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Department Summary:

MITRE is seeking an influential Senior Manager FP&A, Treasury and Investments to lead the finance team responsible for supporting MITRE’s Treasury & Cash Management and Accounts Receivable teams. The Senior Manager is responsible for enabling both teams to create an Operational Excellence culture and process. Operational Excellence at MITRE includes Resource Utilization, Customer Service, and Efficiency. This role requires strong partnering and analytical framing capabilities. As a strategic advisor and business partner, you will support management with the financial impacts of key business decisions and the financial management of the organization’s strategic initiatives. You will also lead and execute the transformation efforts of MITRE’s indirect cost management.

The Senior Manager is also responsible for managing and developing a team of financial professionals in various MITRE locations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Management Responsibilities:

• Providing leadership, mentorship, guidance, and career development to staff

• Recruit and hire high quality candidates in the cash vertical space

• Ensuring timely and quality delivery of services across individual staff members

• Works with staff to specify performance expectations (outcomes, deliverables, metrics)

• Being a collaborative partner within the Finance Leadership Team

• Being a sought after thought leader amongst peers, staff, and stakeholders

• Drive operational improvement and scalability by developing repeating analysis

• Identify and quantify risks and opportunities and enable leadership insights and strategic direction

• Lead cash vertical long-term planning, forecasting, and strategy

Individual Contributor Responsibilities:

• Development and delivery of high-value operational excellence processes and procedures

• Understanding and communication of the financial results and identification of actions required to realize opportunities and mitigate risks

• Development and delivery of executive level briefings

• Delivery of high priority enterprise level initiatives

This role is accountable for a robust and evolving set of stakeholder relationships to ensures efficient management of the organization's finances, minimizes risk, and supports strategic objectives:

Internal Stakeholders

• Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

• Engagement: Reports on cash flow, liquidity, and financial risk management.

• Purpose: Ensure alignment with overall financial strategy and corporate objectives.

• Treasury Team

• Engagement: Collaboration on cash management, funding strategies, and liquidity forecasting.

• Purpose: Effective execution of treasury operations and efficient management of cash positions.

• Sector and Corporate Finance Teams

• Engagement: Coordinating budgeting, financial planning, and forecasting activities.

• Purpose: Provide accurate data for financial reporting and strategic planning.

• Accounting and Compliance

• Engagement: Ensure proper accounting for treasury transactions, such as debt and investments.

• Purpose: Ensure compliance with accounting standards and accurate financial reporting.

• EBSOD & EI&I

• Engagement: Manage treasury management software, payment processing tools, and automation platforms.

• Purpose: Streamline treasury operations and improve efficiency in cash management.

• Corporate Legal Team

• Engagement: Review of legal aspects of financial contracts, debt issuance, and financial policies.

• Purpose: Ensure regulatory compliance and minimize legal risks in financial transactions.

• Risk Management Team

• Engagement: Discuss financial risks, including interest rate, foreign exchange, and commodity price risks.

• Purpose: Identify and mitigate financial risks affecting the organization.

External Stakeholders

Banks and Financial Institutions

• Engagement: Manage relationships for cash management, debt financing, and banking services.

• Purpose: Secure favorable terms for financing, liquidity management, and banking operations.

Rating Agencies

• Engagement: Communication regarding the company’s credit rating, financial health, and risk management practices.

• Purpose: Maintain or improve the company’s credit rating to secure competitive financing rates.

Auditors (Internal and External)

• Engagement: Collaboration on financial audits, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.

• Purpose: Maintain transparency and accuracy in financial statements and regulatory filings.

External Advisors and Consultants

• Engagement: Seek advice on debt issuance, refinancing, and optimal capital structure.

• Purpose: Optimize funding strategies and reduce borrowing costs.

Key Competencies:

• Ability to apply a broad range of analytical techniques to identify business issues, opportunities, and risks

• Ability to develop tools and frameworks to identify problems and propose solutions

• Ability to understand the implications of decisions at a business unit level and the connection to the enterprise overall, including impact to metrics (Rates & Price)

• Ability to lead and collaborate to resolve inconsistencies between the assumptions, beliefs, and processes to increase the likelihood of achieving business objectives

• Knows and understands MITRE’s Code of Ethics and Conduct and consistently models behaviors that are consistent with those values

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field and a minimum of 12 years related experience within finance and/or accounting, ideally within the US Government (Federal) sector. Equivalent education and experience will also be considered.

• Experience managing, leading and developing a team of finance professionals

• Demonstrated experienced in successfully managing executive level relationships

• Ability to partner with budget owners to determine appropriate prioritizations and impact of trade-off decisions on financial metrics

• Proven ability to communicate complex financial information to non-finance professionals

• Working knowledge of CAS & FAR regulations

• Embraces change as a catalyst for growth, proactively adapting behaviors and strategies to navigate and capitalize on evolving circumstances effectively

• Builds consensus and negotiates outcomes to the satisfaction of all parties across the business unit

• Proactive self-starter who executes to commitments

• Continuous improvement mentality with the capacity to drive change

• Proven expertise in leveraging data-driven insights to effectively influence and align stakeholders, driving transformative change through analytical precision and strategic decision-making

• This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA is preferred

• Previous experience managing Corporate FP&A functions

• Experience with Deltek Costpoint, Tableau, and/or Cognos Analytics is a plus

Our culture is a tangible asset that endures through our people and leaders. At MITRE, our leaders must also demonstrate and continually develop a consistent set of shared Leadership Competencies:

• Lead with a Strategic Mindset: Drives alignment across MITRE to achieve our mission by engaging across and beyond the enterprise, making and executing decisions, and activating the Good Growth Strategy.

• Create Value: Takes a broad approach to solving complex problems using a national and global lens. Unleashes the full capabilities of our people in a relentless pursuit of innovative solutions that are scalable, equitable, transferable, and sustainable.

• Cultivate Inclusion: Creates an environment and opportunities, built on trust, where people can be their whole authentic self, feeling welcomed, supported, engaged, and respected for who they are and what they contribute to the organization. Embraces and engages all dimensions of diversity to exponentially expand MITRE’s impact in solving problems for a safer world.

• Communicate for Impact: Conveys powerful messages tailored to the unique needs of stakeholders—and desired outcomes—in a style that engages and inspires action. Exemplifies active listening to foster collaboration, understanding, and alignment.

• Commit to Action and Outcomes: Holds self and others accountable for acting on and achieving established objectives. Exemplifies cultural attributes while executing and delivering impactful outcomes.

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

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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