Contract Management Specialist

Contract Management Analyst, Senior Assist with the daily contract operations and provide general IT business & planning support. Prepare reports through gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data and information; prepares presentation materials for management reports. Enter contract financial liabilities into the contract management ATRIUM tool. Assist in the initiation, orchestration and coordinating of contract renewal analysis for IT operations, financial reviews; and analyzing multi-year contract to ensure that costs are planned in the most efficient manner. Maintain annual Operational Expense budgets utilizing proper accounting/budgeting controls, enter financial data into tracking system, and compile regular and ad-hoc financial status reports. Monitor Purchase Orders, review contract invoices, accruals, identify disparities, and resolve issues with the vendors. Analyze actual spend and forecasting to determine if/when appropriate change controls and escalation reporting to leadership. Provides financial analysis on portfolio cost variances for plan vs. actual and can identify inappropriate charges by resources or vendors and makes appropriate corrections in SAP. Leads meetings and acts as a liaison among stakeholders to coordinate, document, and schedule changes to IT contracts. Capture, analyze and present data to managers and directors to aid in business decision making. Effectively plans and control scope of work on contract renewals; integrates all aspects, tracks and ensures that contracts origination targets are on schedule and meets the required standard. Develops communications needed to summarize analysis and to discuss recommendations for peers and executives. This may take the form of dashboards, power point decks, or summarized emails. Facilitates problems solving sessions and workshops with diverse set of business and technology team members. Proactively follows-up on issues and initiatives for senior leaders to ensure successful resolution and implementation. Works closely with leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure that key initiatives and activities are delivered in a timely and coordinated manner that is aligned with the goals of the organization. Works with the data management, financial analysis and modeling team to build new tools and assist with creation and migration of reports to Power BI. Experience with downloading and extracting data from SAP into meaningful business intelligence reports and dashboards. Works with IT and functional leadership to establish a variety of key business, financial and performance metrics. Minimum Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience. Proficient in Microsoft Office, Visio, PowerPoint and expert level Excel skills 5 to 8 years of related work experience