Prinicpal, Finance Projects and Programs

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Department Summary: MITRE is seeking a Principal, Finance Projects and Programs within the Finance sector to track, drive, and implement strategic execution of priority financial programs and projects. This is a leadership position designed to ensure improved customer experience, effective financial decision support, and enhanced operational excellence in a cost-conscious environment, resulting in measurably improved value, efficiency, and impact.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Drive end to end project coordination and management support 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.
• Ensure major projects including business systems and process changes 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.
• Enable a unified operating and reporting structure for several of the sector’s top priorities, projects, and systems/process changes, including recommendation of/administration of key tools, schedules, and reports.
• Provide consultative support, templates, and start-up guidance to leaders across the organization to enable planning, execution, and reporting structures to be scaled widely.
• Work with senior leaders to define and confirm initiative governance models; plan, structure, and run effective program and activity reviews and meetings.
• Work in a collaborative atmosphere with team members across multiple locations; manage relationships within and outside of Finance including with senior leaders as appropriate.
• Create simple, compelling, data-driven materials that enable clear understanding and motivate action among senior management, including papers, memos, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and e-mails.
• 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 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Professional experience in finance and business operations
• 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 interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including creation of plans, reports, and briefing decks
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Able to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office, with strong capabilities with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook
• Capacity to aggregate, analyze, and report on data, develop dashboards and reports through Tableau, PowerBI, or a similar too.
• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA is preferred

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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