IT Financial Portfolio Analyst
Job Summary
The IT Financial and Portfolio Analyst provides critical financial analysis and reporting to support IT business decisions. This role acts as a liaison between regional and global IT/Finance teams, managing budget processes, forecasting, and resource allocation. The position ensures financial alignment and accuracy across program portfolios, accounting reconciliations, and capital expenditure tracking.
Responsibilities
- Manage IT budgets, Opex, and Capex tracking
- Lead financial forecasting and resource planning
- Perform month-end close and financial reconciliation
- Generate portfolio reports and project health checks
Required Skills
- 5-7 years financial/IT portfolio analysis experience
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
- SAP experience (preferred)
- Analytical and reporting skills
Job Details
Job Scope:
- Provides financial/portfolio leadership and support of the IT budget
- Represents global PMO/IT-Finance function in the region
- Maintains relationships and open communication with IT-Director, global PMO, IT-Finance, Project Managers, BRMs, Affiliate and global finance teams
- Ensures financial alignment and accuracy across global PMO, IT-Finance and Affiliate-Finance
- Manages financial reporting and ad-hoc analysis as requested
- Leads Resource Forecast and Financial Forecast Process
- Spearhead monthly forecasting process for resources and budgets
- Support monthly, quarterly and year-end close process including setting expectations, deliverables, timelines, etc
- Manage regular holistic reporting on resource, application, finance to IT-Director
- Manages Month End Close for IT Dept
- Works on (Opex and Capex) to make sure all accruals are sent to the Accounting Team before month
- Monitor amount spent by vendor, department, projects, stakeholders
- Create PO’s and match invoices to PO’s
- Reconciliation of IT Billing Data to IT Billing in SAP
- Assist in Monthly reclasses and cross charges
- Leads Capex/Opex Reporting and Analysis
- Monitor and track Request for Capital Employed (RCE) cost against budget
- Monitor all the Opex charges, budget transfers to IT cost centre
- Monitor and track cost against budget
- Understand depreciation/amortization and how it impacts the P&L
- Portfolio Analysis and Reporting: Keep track of IT application portfolio, support portfolio rationalization effort, administer project requests and health checks
Job Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related field
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in financial and/or IT portfolio analysis
- Analytical and quantitative skills with attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize data and prepare complex reports
- Time management and organizational skills with ability to multitask
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working with SAP is good to have
- Proven experience in identifying and executing improvements in process; self-motivated problem solver
- Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint