Finance Asst Analyst

Description:The main purpose of this role is budget management of IT spend. It requires analytic skills, excellent communication skills, modeling skills and ability to identify and deliver business insights and productivity ideas. This role works closely with the business teams in the planning process to enable strategic and financial decision-making across IT. Excel skills are a must.This role is responsible for supporting IT Operations team as owner of Global Asset Management budget which includes global software and hardware spend. Provide financial analysis and consolidated reporting for supported team. This role requires analytic skills, excellent communication skills, modeling skills, a deep understanding of IT operations and ability to identify and deliver business insights and productivity ideas. This role works closely with the business teams in the PSP, AOP and Fcst process to enable strategic and financial decision-making across IT Asset Management The total direct budget responsibility is $125MM in expense per year. Direct budgets were previously split between two finance resources.Finally, the role will provide direct support for the FLNA, NAB and sectors' IT Asset Management spend. This includes preparing and providing guidance for the period spend as well as coordinating cross charges to the sectors of $7MM.Deliver Global Asset Management financial plan:- Support Global Asset Management budgets, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and ad-hoc requests - providing consultation and executing actions- Support NA and Sector Asset Management function funded budgets, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and ad-hoc requests - providing consultation and executing actions- Provide financial analysis and consolidated reporting for supported teams. Provide variance and cause of change analysis- Work closely with the business teams to support the PSP, AOP, and forecast process.- Leverage financial systems, SAP & Hyperion/Essbase, to ensure analysis and reporting are completed accurately and on time.- Partner with business teams and finance leadership to provide business insights and productivity ideas- Support leadership team with ad-hoc financial analyses and data requests- Partner with key suppliers to ensure reporting and billing accuracy including validation of monthly supplier charges.- Execute and manage monthly cross charges, journal entries, accruals, and purchase orders- Ad Hoc projects as required- Submit software amortization requests to NASS (there are currently around 80 that are submitted each year)- Provide Cashflow information to PFSS as requested for SW Maintenance amortizations.- Bachelor's Degree, with an Accounting or Finance concentration.- 4+ years of experience and practical exposure in some of the following roles: Financial Planning and Analysis, evaluating business performance- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with all levels of management.- Ability to provide thought-leadership and business partnership to a cross functional team- Results-oriented with ability to initiate and lead projects to completion- Innovative thinker with a focus on continuous process improvement- Ability to function effectively in a team environment and gain the cooperation of individuals across the organization.- Ability to work remotely with customers in different locations- Knowledge of IT operations- Able to communicate complex financial strategies and activities inside and outside of finance- Ability to support multiple managers and organizations in the matrix environment