Lead IT Business Analyst

PPL Corporation • Johnstone, Pennsylvania

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead IT Project Coordinator sits at the intersection of technology delivery and IT Finance and is embedded within the IT Value Stream organization. In this role, you will partner with IT Finance Business Partners (FBPs) and Technology Value Stream Leads to convert real-time agile delivery metrics and project milestones into highly accurate financial forecasts. You will own the data integrity of your assigned stream, utilizing tools like IBM Apptio Planning and Jira to optimize a multi-million-dollar technology portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance, Project Management, Management Information Systems (MIS), or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience working as a project coordinator, PMO analyst, or financial coordinator within an enterprise technology or corporate finance environment.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives, establishing governance practices, and advising senior stakeholders.
• Advanced experience tracking project deliverables via Jira, Azure DevOps, Clarity, or alternative PPM software.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex technology budgets, experience tracking financial milestones, and advanced Excel proficiency.
• Prior experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) or Agile velocity models is a plus.
• Willingness and capability to complete intensive upskilling on IBM Apptio Planning and Technology Business Management (TBM) logic within the first 60 days.
• Ability to lead working sessions across engineering teams on technical delivery details while summarizing the resulting cost impacts for finance specialists.
• High standard of accuracy when handling large data sheets, system records, and multi-million-dollar vendor statements of work.

Responsibilities

• Track Leading Indicators: Monitor and validate the stream’s Earned Delivery Indicator (EDI), tracking Cost Performance Index (CPI) and Delivery Performance Index (DPI) metrics.
• Audit Tool Inputs: Partner with product owners and Scrum masters to ensure developer velocity, story points, and milestone updates in Jira/Azure DevOps/Clarity accurately reflect physical progress.
• Flag Early Warnings: Identify operational delivery slippage or sprint velocity drops early, proactively escalating these trends to the FBP before they create budget overruns.
• Maintain Financial Data: Act as the primary operator for inputting, updating, and adjusting monthly rolling forecasts in Apptio.
• Govern Capitalization Metrics: Apply labor tracking methodologies to classify internal software development costs as CapEx or OpEx, ensuring software capitalization matches engineering output.
• Process Vendor Lifecycles: Reconcile contractor timesheets, specialized consultant statements of work (SOWs), and monthly third-party invoices against achieved milestones prior to payment authorization.
• Partner with FBPs: Co-author the monthly value stream forecast with assigned FBPs, integrating EDI metrics to calculate true Estimates at Completion (EAC).
• Secure Accuracy Limits: Drive transactional precision to maintain a rolling 90-day value stream forecast variance within the target ±3% threshold.
• Build Month-End Accruals: Generate precise month-end accounting accruals by matching physical vendor milestones against open Purchase Orders (POs) and corporate general ledgers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level