Sr Analyst: Project Management

Vail Resorts•Broomfield, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Analyst supports financial planning, cost management, cloud spend, and software asset management across Platform Services. The role improves visibility into budgets and technology spending, strengthens forecasting, and helps teams make informed decisions about enterprise platforms, software, and cloud services. It combines financial analysis with hands-on operational work, including maintaining and improving reporting, investigating variances and asset data, and following recommendations through implementation and measurement. The analyst works with Finance, Procurement, platform owners, and delivery teams, with defined decision boundaries for each. The position supports annual and multi-year planning, budget development, forecasts, and in-year reforecasts; tracks actuals, commitments, forecast changes, and variances; and analyzes OPEX and CAPEX spending, planning cycles, renewals, and demand changes. It also analyzes cloud usage and costs across Azure, AWS, and GCP as applicable, identifies and implements cost-saving opportunities, and monitors cloud commitments. Software asset management responsibilities include maintaining inventory, license, entitlement, reclamation, and compliance information in ServiceNow or a comparable tool. The analyst builds reporting and dashboards, translates data into insights and recommendations, and improves data quality, automation, cost controls, and asset management processes. This is a year-round, full-time position. Broomfield-based roles follow a hybrid work environment: employees must live within 50 miles of the Broomfield office and work onsite Tuesday through Thursday, with flexibility to work offsite Mondays and Fridays. Work location arrangements and policies may change at the company’s discretion.

Requirements

Experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, FinOps, software asset management, or a related technology operations role.
Experience supporting budgets for enterprise technology platforms, including tracking actuals, forecasts, commitments, and variances.
Knowledge of business planning cycles and OPEX versus CAPEX spending.
Hands-on experience with ServiceNow Software Asset Management or a comparable enterprise SAM tool.
Experience with Azure FinOps, including cost analysis and cloud cost optimization.
Experience using Power BI and comparable reporting or data analysis tools to develop insights and forecasts.
Ability to work with data from multiple sources, assess its quality, and explain findings clearly.
Demonstrated ability to independently investigate ambiguous issues, develop recommendations, and follow through with stakeholders.
Strong written, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
At least 18 years of age.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Azure Synapse or a comparable data warehouse or analytics platform.
Experience supporting software licensing, renewals, contract or entitlement reconciliation, and vendor coordination.
Exposure to AWS and Google Cloud cost management, including commitment discounts.
Experience with cloud cost allocation, tagging, chargeback, or showback.
Relevant training or certification in FinOps, software asset management, business intelligence, or financial analysis.
ServiceNow CSA or SAM-related certification.
Software/IT Asset Management or FinOps certification.
Relevant FP&A, finance, accounting, or TBM certification.

Responsibilities

Support annual and multi-year planning, budget development, forecasts, and in-year reforecasts for Platform Services.
Track actuals, commitments, forecast changes, and variances across enterprise platforms, software, cloud services, and other technology costs.
Analyze OPEX and CAPEX spending, business planning cycles, renewals, and demand changes to identify financial impacts.
Develop cost estimates and ROI analyses for proposed technology investments, explaining assumptions, risks, and expected outcomes.
Prepare concise financial insights and recommendations for leaders and budget owners.
Analyze cloud usage and spending across Azure, AWS, and GCP as applicable to Platform Services.
Identify cloud cost-saving opportunities, underused resources, waste, and forecast risks; work with technical owners to validate and deliver improvements.
Evaluate, recommend, implement, and monitor cloud commitments, including Azure Reservations and Savings Plans, AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and Google Cloud committed-use discounts.
Track cloud commitment coverage, utilization, realized savings, renewal dates, and changing demand; coordinate purchase and renewal recommendations with platform owners, Finance, and Procurement.
Improve cloud cost attribution through tagging, allocation, and reporting so spending is traceable to services, teams, or business areas.
Partner with product and platform teams to include cost estimates and accountability in planning and delivery workflows.
Support day-to-day software asset management in ServiceNow, including software inventory, normalization, entitlement data, reclamation, and compliance reporting.
Reconcile software deployments, licenses, contracts, and entitlements; investigate discrepancies and coordinate remediation with technical owners, Procurement, and vendors.
Track software renewals, maintenance, and usage to inform licensing decisions and reduce avoidable spending.
Improve the quality, completeness, and consistency of software asset data and related processes.
Build and maintain dashboards, forecasts, and recurring reports using Power BI and related reporting and data tools.
Use Azure Synapse or comparable data platforms, where available, to combine and analyze financial, cloud usage, and software asset data.
Translate complex data into clear trends, forecasts, risks, and recommendations for technical and business audiences.
Document assumptions, data sources, definitions, and processes so results are understandable and repeatable.
Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting automation, cost controls, and asset management processes.

Benefits

Annual bonus
Free employee ski passes
Discounted lift tickets for friends and family
Free ski lessons
Employee discounts on lodging, food, gear, and mountain shuttles
401(k) Retirement Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Training and professional development
Health insurance, including medical, dental, and vision plans for eligible employees
Free ski passes for dependents
Critical illness and accident plans