Senior Financial Analyst

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE’s Finance organization seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to join the MITRE Technology & Engineering (MTE) Finance team. You’ll provide day-to-day financial management, forecasting, and business decision support to maximize value for government sponsors.

Responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, monthly reporting, and building financial models; the role requires on-site work four days per week and strong Excel, accounting, and finance literacy.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Ability to simplify complex analysis and concepts through strong narrative development and effective data visualizations.
• Intermediate-level Excel skills.
• Basic Accounting literacy.
• Basic-Intermediate Government Cost Accounting literacy.
• Intermediate Finance literacy.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Responsibilities

• Fiduciary perspective to prioritize good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE as a whole.
• Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies.
• Regular engagements with Division Directors and other stakeholders to discuss forecasts and performance.
• Lead ad hoc or strategic analyses and develop financial models for forecasting and target-setting.

Skills

Data visualization

Excel

Finance literacy

Problem solving

Accountability

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree or PhD

Tools

Deltek Costpoint

Tableau

Cognos Analytics

Job description

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the MITRE Technology & Engineering (MTE) Finance team. As a Senior Financial Analyst (FA), you will serve as a primary source of day-to-day financial management and business decision support, playing a key part in the business operations functions that maximize MITRE’s value to our government sponsors. The FA will work in close coordination with and report directly to the Finance Manager who serves as the line level-CFO for MTE’s Vice President.

Roles & Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement

• Fiduciary perspective to prioritize good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE as a whole
  • If necessary, educate or even push against the customer to drive better financial outcomes, while maintaining a positive relationship with key stakeholders
  • Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies
• Ensure customer is actively engaged in understanding the current landscape and business context, including trends and emerging issues within the work program.
• Primary customer is MTE Division Directors. Regular engagements with each director are expected at least monthly; engagement with other stakeholders outside of Finance, such as Department Managers, Operations, Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, Legal, etc., as needed.
• Actively engage in Finance Mission Teams, Managing Center Reviews, and/or cross-Finance reviews, representing the MTE perspective to other stakeholders and bringing back other perspectives to MTE stakeholders.

Business Cycle Support

• Continuous Forecasting & Quarterly Target-setting
  • Indirect rate management: work with customers to realign funding if business context changes or if indirect spending is out of alignment with plan, creating risk to MITRE’s bill rates and/or wrap rate
  • Indirect budget allocations based on enterprise and local-level strategic priorities, working in close coordination with operations teams
  • Help customers understand the demand signal and context that is being received from the business organizations, and ensure they have realistic and accurate forecasts, particularly regarding hiring and capacity planning
  • Oversee the creation of financial models to enable forecasting & target-setting planning, discussions, and preservation for future reference
• Monthly business cycle
  • Create and deliver a monthly management report that analyzes and diagnoses business drivers and variances, focusing on recommendations for leadership action.
  • Lead Director customer through the “OODA loop” each month: observing business metrics and demand outlook, orienting based on the current capacity picture, deciding what actions to take by aligning demand, capacity, and indirects, and finally, recommended actions, informed by active plan data
  • Proactively engage across Finance, escalating challenges and opportunities that may have broader financial impacts.
  • While the primary support area is demand-capacity alignment focused on FFRDC Sponsor Delivery, this role will support other finance needs of their Directors as needed (e.g., business case development, monthly reporting and forecasting for non-FFRDC P&Ls).

Strategic Business & Finance Support

• Lead and/or execute ad hoc or strategic analyses, as requested by stakeholders
• Finance tool, process, and operational improvements
• Represent MTE perspective to the teams that own Finance’s tools and systems, working with them to make updates or changes, as necessary
• Support other operational improvements and business transformation as relevant

Basic Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Ability to simplify complex analysis and concepts through strong narrative development and effective data visualizations.
• Intermediate-level Excel skills.
• Basic Accounting literacy.
• Basic-Intermediate Government Cost Accounting literacy.
• Intermediate Finance literacy.
• Problem identification and solutioning.
• Personal accountability & responsibility.
• This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Deltek Costpoint, Tableau, Cognos Analytics.

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)

• Not Applicable

Salary compensation range and midpoint

• $96,000 - $120,000 - $144,000 Annual

Work Location Type

• Onsite

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

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