[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "McLean", "description": "Req ID 18409BR\nJob Title Lead Financial Analyst\nLocation VA: McLean\nProfession Finance\nDepartment Code B083\nPurpose Post-MBA Rotational Position in different CF&A departments or in some cases in different business units and gain a corporate-wide understanding of the company\nSecurity Clearance Level No\nKey Functions - Participate in various strategic activities in finance including long-range strategic/business planning, enterprise cost reduction/re-allocation, finance roadmap, and preparing executive level presentations.\n- Proactively identify, design and implement strategies to resolve performance gaps and operational processes to optimize for value creation\n- Drive discipline and control around capital and operating spending\n- Evaluate and advise on the financial implications of alternative business decisions to inform decision makers\nRequired Education/Experience: Bachelor's, plus 6 years experience or the equivalent in job-relevant work experience\nDesired Education/Experience - Masters degree in the business fields, such as business administration (MBA) or operations management\n- Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in finance, quantitative analysis, or management consulting\nRequired Skills: - Possess quantitative data analysis, problem solving, and analytical modeling skills with the ability to develop/analyze business cases\n- Self-starter and problem solver, able to scope an undefined problem and drive it to completion\n- Strong foundation of corporate finance concepts. Experience working across multiple functions (e.g., operations, IT) and business units\n- Continuous improvement mentality with the capacity to drive change\n- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills\n- Highly developed written and oral communication skills\nDesired Skills - Macro-understanding of business operations and priorities and the ability to articulate them effectively through summary analysis and representative models.\n- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and act in an independent, confident, open-minded, flexible and consultative manner.\n- Ability to synthesize business objectives, processes, and tools to formulate hypotheses and test conclusions to determine appropriate solutions\nTravel Statement *This position will require overnight travel up to xx % of the time.\nClearance Statement *Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, MITRE will consider only applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.", "date_new": "2012-05-21 21:01:36", "url": "http://mitre.jobs/xml/28838468/job", "country": "United States", "company": "The MITRE Corporation", "title": "Lead Financial Analyst", "reqid": "18409BR", "state": "Virginia", "state_short": "VA", "location": "McLean, VA", "uid": 28838468}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Arlington", "description": "Req ID 18363BR\nJob Title Budget Strategy Analyst\nLocation VA: Arlington\nProfession Finance\nDepartment Code G054\nPurpose This position is responsible for the management and allocation of funds appropriated to acquisition programs. This includes assisting sponsors with building and executing fiscal budgets, prioritizing funding allocations to ensure alignment with strategic program and organization goals, forecasting budget requirements, tracking cost and schedule variances on contracts, and responding to both Congressional and various oversight organizations\u2019 requests for information.\nSecurity Clearance Level SCI\nKey Functions \u2022 Performs financial statement preparation and analysis\n\u2022 Conducts process analysis and implementation\n\u2022 Stay abreast of Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cost Accounting Standards, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles\n\u2022 Prepares internal and external financial reporting\n\u2022 Conducts financial budgeting and forecasting modeling\n\u2022 Project management/cost control\n\u2022 Budgeting, pricing and financial modeling\n\u2022 Performs strategic partnering and customer service\n\u2022 Assist Proposal preparation and fact finding\n\u2022 Forecasts and monitors budgets\n\u2022 Consolidates corporate cost data\n\u2022 Develops cost allocations methodology\n\u2022 Forecasts multi-year contract pricing\n\u2022 Analyzes budget variances\n\u2022 Performs risk analyses\n\u2022 Develops initiatives to balance financial performances with operational strategic goals\n\u2022 Evaluates the feasibility of work plans based on present and planned capacity in financial terms, staffing, facilities, and equipment\n\u2022 Identifies and documents critical processes\n\u2022 Disseminates \u201cbest practices: to functional groups and assists in implementation where applicable\n\u2022 Performs liaison function between corporate and business units\nRequired Education/Experience: Bachelor's, plus 6 years experience or the equivalent in job-relevant work experience\nDesired Education/Experience MS in Accounting/Business, 10 years federal accounting.\nRequired Skills: \u2022 Must be familiar with Federal Acquisition Regulations, Cost Accounting Standards, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles\n\u2022 Must have at least 10 years of federal accounting and/or acquisition experience\n\u2022 Must have the ability to prepare and present reports/briefings to sponsors\n\u2022  Must have the ability to research wide range of topics of emerging interest to meeting both technical and functional requirements\n\u2022 Must have strong verbal and written communication and the ability to communicate effectively to a variety of audiences, including government and military seniors\n\u2022 Must have the ability to be an effective team member, provide leadership, team building and good organizational skills\n\u2022 Must demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and ability to deal with ambiguous situations on a consistent basis; perform effectively as a team member; and develop peer relationships\n\u2022 Must demonstrate the ability to contribute to multiple tasks simultaneously and to interface with a wide variety of stakeholders at various levels is required\nDesired Skills \u2022 This candidate should be a proactive self-starter with excellent organization and listening skills who works well in a dynamic work environment with multiple priorities\n\u2022 Candidate must be able to work on-site, with government program managers leading different aspects of development efforts, as well as interact with an integrated team of technical peers in a lab environment. Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills are desired\nTravel Statement *This position will require overnight travel up to 10 % of the time.\nClearance Statement *Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance. For this position, MITRE will consider only applicants with security clearances or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.", "date_new": "2012-05-08 20:06:47", "url": "http://mitre.jobs/xml/28547679/job", "country": "United States", "company": "The MITRE Corporation", "title": "Budget Strategy Analyst", "reqid": "18363BR", "state": "Virginia", "state_short": "VA", "location": "Arlington, VA", "uid": 28547679}]