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 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 Full-lifecycle financial, and end-to-end business support of direct work programs (e.g. Budgeting, resource management, execution, collections, and contract closeout)

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 to maintain service levels and adequate support needs.

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

Financial Analysis:

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):

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

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