Sr. Analyst Finance - IT Controlling

Sysmex•Buffalo Grove, IL

3d•$115,000 - $125,000

About The Position

Sysmex is seeking a highly qualified and motivated Sr. Analyst, Finance - IT Controlling. This role reports directly to the Director of Finance and serves as the Finance team partner to the VP of Information Technology. The position will influence decision-making regarding the development of customer-facing and internal-use IT products and spending, aligning IT KPIs and reporting with the company's IT strategy. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, as well as demonstrate strategic thinking capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or other relevant field required.
5+ years previous experience in Finance with relevant experience in Financial and Business Forecasting, Reporting and Analysis.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
5+ years experience with MS Excel, PowerPoint, and other MS Office products
5+ years experience in Oracle required
Leadership presence and the ability to constructively challenge functional and business leaders, advocating for performance and results
Strong attention to detail, highly organized, and ability to multi-task
Ability to work well on large and small cross-functional teams
Initiative and self-starting capabilities to execute in a regional commercial organization

Nice To Haves

5+ years SAP experience preferred.
MS Power BI experience preferred
Experience with MS Copilot or equivalent preferred

Responsibilities

Monitor and control IT operating and capital expenditures to ensure alignment with approved budgets and strategic priorities.
Establish governance processes for evaluating, prioritizing, and tracking IT investments throughout the project lifecycle.
Provide visibility into project portfolio performance (ROI business cases), budget utilization, and benefit realization while ensuring corporate control policies are followed to measure necessary investment decisions ensuring investments are the best use of company capital.
Analyze software licensing utilization and spending to identify optimization opportunities.
Partner with Procurement and IT stakeholders to negotiate renewals and reduce unnecessary software costs.
Track vendor contract commitments, maintenance agreements, and cloud subscription expenses.
Develop and maintain chargeback or showback models for allocating IT costs across business functions as deemed appropriate.
Ensure transparency of IT service costs and consumption metrics to business stakeholders.
Develop long-range financial models and scenario analyses to support strategic IT planning including sensitivity analyses related to staffing, software investments, and infrastructure costs.
Provide financial oversight for major IT initiatives, including ERP enhancements, cybersecurity, infrastructure, cloud, and data analytics projects.
Monitor project budgets, resource utilization, milestones, and business case assumptions.
Measure post-implementation benefits against approved ROI targets.
Own the financial planning and analysis processes including the annual budget and monthly forecast of revenue, margin, opex, cash flow spend for IT related product streams (e.g. CWS) and cost centers and presents financials at the IT Leadership meetings.
Other duties and special projects as assigned