Financial Analyst

Responsibilities:Financial Planning & AnalysisPartner with IT department in budgeting\forecasting modelling and analyzing departments’ performance. Identify and provide guidance on potential opportunities, challenges, and risks, escalating when appropriate.Support monthly close of IT departments: Monitor spend by project/initiative for accuracy and completeness (including variance analysis) and update forecasts in alignment with IT management.Manage invoice treatment, including accruals, prepaids, and accounting of capital vs. operating expense.Collaborate with stakeholders on preparation of recurring internal reporting packages, dashboards, trend analysis, and other ad hoc analysis.Perform and coordinate multi-year project-based financial analysis and modeling of IT costs to support reporting of the operating and capital spend.Finance OperationsAssist IT management in understanding financial and other business data, including Cloud, Network, Desktop, Services, and SaaS/Licensing. Develop models and analyses to drive better decision-making and business performance, identify trends, opportunities, and risks.Assist in preparing business cases for capital and operating expenditure requests.In partnership with Procurement and IT and operations, review invoices, contracts, etc., to ensure accurate budgeting/forecasting and to optimize cost.FINOPS Management and Reporting (Azure, Oracle, etc.):Prepare regular and ad-hoc financial reports, including variance analyses, month-over-month comparisons, and dashboards.Communicate expense trends and insights to key stakeholders.Collaborate on the development of annual cloud expense budgets, considering business growth, technology advancements, and cost optimization goals.Monitor and analyze cloud expenses to ensure alignment with budgetary guidelines.Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or EconomicsMinimum of 2 years of relevant business experience in corporate financial budgeting and reporting.Not intimidated by large, unfamiliar datasets and confident in understanding and editing complicated Excel models.Experience in ERP systems, such as Oracle, Hyperion Planning, OneStream, and other EPM solutions.Comfortable with accounting and finance fundamentals (e.g., policies & procedures, journal entries, accruals/prepaids/reclasses, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting).Basic understanding of the procure to pay process (Quote, SOW, MSA, PO, Invoice, etc.).Demonstrates strong communication skills, both written and verbal; ability to interact and influence at various organizational levels.Exceptional attention to detail, analytical, and problem-solving/trouble-shooting skills.Ability to deliver results with a sense of urgency, accuracy, ownership/accountability, and integrity; successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.Preferred Qualifications:Knowledge of cloud consumption services, cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google) and their pricing models.Previous experience with managing IT department spend, including IT operational function knowledge.Balanced financial and technical acumen: ability to speak the language of Finance, Business and Technology.Knowledge of IT and/or IOT hardware/software assets which include software licenses and maintenance costs.Knowledge of IT and/or IOT cost structure used to provide in depth analysis around project costs (hardware, software, contract labor, absorbed labor and core budget costs).Experience with IT and/or IOT quick business/financial models/business cases cost estimation and forecasting.