IT Portfolio Analyst (Budget/Financial)

Visions Management - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Senior

San Francisco, CA

Real Estate

About the position

The IT Portfolio Analyst (Budget/Financial) role is focused on standardizing and overseeing IT spending within the organization. This position collaborates with IT teams and Finance and Procurement to provide a comprehensive overview of current, pending, and forecasted expenditures, while prioritizing the realization of savings benefits. The role is remote and requires occasional travel, with a contract duration of one year and the possibility of extension.

Responsibilities

• Implement standard methods for project performance monitoring, reporting, analysis, trend assessment, scheduling and estimating.
• Drive conversations with functional and project managers for accurate estimation of team resource requirements on active and planned project work.
• Independently evaluate project cost estimating, payment schedule, and spend reports to maintain an accurate overview of the financial standing of the IT Project Portfolio.
• Collaborate on contract proposals, ensuring a thorough cost-benefits analysis is performed.
• Analyze the financial impact to existing portfolio when new projects surface and work with functional and project managers to identify alternative strategies to keep projects on track.
• Proactively analyze, identify, and report on trends that could negatively impact other projects functionally or financially, including review of project change requests.
• Develop and maintain dashboard views of portfolio finances for senior management.
• Collaborate with IT Procurement to establish processes that produce a holistic view of IT spend.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• Extensive experience in accounting and financial analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in risk analysis.
• Experience with vendor contract management.
• Ability to translate forecasts and analyses into actionable recommendations.
• Comfort in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities and projects.
• Desire to improve and modify processes for product development.