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Job Title
Financial Analyst
Job Location
Kansas City
Job Type
Business Services
Country/Territory
United States
Region
The Americas
Description
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.
-Principals Only-
We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional
growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our work place and
it is the policy of the Firm to recruit, hire, promote, reassign,
compensate and train highly qualified persons without regard to
race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, religion, national origin, age, disability or any
other basis protected by applicable law.
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