Argonne National Laboratory seeks applications from talented and highly motivated individuals to join a team of finance professionals focused on providing financial planning and analysis, budgeting, and funding support for the laboratory. This position reports to the Director of Budget Office and Deployed Financial Services.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing leadership, guidance, and direction to a team of analysts for a wide range of financial support in the central Budget Office. This includes the development and analysis of financial metrics and measurements, rate and cost variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, trend analysis, labor change monitoring, resource management, investment analysis, strategic planning, and leading the annual budgeting process.

In this role you will adhere to standard accounting structures in accordance with established policies and procedures, and guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing laboratory internal controls, policies, and procedures, while providing the financial analysis tools to evaluate special projects, programs, capital expenditures, and products/program costing.

You will also:

• Identify issues and process improvements and recommends necessary changes to accomplish the financial goals..
• Analyze financial information and then prepare oral and written reports and presentations on financial and operational trends and provide to leadership so that informed decisions can be made on the financial outlook.
• Be responsible for building relationships with key stakeholders, directorate senior financial managers, government relations, and the Financial Management and Procurement Services (FMPS) management team as a member of Argonne’s financial management community.
• Communicate a clear understanding of financial principles and practices,
• Proactively seek opportunities for improving business operations,
• Present executivemanagement with meaningful business information,
• Ensure compliance with corporate financial policy through internal controls and assessments,
• Provide clear direction to direct reports and staff to enable customer-focused services, business efficiencies, and high-quality business products, and
• Actively manage financial staff by leading the recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, development and mentoring of the team.

Position Requirements

• Knowledge of budget development; financial, variance, and trend analysis; and performance management to support objectives and plans
• Knowledge of effective financial management policies and procedures, including working in a complex financial model environment with compliance requirements
• Experience managing and developing a team of financial analysts
• Experienced in the development of indirect/overhead rate structures and managing the annual budget process to completion
• Skilled in analytical thinking and strategic problem solving to comprehend complex problems and develop innovative solutions
• Responsible for oversite on the preparation of monthly financial reviews and other reporting activities and ad-hoc requests as required
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset and understand/document financial processes
• Ability to coordinate and communicate complex issues with multiple levels of leadership
• Organization skills to balance work and prioritize multiple responsibilities
• Experience with integrated financial management or ERP systems
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or analytical field with 10+ years of experience
• MBA preferred
• Knowledge of the Workday Financials ideal but not required

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