Associate Program Finance Analyst

at  THE MITRE CORPORATION

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MITRE’s Program Finance organization is seeking an Associate Project Financial Analyst to support the MITRE Sector Program Finance Team. This team provides financial support to Direct Project Leaders and Department Managers. In this role, you will assist in monitoring the financial health of direct projects and support Department Managers and Project Leaders with key business decisions. As an Associate Project Financial Analyst, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the effective financial management of projects and contribute to maximizing MITRE’s value to our government sponsors.
This will be a hybrid position based out of either our McLean, Virginia or Bedford, Massachusetts office.

This position is accountable to:

• The Program Finance Manager to effectively implement and manage established goals.
• Line business leadership to provide accurate, timely, and strategic business decision support - quality analyses including insights, options, and recommendations.
• Other Corporate/Shared Service teams (i.e. Contracts, Accounting, FP&A) to ensure cross organization collaboration and integrated business operations execution.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree and 1 years of finance and/or accounting experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel (i.e. Pivot tables & Core functions)
• Strong attention to detail resourceful self-starter who executes on commitments.
• Mindset of continuous improvement with the capacity to drive change.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and influencing skills.
• This position requires of 50% hybrid on site.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Academic excellence with financial or quantitative interest/competence
• Experience with Data Visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI
• Applicants selected for this position may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet government suitability requirements.
• US Citizen

This position is accountable to:

• The Program Finance Manager to effectively implement and manage established goals.
• Line business leadership to provide accurate, timely, and strategic business decision support - quality analyses including insights, options, and recommendations.
• Other Corporate/Shared Service teams (i.e. Contracts, Accounting, FP&A) to ensure cross organization collaboration and integrated business operations execution