RTI is seeking a Sr Finance Partner to support corporate function partners with a focus on outcomes and business value associated with critical investments.  Key functions include coordinating annual planning cycles and generating data-based recommendations to inform decision making with executive leadership. This position will provide analytical expertise for strategic projects and other ad-hoc analyses.  This role requires strong influencing skills, critical and strategic thinking, executive presentation skills, and ability to develop strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Leads crucial conversations, identifying key themes and evaluating assumptions/options w critical lens to drive long term strategy
• Proactive financial analysis, leadership and support on critical business initiatives
• Builds dynamic business cases incorporating financial, strategic & cultural perspectives
• Coordinates and consolidates quarterly forecasts, annual budgets and 3-year plans, including in-depth explanations of variances, expectations, risks and opportunity assessment, and mitigation opportunities
• Coordinates monthly management reporting and ensures a high degree of quality, timeliness, and accuracy in reporting, as well as provides key business insights and perspective outlooks
• Develops intuitive, insightful, and engaging presentations that enable efficient, data-driven decision making
• Leads special projects to improve or enhance cost scalability and allocation models

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or relevant field and 8+ years or Master’s degree and 6+ years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Demonstrates curiosity, critical and strategic thinking
• Exceptional ability to build from blank page to solution for complex issues, clearly define the issue and lay out steps to recommend action
• Excellent business partnering skills, specifically at the executive and senior leadership level
• High level negotiation and persuasion skills / influence without authority
• Consistently leads with a recommendation, presents options in clear, concise manner
• Demonstrated leadership within the team, seeks out challenging opportunities, identifies and implements process improvement opportunities with little oversight and opportunities to develop others
• Proven ability to provide advanced financial analyses and package into consumable format for senior level management and non-financial staff (e.g., story-telling / strong use of visuals to articulate messages)
• Expertise with financial models, ability to manage ambiguity in business modeling
• Ability to partner with team members across corporate functions, business units and finance to identify and implement best practices to streamline processes and support the digital transformation strategy
• Understands relationships and leverages data driven insights to inform action
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, while also understanding the big picture
• Possesses strong knowledge of financial systems with the ability to develop ad-hoc reports when required
• Demonstrated ability to contribute strategic insight
• Independently proficient at business navigation, understanding inter-dependencies & knowing when to engage others, able to effectively prioritize workload, self-manage and complete tasks to best meet stakeholder needs
• Strong representative on cross-institute initiatives demonstrating problem solving, collaboration and innovation capabilities
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel and other data analysis/visualization tools (i.e., Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Prior FP&A experience required
• Knowledge of government contracting a plus

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements