IT Business Analyst

Financial Practitioner / Business Analyst

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Financial Practitioner / Business Analyst for a hybrid position (3 days onsite per week required) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

In this role, you will be responsible for the management and oversight of technology executives' financial allocations. This position requires a business-centric mindset with the ability to use sound judgment to drive optimal outcomes. The ideal candidate will be a quick learner, organized, and able to work with all levels of management to prioritize work and meet deadlines by developing business partner relationships across the firm.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the tech exec's base and initiative allocations to ensure tech exec spend and recovery is accurate
• Report on and mitigate monthly variance between forecasts and actuals, keeping variances to a minimum
• Partner with project managers and resource managers to capture resource allocations and forecasts; report on outcomes of financial forecasting activity
• Provide inputs for weekly financial updates to tech exec on the financial health of their organization including resource allocations, contract setup and billing challenges, project funding expectations and burn
• Leverage allocation reporting tools to track and manage project level resource allocations as input to project forecasting
• Support the yearly planning process
• Track work efforts against team capacity and allocate in internal tools for one or more teams of varying sizes
• Aggregate and analyze project estimates (and required funding) across the various parts of the organization to derive a comprehensive team view
• Research funding or allocation gaps/discrepancies and assist in resolution
• Partner with the program execution team to balance multiple service provider estimates across a project within project funding limits and greater portfolio funding limits; identify options to mitigate any risk or opportunities that arise across the whole portfolio

Requirements:

• Strong financial experience
• Experience with forecasting and financial analysis to ensure proper resource allocation is maintained to support efforts within funding limits
• Advanced Excel skills (to include pivot tables, sumifs & vlookups), general financial acumen, analytical skills, detail oriented
• Ability to manage, structure, and consolidate multiple sources of data into intelligent reports and stories, and take appropriate actions to remedy outlier situations; can operate assertively and independently in a fast-paced environment
• Strong relationship, verbal and written communication, team building, and influencing skills
• Highly organized and motivated self-starter and quick learner
• Ability to manage multiple financial priorities simultaneously
• Analytical experience ability to make sense of data from multiple sources and put into views for Executive consumption

Desired Skills:

• Prior experience within a large-scale financial services environment
• Experience with enterprise finance, forecasting, or allocation tools

Pay range: $43.56 - $51.56 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!