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Senior IT Financial Analyst

TekWissen LLC

North Chicago, IL

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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$75–$85
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Budget Management, Budget Reporting, Budgeting, Business Operations, Business Processes, Business Support, Change Order Management, Communication Skills, Computer Security, Conflict Resolution, Consulting, Corporate Finance, Cost Control, Crisis Management, Cross-Functional, Data Quality, Diversity, Documentation, Establish Priorities, Expense Tracking, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Financial Operations, Financial Reporting, Financial Systems, Forecasting, Funding, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Investment Management, Leadership, Legal, Maintain Compliance, Medical Products, Microsoft Excel, Negotiation Skills, Operational Improvement, Operations Processes, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Procurement Management, Procurement Planning, Purchasing/Procurement, Quality Management, Quantitative Analysis, Reporting Skills, Risk Management, SAP, Security Monitoring, Strategic Planning, Technical Writing, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
North Chicago, IL
POSTED
1 day ago
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: Senior IT Financial Analyst
Location: North Chicago, IL 60064
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description
Describe the primary goals, objectives or functions or outputs of this position.
  • The Senior Department Financial Analyst will be responsible for enabling Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) solutions delivery through effective execution of departmental procurement and budget management processes. This role will partner with key stakeholders, leadership, and cross-functional teams to provide consulting, support, and direction in areas associated with the planning, procurement, provisioning, and financial management of information security solutions. They are expected to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure financial targets are met, drive cost optimization opportunities, and contribute to the improvement of operational practices and processes.
Responsibilities
List up to 10 main responsibilities for the job. Include information about accountability and scope.
  • Partner with key stakeholders to understand specific business processes and objectives, supporting short and long-term strategic planning, solution discovery, and procurement needs.
  • Lead and refine procurement processes in collaboration with finance, procurement partners[WS1.1], and other key stakeholders, ensuring purchasing activities flow cleanly and support budgetary tracking and reporting.
  • Establish and define processes to ensure financial data is accurate across workbooks.
  • Manage the departmental budget and project spend, partnering closely with functional leaders and portfolio management partners to ensure we accurately plan and consistently execute against financial targets.
  • Collaborate with portfolio and project management partners to align project management processes to financial forecasting and reporting requirements.
  • Partner with corporate finance to drive operational excellence and standards for monthly and quarterly forecasts and LBE s (Latest Best Estimates).
  • Support annual Capital Plan[WS2.1], and Long-Range Planning (LRP) activities, ensuring funding requests clearly support our defined strategic objectives.
  • Develop reporting for leadership and key stakeholders to enable effective financial governance and transparent communications.
  • Meet monthly with cross-functional partners to review active projects and proactively manage change orders, renewal timelines, and planned expenditures to ensure maximum transparency and alignment and drive effective forecasting.
  • Maintain compliance with all applicable Client Corporate (e.g., Finance, Purchasing, OEC, Legal), and IT department policies and procedures.
Qualifications
Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in a business or financial field and 7 years experience OR Master's Degree and 6 years experience OR PhD and 2 years experience.
  • Minimum of 4 years of experience in corporate financial management including budgeting, forecasting, and contracting/procurement support.
  • Proven experience in budget management and forecasting for complex, multi-faceted organizations.
  • Experience operating within complex procurement processes to drive efficient purchasing and clear alignment with budgetary requirements.
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain high-quality relationships with all levels across the company and with external partners.
  • Ability to design impactful financial reporting for both technical and non-technical customers including executive audiences.
  • Experience working with enterprise financial systems and tools such as SAP.[WS3.1]
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate and negotiate projects and priorities across functions and/or organizations; proven experience in situations of conflict resolution, problem solving and crisis management.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly and concisely present financial information to a variety of audiences, including executive leadership and stakeholders.
  • Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence without authority, and strong analytical thinking skills are critical to success in this position.
Beneficial:
  • The ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem solve, scope financial requirements, and prioritize.
  • Experience modernizing and automating departmental budget and financial management processes.
  • Understanding of IT or Information Security concepts, terminology, and operations.
  • Experience supporting business or financial operations for an IT or Information Security department.
  • Experience with technical writing and process documentation.
  • Experience working with globally-distributed stakeholders and customers.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/

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