About the company:
Avenue Code is the leading software consultancy focused on delivering end-to-end development solutions for digital transformation across every vertical. We’re privately held, profitable, and have been on a solid growth trajectory since day one. We care deeply about our clients, our partners, and our people. We prefer the word ‘partner’ over ‘vendor’, and our investment in professional relationships is a reflection of that philosophy. We pride ourselves on our technical acumen, our collaborative problem-solving ability, and the warm professionalism of our teams.
Avenue Code has been believing in and promoting plurality actions for over 10 years, understanding that recognizing differences and fostering a safe environment, employment opportunities, representation, and support are the best ways to promote an increasingly equitable culture.
About the opportunity:
We are looking for a Senior IT Financial Planning Analyst to manage a portfolio of technology contracts in collaboration with IT leadership. This role is crucial for overseeing the contract lifecycle, providing financial insights, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have expertise in budgeting, forecasting, and analysis, requiring a strong background in financial analysis, IT planning, and project management.
*This role requires flexibility to work in a hybrid model in the Bay Area (Oakland).
Responsibilities:
- Assist with the daily contract operations and provide general IT business & planning support.
- Prepare reports through gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data and information; prepare presentation materials for management reports.
- Originates contracts in the PG&E procurement system, ARIBA, and enters contract financial liabilities into the contract management ATRIUM tool.
- Assist in the initiation, conducting, and coordinating of contract renewal analysis for IT operations, financial reviews; and analyzing multi-year contracts 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 the tracking system, and compile regular and ad-hoc financial status reports.
- Monitor Purchase Orders, review contract invoices, and accruals, identify disparities, and resolve issues with the vendors.
- Analyzes actual spending 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 make 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 making business decisions.
- Effectively plans and controls scope of work on contract renewals; integrates all aspects, tracks and ensures that contract origination targets are on schedule and meets the required standard.
- Develops communications needed to summarize analysis and discuss recommendations for IT management. This may take the form of dashboards, PowerPoint decks, or summarized emails.
- Facilitates problem-solving sessions and workshops with a 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 team to build new tools and assist with the 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 various key business, financial, and performance metrics.
Required Qualifications:
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, and expert-level Excel skills;
- Experience with contract agreements;
- Experience with financial modeling and data management;
- Project and program management skills;
- Experience with presenting to leadership and developing PowerPoint slides
- Experience with Power BI a plus
Nice to Have:
Avenue Code discloses salary range information based on our commitment to fairness and transparency. We consider a wide range of factors such as internal equity, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, business or organizational needs, and others. At Avenue Code, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for a Senior IT Financial Planning Analyst is from 80k to 150k per year.
Avenue Code reinforces its commitment to privacy and to all the principles guaranteed by the most accurate global data protection laws, such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA and CPRA. The Candidate data shared with Avenue Code will be kept confidential and will not be transmitted to disinterested third parties, nor will it be used for purposes other than the application for open positions. As a Consultancy company, Avenue Code may share your information with its clients and other Companies from the CompassUol Group to which Avenue Code’s consultants are allocated to perform its services.
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