Principal, Strategic Finance and Pursuits

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive internal and external coordination leadership for major initiatives and activities such as major pursuits, contractual renewals, partnerships, strategic investments.
• Drive end-to-end project coordination and management 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.
• Lead and drive due diligence, business case development, analysis, market research, and financial analysis associated with key projects, programs, opportunities, or transactions.
• Engage with and influence financial stakeholders across the government, industry, and academia.
• Motivate and influence internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared outcomes.
• Create strategic engagement plans for financial partners, conduct relationship management.
• Create simple, compelling, data-driven materials that enable clear understanding and motivate action among executive management, including papers, memos, presentations, dashboards, data visualizations, and emails.
• Drive the creation of effective business communications and conceptual materials that inform and educate employees about key financial and business topics.
• Prepare financial models, conduct research, and prepare briefings and recommendations related to pursuit and proposal opportunities, investments, process and technology transformations, and other major strategic projects.
• Provide quantitative and qualitative analysis related to key indicators of success on special projects, contractual and financial performance, growth opportunities, and enterprise risks.
• Ensure efforts 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.
• Work with senior leaders to define and confirm initiative governance models; plan, structure, and run effective program and activity reviews.
• Develop and conduct financial and compliance educational materials, trainings, workshops, and guides.
• Manage relationships within and outside of Finance including with senior leaders as appropriate.
• 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.
• 10+ years professional experience in finance, business operations, contracts, capture strategy, business development, partnerships, corporate strategy, legislative affairs, policy, or proposal development.
• Capacity to aggregate, analyze, and report on data, develop dashboards and reports through Tableau, PowerBI, or a similar tool.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, including creation of plans, reports, and briefing decks.
• Demonstrated capacity to assemble and present executive-level briefings that synthesize complex data and make actionable recommendations.
• 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.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Able to proactively assess situations and make decisions within broadly defined practices and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Benefits Information

• Annual Work Location Type: Hybrid.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.