Laboratory Operations Business Manager

Are you passionate about shaping the future of energy? Join the Idaho National Laboratory as a Laboratory Operations Business Manager and play a pivotal role in driving innovation and efficiency in our Laboratory Operations Business office operations. Based in Idaho Falls, you'll enjoy a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off, allowing for a great work-life balance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to forecast investments, optimize resource allocation, and ensure strategic alignment with our mission. This is your chance to make a significant impact on the world's energy landscape while advancing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.

You will report to the Financial Planning & Analysis Director. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Financial Management: Monitor and analyze financial performance against budgets, identifying and addressing variances. Oversee adherence to financial policies. Drive continuous cost management initiatives to identify efficiencies, optimize spending, and improve overall financial performance.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and manage budgets, providing insights for cost optimization and efficiency improvements. Forecast out-year funding, carryover projections, and FTE projections.
• Portfolio Management: Define and maintain a comprehensive portfolio of laboratory operation services, ensuring strategic alignment and value delivery. Implement best practices to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency in financial processes.
• Reporting and Analysis: Develop and track laboratory financial indices. Prepare Laboratory Operations level financial reports and Leadership Team presentations. Perform impact analysis on Laboratory Operations spending and provide data for Laboratory Operations level and senior management data requests.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build relationships and serve as a liaison between Laboratory Operations and Finance, Contracts, and Procurement. Partner with key contacts outside own area of expertise and other external stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Review Laboratory Operations practices, actions, and proposals, providing suggestions for solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Explore ways to enhance Laboratory Operations investment reporting.
• Team Management: Manage the activities of a small team of financial professionals.
• Operational Oversight: Ensure that budgets, schedules, and performance standards are realistically set and attained. Execute financials, business planning, organizational priorities, and workforce planning.
• Policy Development: Recommend changes to policies and establish procedures that affect the department or multiple disciplines. Participate in the development of overall objectives and long-term goals of the department and possibly the division.
• Communication: Communicate and present results and recommendations across disciplines. Interact frequently with customers, and/or functional peer group professionals, involving matters between multiple departments and groups.

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related degree and 5 years of experience with 2 years of relevant leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience managing, and implementing complex, high-profile programs or a large-complex portfolio of Laboratory Operations business projects.

Job Information: 

• The pay range for this position is: Salary grade 530 ($107,844-$274,980). The target range is ($121,553-$186,889). At Idaho National Laboratory compensation decisions are determined using factors such as education, relevant experience, and other credentials.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel, bend, and work in an office and field/laboratory environment. The job requires hand/finger dexterity to keyboard or type, handle materials, manipulate tools, and reach with hands and arms. The job requires operation of job-related equipment and driving a vehicle. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Sufficient visual acuity and hearing capacity to perform the essential functions and interact with the public is required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.