Lead Finance Business Partner, MNS

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Department Summary:

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 functions 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.

Roles & Responsibilities :

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.

As such, they will be the lead for Finance functions supporting the organization, keeping a broad awareness of issues with program finance, invoicing, operations, and contracts affecting the customer. They will have demonstrated the ability to solution issues from start to finish, collaborating across functional teams.

The Finance BP 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 BP 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 fulfil this role, they are expected to build and maintain a positive relationship with customer stakeholders. They should take a fiduciary perspective towards their work with their customers, prioritizing good financial outcomes for the customer and for MITRE as a whole.

As part of that fiduciary perspective, the Finance BP must ensure strong operating financial controls and adherence to MITRE Finance policies within the customer organization.

The Finance Business Partner should work with the customer to drive long-term planning, working with the business to understand its objectives from a sponsor impact and capability perspective and help the business to align financial resources to support the 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.

The Finance Business Partner provides a framework and data to steer forecasting and target setting, ensuring that the customer has a realistic and accurate forecast based on demand signals that minimizes potential risk while maximizing the customer’s ability to deploy indirect  order to support this, the Finance BP should…