IT Financial Analyst

TEKsystems•Goodlettsville, TN

7d•$26 - $31•Onsite

About The Position

The IT Financial Analyst supports the day-to-day financial operations, analysis, and reporting required to manage IT spend. This role partners with IT cost center and activity owners to maintain accurate forecasts, process purchase orders and invoices, reconcile actuals and accruals, support capital and labor reporting, and resolve financial issues. The position also helps improve data quality, standardize repeatable processes, and prepare concise information to support leadership decision-making.

Requirements

Experience in financial analysis, accounting operations, budgeting, procurement support, project finance, or a comparable analytical role.
Experience reconciling financial data and preparing management reporting.
Experience supporting technology organizations, shared services environments, or multiple cost centers.
Working knowledge of: Financial planning, Forecasting, Budgeting, Accruals, Purchase orders, Invoice processing, General ledger concepts, Internal controls
Strong analytical and reconciliation skills with the ability to connect financial activity across accounts, cost centers, activities, initiatives, vendors, labor types, and reporting periods.
Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including: Formulas, Lookups, Pivot Tables, Data Validation, Large-data review
Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and PowerPoint.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong organizational, customer service, attention-to-detail, and time-management skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and appropriately escalate risks or decisions.
Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to document processes, identify control gaps, and recommend practical solutions.
Ability to learn and utilize enterprise financial, procurement, portfolio, and reporting systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Oracle.
Experience with data analysis and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

Support annual planning and recurring reforecast cycles, including template preparation, data collection, validation, consolidation, and system updates.
Maintain budget and forecast detail by cost center, account, activity, initiative, vendor, labor type, and reporting period.
Identify forecast risks, opportunities, timing changes, funding gaps, and potential offsets and escalate issues requiring owner or leadership decisions.
Prepare variance and trend analysis and follow up with stakeholders to document assumptions and corrective actions.
Create and realign purchase orders and verify available budget prior to commitment.
Maintain visibility into committed spend.
Review invoices for coding accuracy, supporting documentation, activity alignment, and approval readiness.
Coordinate invoice processing and follow up on outstanding items.
Research payment status, missing or late invoices, vendor discrepancies, and payment disputes.
Work with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Tax, Finance, suppliers, and IT stakeholders to resolve issues.
Support supplier onboarding and recurring vendor financial administration activities.
Review and reconcile actuals, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, prepaids, labor, and forecasts across financial and operational sources.
Prepare and track accrual support in accordance with established Finance timelines and requirements.
Research uncoded or incorrectly coded transactions and coordinate reclassifications, activity corrections, and data cleanup through resolution.
Validate financial files and reports, document discrepancies, and maintain supporting audit documentation.
Support capital releases, project setup inputs, capital plan reconciliation, and capital overspend reporting.
Assist with capitalizable labor reporting, contingent and FTE labor allocations, and capital versus expense documentation.
Maintain initiative and activity financial structures and evaluate forecast impacts related to staffing, scope, vendor, delivery plan, or timing changes.
Support workforce cost scenarios, labor funding, labor savings initiatives, rate changes, labor budget analysis, and funding true-ups.
Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports for cost center owners, Finance partners, project teams, and IT leadership.
Communicate financial drivers, coding requirements, process deadlines, and required actions in clear business terms.
Respond to budget, invoice, purchase order, actuals, forecast, travel, and coding inquiries.
Coordinate issue resolution across functional teams.
Perform quality control to ensure reports are accurate, reconciled, and concise prior to distribution.
Document standard operating procedures, templates, controls, calendars, and training materials for repeatable IT finance processes.
Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve reporting, reconciliation, workflow, and data quality activities.
Participate in process improvement initiatives and complete assigned deliverables within established timelines.