IT Finance & Support Analyst with Pharma Princeton or Rockville location 1 to two days a week
GC/USC/EAD
IT Finance & Support Analyst:
- Produce and manage annual budget & quarterly forecasts for I&H IT business areas
- Track and report monthly accruals
- Track and report against I&H IT business areas and rollup levels by various categories
- Create and manage Purchase Orders in Ariba
- Escalate issues related to procurement/ expenses as needed to appropriate party
- Review SOWs/ Quotes and ensure proper approval process is followed and efficient
- Track contract end dates and ensure renewals are completed in advance of expirations (e.g. MSAs SOWs SLAs software renewals etc.)
- Provide procurement related reporting
- Approve invoices and track expenses against budgets/ forecasts
- Ensure invoice matches expected spend prior to approval and issues are escalated
- Capital Requests and Tracking
- Depreciation tracking
- Close capital requests as completed
- Manage Equipment recycling and coordinate pickup
Cloud Economist:
- Develop Show Back Charge Back Cost Allocation and budget forecast models related to Cloud utilization and consumption utilizing tools such as CloudHealth for multicloud environment
- Reporting to business application owners the monthly cloud computing services consumption costs that will be used for showback/charge back to the respective line of business/cost centers
- Identify cost optimization opportunities and partner with cloud architects and application leads to resolve/solution and implement
- Develop business reviews and presentation materials for C level and senior management team regarding spend growth progress and roadblocks on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) topics
- Review and update tagging guidelines to ensure appropriate categorization of costs
- Define metrics and guardrails to identify opportunities and optimize cost performance
- Define requirements for alerting when costs are higher than expected within a billing cycle
- Develop and administer Power BI reporting/tracking of all TCO/economicrelated activities
- Report on project costs and product cost
- Development of Saving Plan Reserve Instance ondemand and spot instance strategy and guidelines across multiple services
- Coordinates and consolidates efforts working closely with colleagues from FP&A Strategic Sourcing Infrastructure & Hosting and relevant areas of the business
- Development Cost Allocation Models for Shared Services
- Develop and manage Cloud Compute cost forecasts for business application owners to support the annual budgeting process
- Support TCO Cost Estimating processes and KPI metrics
Qualifications/Experience:
- Bachelors degree in finance business or a related field or equivalent work experience
- Masters or Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 2 years experience in IT financial management
- Minimum of 1 years experience utilizing CloudHealth software
Required Skills Include:
- Strong working knowledge of Ariba
- Knowledge of Procure To Pay (PTP) and Finance work
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with great attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience in financial modeling and analysis of large scale IT infrastructure application and/or service investments
- Microsoft Excel and Power BI understanding and experience
- Report Generation/Automation skills and insight is a plus
- Understands Cloud computing technologies (AWS/OCI/Azure) and can anticipate workload transition challenges
- Experience supporting and preparing analysis for a multiCloud environment
- Willingness to research and selfstudy to keep technical skills relevant in a highly complex environment
- Ability to take charge of a project and see it through until completion
- Innovative and ability to think outside the box for creative problem solving
- Comfortable working in crossfunctional and multidisciplinary teams
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to multitask and prioritize deadlines
- Experience in building and operating financial control and analysis systems (cloud cost analysis showback and chargeback)
- Ability to report on financial data
- Experience understanding how cloud resources are tagged
- Experience using tools to perform billbacks and showbacks
- Experience providing suggestions about cost optimizations
- Experience reporting to individual application owners or IT on cost savings ideas