Reporting to the Director of IT Expense Management, the Senior Financial Analyst will be supporting the finance activities for IT business partners. The role responsibilities will include delivery of monthly expense results, contributing to the final leader plan/forecast, and helping the achievement of expense results. This person will possess the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Undergraduate degree (business, economics or finance preferred)
• 4+ years of relevant experience in progressive accounting roles
• Professional accounting designation or MBA or equivalent experience
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration, negotiation, and influence
• Self-starter with independent judgment and problem-solving abilities
• Skilled at handling expectations, deadlines, and priorities
• Excellent customer focus and commitment to quality
• Strong business sense with clear communication of complex concepts
• Solid analytical skills to synthesize information for senior management
• Skills related to MS Office in particular Excel and Power BI. Familiarity with Lawson, Essbase

• Be responsible for preparing complete and accurate monthly, quarterly and annual expense analysis for the function (e.g. Direct and allocated expenses)
• Provide ongoing support to functions for forecasting and budget processes. This includes assistance in the consolidation of various cost centers across multiple towers
• Support close processes (accruals, prepaids, etc.) to ensure predictable and accurate reporting.
• Present ongoing and ad hoc analysis, to senior management across IT and Finance
• Work closely with function liaisons to understand inquiries related to direct or allocated charges.
• Prepare monthly commentary for functional and business unit or segment reporting
• Understand and oversee accrual accounts for the function, to ensure they are properly recorded, reconciled and settled in a timely manner
• Support financial oversight and validation of project business cases. Provide ongoing support of required project reporting to management
• Work to continuously improve processes to gain efficiency in production, standardize and enhance quality of information. Support implementation of the Expense Finance in Transformation ( ExFit ) program for the IT Finance team. Provide key input on direction of the ExFit program on point of arrival for IT Finance and impacts for IT finance team