Senior Finance Business Partner

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Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation’s toughest challenges, and we’re committed to the long‑term well‑being of our employees. MITRE is a not‑for‑profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest with no commercial conflicts influencing our work. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation.

We’re making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and partnership with people.

MITRE’s Finance organization is seeking a Business Partner (BP) to serve as a financial advisor supporting senior leaders of the business. They will be the primary source of day‑to‑day financial management and business decision support, playing a key part in the business operations that maximize MITRE’s value to our government sponsors. The Finance BP is also responsible for driving collaboration across and within the broader finance communities to support MITRE’s business.

• The Finance Business Partner will serve as the trusted business partner with a CFO mindset for a specific customer organization, including being the single “face” for Finance to that customer.
  • Lead finance functions supporting the organization, keeping broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer.
  • Demonstrate capability to solve issues from start to finish, collaborating across functional teams.
  • Develop a reputation as the chief problem solver for the customer, helping them work through complex issues throughout the Finance organization or broader operations with financial drivers or outcomes. May need to work with the Sector Finance team, Enterprise Business Systems & Operations, or other parts of the finance organization to highlight issues, brainstorm solutions, and drive implementation that meets the customer’s and Finance organization’s needs.
  • Build and maintain a positive relationship with customer stakeholders, taking a fiduciary perspective toward their work with the customer, prioritizing good financial outcomes for the customer and MITRE as a whole.
  • Ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.
• Work with the customer to drive long‑term planning, aligning financial resources to support desired business outcomes.
  • For major investments, steer business case development, ensuring financial sustainability under various scenarios and opportunities to shift decisions if sponsor interest does not materialize.
• Provide a framework and data to steer forecasting and target setting, ensuring the customer has a realistic and accurate forecast based on demand signals that minimize potential risk while maximizing the customer’s ability to deploy indirect resources.
  • Develop strong understanding of opportunities and risks, using knowledge to drive future forecasts, insulate against risks between forecasts, and raise concerns to Finance leadership.
  • Ensure the customer is actively engaged in understanding the current landscape of awarded work while driving processes and policy to ensure completeness, consistency, and hygiene in opportunity management.
  • Work with customers to develop annual indirect budgets based on strategic priorities, aligning with the enterprise wrap‑rate strategy.
• Provide regular and recurring management reporting and analysis, including key monthly artifacts such as monthly business reviews.
  • Analyze and diagnose business drivers and variances to budget using financial systems.
  • Focus on lessons learned…