Job Description

The Operations & Infrastructure Spend Management team provides essential value by driving O&I funded technology purchases while providing analytical insight to technology product owners, optimizing costs in correlation to product value, and ensuring to remain within the given fiscal budget.

The Associate Business Analyst will provide quality analysis through anticipating purchases in advance, performing vendor cost comparison, evaluating currently technology state in comparison with demand. Analyst is also responsible for assisting with ATS/TAR creation, pushing for quick approvals, continuously updating large deals within a 30-60-90 pipeline, entering accurate forecasts, creating tickets for PR/PO creation, and providing quick turnaround from purchase initiation to PO. In addition, this position is also responsible for supporting O&I workforce planning.

Essential Functions:    

• Responsible for budget preparation, quarterly forecasting, monthly variance reconciliation, and procurement processes for the assigned technology lane.
• Work cross functionally across multiple internal functions and external parties
• Assist with driving large-scale projects with ambiguous scope into refined deliverables for executive consumption leveraging project management skills, including ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, follow through on completion of high-profile projects  
• Support O&I wide workforce plan dashboards and reports.
• Regularly create and present detailed reports on workforce planning. These reports should provide insights into the effectiveness of current plans, highlight areas for improvement, and forecast future workforce needs
• Track FTE and Contingent resources through workforce life cycle. 
• Manage BPO contracts through its life cycle from initiation of work orders, raising purchase requests, managing invoices, and closing out contracts.
• Facilitate weekly meetings with the senior leadership team to discuss current workforce planning strategies and initiatives, report on outcomes, and gather input for future planning Perform variance vs. forecast analysis to understand how accurate our inputs, assumptions and demand plans are to identify areas of opportunity, and create continuous improvement plans to deliver more accurate forecasts each iteration

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications  

• A bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Business Analytics, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Business or related field

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working on large globally and virtually distributed teams 
• Experience in the following:   
  • dealing with different software licensing methods in the FinTech industry  
  • SQL querying to help collect data from disparate sources  
  • creating cost transparency and cost clarity programs for leadership  
• Analytical skills and experience using analytics tools such as Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.  
• Experience working on large globally and virtually distributed teams 
• Technical industry experience and quantitative skills & experience taking raw data and drawing actionable insights from it  
• Understanding infrastructure products and the core concepts behind "running IT like a business"
• Prior business analytics experience