Mgr, Finance & Budget 2

About the role

The Business Services Directorate (BSD) at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) provides crucial financial, procurement, and project management services to ensure efficient, effective, and compliant business operations. BSD fosters a dynamic environment where professionals can develop their skills, take on leadership roles, and contribute to high-impact projects.

Responsibilities

• Finance & Accounting: Performs a variety of financial and/or accounting activities, including the maintenance, control, analysis, and development of complex financial/accounting records, reports, and systems.
• Business Advice and Services: Provides or assists in business advice and services to management and staff to ensure compliance with applicable federal laws, regulations, policies, and sound business practices.
• Policies and Procedures Communication: Adheres to and communicates business policies and procedures, including training and interpretation for the various organizations supported.
• Funding and Agreements Management: Leads the team responsible for implementing policies, procedures, and systems to bring in PNNL's direct-funded research (FY24 $1.6B).
• Annual DOE Budget Call: Leads the response to the annual DOE Budget Call for the Laboratory, including team and division planning, risk management, compliance, and internal controls.
• Acquisition and Sales Contract Expertise: Develops acquisition strategies, leads subcontractor proposal evaluations, interprets government legal and corporate requirements, and administers contracts.
• Sales Responsibilities: Develops and leads bid-no-bid decisions, manages client relationships, prepares proposals, negotiates contracts, and monitors contract compliance.
• Training and Development: Plans, develops, and participates in training of contractual requirements, briefs company management on proposal and subcontracting activities, and provides career development coaching and mentoring.
• Strategic Advice: Provides expert and strategic advice to the PNNL CFO and FCS Director, with broad subject matter expertise in funding and agreements, and DOE Orders, Policies, Directives, and other direction from federal oversight.
• Work Authorization Lifecycle System (WALS): Ensures quality, delivery, and services available within the guidelines, viability, acceptable risk level, regulatory compliance, federal regulations, procedures of PNNL, the sponsor, and DOE.
• Relationship Management: Partners with other members of the Funding Contracts Leadership Team to deploy processes and systems to deliver efficient, effective, and compliant business services to enable research.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualification: BS/BA and 8 years of relevant experience OR MS/MA or higher and 6 years of relevant experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience working in PNNL’s Work Authorization Lifecycle System (WALS), Microsoft Office and other related business systems, experience with Oracle including Financial Management, Grants Management, and Contracts Management, proven ability leading major projects and coordinating activities of other staff, knowledge of Cost Accounting Standards, Federal Acquisition Regulations, and Office of Management and Budget Circulars (A-11 and A-123), and experience in industry or DOE national laboratories engaging DOE federal oversight on financial and contractual compliance matters.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Telehealth Care Options
• Mental Health Benefits
• Free Wellness Coaching
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Basic Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance*
• Employee Assistance Program
• Business Travel Insurance
• Tuition Assistance
• Relocation
• Backup Childcare
• Legal Benefits
• Supplemental Parental Bonding Leave
• Surrogacy and Adoption Assistance
• Fertility Support

Pay

Competitive compensation package with generous benefits.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, standard workweek.