Senior Financial Analyst - Information Technology

Our history:From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 200+ individuals nationwide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track recordWho We Are:Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities, from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project-based work

The Senior Financial Analyst, Information Technology (I.T.) supports financial planning, analysis, reporting, and controls activities for assigned Information Technology spend areas. Will partner with the Managing Director, IT Finance, IT budget owners, project managers, Procurement, Accounting, PMO, and other Finance stakeholders to support accurate budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, capital tracking, vendor spend analysis and recurring financial reporting.The individual should be able to perform the following functions consistent with the job performance requirements.

• Prepares financial analysis, reporting, and variance explanations for assigned IT spend areas, including operating expense, capital spend, vendor services, maintenance, and technology projects.
• Supports the annual IT budget and monthly forecast processes by gathering inputs, maintaining templates, validating assumptions, preparing schedules, analyzing trends, and documenting risks and opportunities.
• Monitors actual spend, purchase commitments, project costs, invoices, accruals, and forecasts changes to help ensure financial data is accurate, complete, and timely.
• Supports financial tracking for assigned IT portfolios, ensuring spend, commitments, forecasts, and reporting are organized by the applicable IT functional structure.
• Assists with capital project financial tracking, including approved budgets, actual spend, commitments, forecast to complete, project coding, capitalization support, and project closeout activities.
• Prepares monthly reporting packages, dashboards, reconciliations, schedules, and analysis for review by the Managing Director and IT leadership.
• Supports financial models, business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and scenario analyses for technology investments, renewals, and cost optimization opportunities.
• Research and explains budget variances, forecast changes, vendor spend trends, software renewal activity, hardware lifecycle costs, and project financial performance.
• Maintains financial files, templates, reporting tools, trackers, and documentation to support consistent IT finance processes and audit-ready records.
• Works with IT budget owners and project teams to gather information, validates financial data, follows up on open items, resolves routine financial questions, and prepares issues for review by the Managing Director.
• Identifies data issues, process gaps, unusual trends, potential financial risks, and variance drivers. Document findings and recommends next steps for escalation or resolution.
• Supports development, documentation, maintenance, and consistent execution of IT finance policies, procedures, templates, trackers, reporting standards, and standard work.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field is required.
• 4 + years of progressive experience in Finance, Accounting, FP&A, business analysis, or a related financial role is required.
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, variance analyses, financial reports, reconciliations, and management schedules required.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, operating expense management, capital tracking, accruals, project costs, and financial reporting required.
• Ability to analyze detailed financial data, identify trends, explain variances, and summarize findings clearly for finance and non-finance stakeholder required.
• Finance experience with supporting various IT areas: cybersecurity, infrastructure, end-user computing, hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, vendor contracts, or technology project financial management preferred.
• Experience supporting capital project tracking, capitalization processes, fixed asset activity, or project portfolio reporting preferred.
• Experience with ERP, EPM, planning, reporting, procurement, business intelligence, or project portfolio management systems preferred.
• Experience developing dashboards, recurring reports, financial trackers, or process documentation preferred.