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MITRE is seeking a Principal, Strategic Finance and Pursuits within the Finance sector to drive and implement strategic execution of priority financial programs and activities, with an emphasis on pursuits, proposals, and other significant contractual activities. This is a leadership position designed to provide analytical, project, and strategic support to both key business activities and priority projects and programs. Success of this position is defined by increased data-driven decision-making, more effective coordination and smoother execution, improved customer experience, and enhanced operational excellence in a cost-conscious environment.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Provide comprehensive internal and external coordination leadership for major initiatives and activities such as major pursuits, contractual renewals, partnerships, strategic investments.
Drive end to end project coordination and management for both ongoing initiatives and complex special projects, maintaining timelines, lists, reports, presentations, and overall project plans. Ensure assigned individuals are executing the identified and assigned tasks and providing appropriate tracking and reporting per plan.
Lead and drive due diligence, business case development, analysis, market research, and financial analysis associated with key projects, programs, opportunities, or transactions.
Engage with and influence financial stakeholders across the government, industry, and academia. Motivate and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes. Build strategic engagement plans for financial partners, conduct relationship management.
Create simple, compelling, data-driven materials that enable clear understanding and motivate action among executive management, including papers, memos, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and e-mails.
Drive the creation of effective business communications and conceptual materials that inform and educate employees about key financial and business topics.
Prepare financial models, conduct research, and prepare briefings and recommendations related to pursuit and proposal opportunities, investments, process and technology transformations, and other major strategic projects.
Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis related to key indicators of success on special projects, contractual and financial performance, growth opportunities, and enterprise risks.
Ensure efforts are completed with: a.) a clear understanding of end-user experience, b.) cross-organization awareness and an understanding of interdependencies, c.) effective and clear decision governance, and d.) budgetary adherence and alignment.
Work with senior leaders to define and confirm initiative governance models; plan, structure, and run effective program and activity reviews.
Develop and conduct financial and compliance educational materials, trainings, workshops, and guides.
Work in a collaborative atmosphere with team members across multiple locations; manage relationships within and outside of Finance including with senior leaders as appropriate.
Assist with ad hoc special assignments for the CFO and Director as needed.
Basic Qualifications:
Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
10+ years professional experience in finance, business operations, contracts, capture strategy, business development, partnerships, corporate strategy, legislative affairs, policy, or proposal development.
Capacity to aggregate, analyze, and report on data, develop dashboards and reports through Tableau, PowerBI, or a similar tool.
Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office, with strong capabilities with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook
This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA preferred
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including creation of plans, reports, and briefing decks. Demonstrated capacity to assemble and present executive-level briefings that synthesize complex data and make actionable recommendations
High level of poise, tact, and diplomacy in working closely, often under time pressure, with highly sensitive information, with a diverse group of executives, customers, managers, and support personnel
Ability to effectively apply strong self-organization and time management skills, with considerable emphasis on self-initiation
Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
Able to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures
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
Salary compensation range and midpoint:
$151,500 - $189,500 - $227,500 Annual
Work Location Type:
Hybrid
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