The mission of the Cost Optimization team is to bring a business mindset to technology spend, ensuring costs are optimized and controlled, investment aligns with strategic goals, and value is realized. This position provides insight into and assists in the management of the firm's technology spend, and will create/refine processes and procedures to optimize interaction between IT and finance. The successful candidate for this position will be detail oriented and have a strong desire to assist the technology organization with getting the best return on investment.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate creation and management of the global technology budget
• Produce regular reports on technology spend, including actuals, forecasts, variance to budget, expenses, allocations, and technology services cost breakdowns.
• Collaborate across Corporate Finance to establish standard cost allocation methodologies & reporting structure for Global IT expenditures.
• Budget analysis to provide insight on areas needing increased controls & optimization.
• Create detailed project cost tracking processes and documents that enforce accurate controls and outcomes for major investments.
• Complete return on investment (ROI) and cost optimization analysis across technology spend and contracts in concert with technology staff and leadership.
• Work with Technology Procurement Specialists to ensure proper process exists to control and document global spend and that payments align with contractual commitments.
• Creation of proposed policy changes and standardization that will lead to optimization of IT vendor relations and corresponding economies.
• Maintain cash flow forecast model in partnership with global controllers.
• Handle various assignments from the CFO, CIO and other firm leadership.

*Duties other than the above may also be assigned.

Required Education

Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field preferred.

Required Experience

• 3-8 years of financial/budgetary analysis role
• 2-5 years of technology financial planning and support
• International business experience and foreign currency familiarity preferred but not required

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Works mostly independently with minimal supervision. Determines own approach to assigned tasks of moderate complexity.
• Effectively leads small-medium cost analysis projects. Able to give effective presentations and write convincing proposals / reports.
• Generates new formats for budgets and complex reports. Applies creative methods to gather and analyze data in different ways and contribute information to financial decision making.
• Follows approval processes and makes suggestions for improvement.

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