Chief Growth Advisor

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Department Summary:

A leader and advisor in MITRE’s finance organization, this position enables MITRE to pursue, structure, and monitor existing and emerging business models, contract types, and growth opportunities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

This role will evolve over time to meet the needs of the Finance team and MITRE, improving MITRE’s administration of a firm fixed price and time and materials work portfolio, providing consulting and advisory support around business model development, and strengthening opportunity management at MITRE.

• Serve in a senior business partner capacity, generating reports and insights on the pipeline and performance of MITRE’s firm fixed price and T&M portfolios.
• Create and disseminate monthly reports on the financial performance of individual and collective project portfolio.
• Generate insights and recommendations to improve the overall administration of FFP and T&M project work.
• Generate improvements and better line-of-sight into the related project and opportunity pipeline.
  
  

Advise the Director of Strategic Finance, CFO, and other senior Finance leaders around opportunities to evolve and diversify MITRE’s business model:

• Analyze financial and strategic implications of decisions and options, identify opportunities and risks, and recommend solutions.
• Create artifacts, reports, and presentations that enable leadership decision making.
• Provide an “outside in” perspective on the norms, practices, trends, and behaviors of the commercial contractor market to educate and inform MITRE Finance leadership.
• Conduct special research and/or analysis projects on related business topics at the request of the Director of Strategic Finance or CFO.
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 10 years of Finance and/or consulting experience within the US Government (Federal) practice of a professional services firm and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 7 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
• Experience working in finance for a federal contractor
• Experience with and understanding of federally-funded research and development centers
• Experience with pricing, contracting, and reporting across multiple contract types including cost plus fixed fee, time and materials, and firm fixed price models
• Excellent research and analytical skills
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Deltek Costpoint, Tableau, Salesforce, and/or OneStream preferred
• Mindset of continuous improvement with the capacity to drive change
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, and influencing skills
• Flexible team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams and across varying groups and organizational levels
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent deliverables while maintaining high quality output
  
  

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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