Financial Operations & Accountability, Practice Area Lead (MAS PP&IM)

Overview

The Program Planning & Investment Management (PP&IM) Sub Service Line (SSL) is seeking a Practice Area Lead for the Financial Operations & Accountability (FO&A) Practice Area (PA).The PAL will be responsible for 1) developing a strategy for their Practice Area that aligns with SSL strategy and capability maturation; 2) driving innovation and automating solutions; 3) leading business development and growth for their PA, and 3) talent management and development within their PA. 

 

The FO&A Practice Area is focused on capabilities which includes: developing finance, accounting, and audit remediation systems and strategies. The PAL will lead practice area activities, which includes overseeing firm-wide strategy for administration services, leveraging technology to drive innovation, and the developing, retaining, mentoring and coaching of a team of operations domain experts. 

Responsibilities

The FO&A Practice Area Lead role includes the following activities:

• Capability Maturation & Strategy
  • Develop PA strategy and support the SSL strategy to assist in executing SSL goals
  • Create, update, and/or document solutions, offerings, methodologies, and capabilities that align to the PA and resonate with market trends and/or client challenges (e.g. SDMs, methodologies, models, etc.)
  • Coordinate across LMI to ensure PA capabilities are known throughout LMI and meeting the needs of LMI’s customers
  • Continuously improve existing capabilities and develop new capabilities within PA to stay in front of a rapidly evolving and digitally-enabled marketplace
• BD and Growth
  • Provide solutioning, capture, and proposal support to markets/growth for PA capabilities
  • Develop sales enablement materials to support SSL and PA growth
  • Screen RFIs/RFPs for potential action and lead/coordinate response for SSL
  • Review, maintain, and coordinate with markets/BD to update pipeline opportunities related to the Practice Area or coordinate updates with the Business Development POC
  • Support SSL and markets/growth in partner identification for opportunities
• Community Mentorship and Development
  • Manage and develop talent within the PA
  • Manage the hiring process for talent demands within the PA (create, review, and approve requisitions)
  • Conduct interviews for demand requirements and coordinate with SSL Director on hiring/staffing decisions
  • Assist Resource Managers and SSL Director with staff redeployments and internal mobility
  • Mature the PA bench by identifying and mentoring subject matter experts and emerging talent and maintaining awareness of desired growth areas of staff within PA
  • Help identify the best approaches to improve the professional skills of Practice Area members to include certifications, degrees, professional organizations, and work experience
  • Provide input and support to Practice Area staff on Performance 365 goals and calibrations

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in management consulting or government services, executing capabilities in Practice Area (military or civilian) 
• Bachelors degree required
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise and thought leadership
• Ability to lead, nurture, and develop people in an effective way with positive impacts to both the employee and LMI
• Ability to understand and align competing work priorities and outcomes with partners (e.g., service line and market), adjust individual priorities for the greater good, and negotiate shared work goals.

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to develop, nurture and maintain collaborative partnerships. Collaborative partnerships have multiple hand-offs, require regular communication to coordinate and debrief, continual information exchange, collective contribution to work products, creative conflict, and mutual stake in success.
• Ability to clearly articulate other’s roles and responsibilities in completing work and proactively and effectively resolve role conflicts, to include partners, team members and leaders.
• Ability to achieve consensus and decisions while maintaining collaborative partnerships.
• Ability to leverage indirect influence to delegate and co-create and implement work products.
• Ability to tailor communication requirements and style to a wide-range of situations and requirements.
• Ability to make meetings matter by setting clear and specific outcomes, facilitating productive dialogue, and leading an effective follow-up and accountability cadence
• Exemplify LMI’s 5 behaviors

• Collaborate constantly by working across organizational boun