Finance Business Partner, Manager; GL

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MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Manager to serve as a lead business partner. As the Finance Business Partner, you will serve as the 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 Finance Manager is also a direct manager and developer of people, responsible for positioning the team to positively impact across and within the broader finance communities.

Additionally, this Finance Manager will take responsibility for special projects with impact across MITRE Finance.

• The Finance Manager will serve as the trusted business partner and line‐level CFO for a center within MITRE, including being the single point of contact for Finance to that customer.
  • As such, they will be the command and control lead for Finance functions supporting these organizations, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer.
  • The Finance Manager is expected to develop a reputation as the chief problem solver for their customers, helping them to work through complex issues throughout the Finance organization, or even center‑level operations issues with financial drivers or outcomes. At times, the Finance Manager may need to work with the broader Sector Finance team, Enterprise Business Systems & Operations, or other parts of the finance organization to highlight issues, brainstorm solutions, and drive an implementation that meets the customers’ and the Finance organization’s needs.
  • To fulfill this role, the Finance Manager is expected to build and maintain a positive relationship with customer stakeholders. They should take a fiduciary perspective towards their work with their customer, prioritizing good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE.
  • As part of that fiduciary perspective, the Finance Manager must ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.
• The Finance Manager should work with customers and other business partners to drive long‑term planning, working with the businesses to understand their objectives from a sponsor impact and capability perspective and help the business to align financial resources to support these desired outcomes.
  • For major investments, they should steer business case development, ensuring that these investments are financially sustainable under a variety of scenarios and that there are opportunities to shift decisions if sponsor interest does not materialize.
  • Additionally, this business partner will work with other business partners and staff within Sector Finance to conduct quarterly reviews on these business cases in coordination with the Director of Sector Finance and the CFO. These reviews will ensure that new businesses are meeting financial targets and with proposed plans to mitigate financial impacts if a new business is off target.
• The Finance Manager provides…