IT Finance Operations Analyst

IT Finance Operations Analyst

The IT Finance Operations Analyst supports the IT organization's project financial operations, with a primary focus on purchase order management, invoice processing, month-end close support, accruals, vendor coordination, financial reporting, and KPI tracking across technology cost centers. This role partners closely with IT leadership, FP&A, Accounting, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and vendor stakeholders to ensure accurate, timely, and well-controlled financial processes that support the project execution, budget visibility, and portfolio decision-making.

As the IT organization continues to evolve toward a more product-centric operating model, this role will also support the IT Finance Planning & Operations function by helping standardize processes, improve reporting, and identify opportunities to automate manual work. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, financially disciplined, comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, and interested in improving how work gets done through process and automation.

Minimum Eligibility Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Accounting, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 3–5 years of experience in finance operations, IT finance, project financial support, procurement operations, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience with ERP or procurement systems for PO creation, invoice processing, or financial tracking.
• Strong understanding of the procure-to-pay process.
• Working knowledge of CAPEX vs. OPEX treatment and cost center allocation.
• Experience supporting month-end closing, accruals, actuals tracking, or financial reporting.
• Experience with reporting tools, dashboards, or automation tools.
• Detail-oriented, financially disciplined, skilled at collaborating with multiple stakeholders, and eager to enhance work processes through process and automation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting IT or technology cost centers.
• Familiarity with systems such as Oracle, Coupa, Workday, Power BI, Power Automate, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
• Exposure to FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, or project portfolio financial reporting.
• Experience supporting contractor spend, vendor spend, or workforce tracking.
• Experience working in an Agile, product-centric, or project-based operating model.

Essential Job Functions:

• Manage end-to-end IT financial operations, including purchase order and invoice processing, month-end close support, accruals, financial reporting, vendor financial management, process improvement, and cross-functional stakeholder coordination.
• Administer the full procure-to-pay (P2P) lifecycle, including PO creation, approval tracking, invoice matching, reconciliation, discrepancy resolution, spend tracking, and proper CAPEX/OPEX classification.
• Support monthly close activities by preparing accruals, reconciling expenditures, reviewing financial variances, maintaining prepaid and allocation reporting, and ensuring accurate financial documentation.
• Maintain and deliver financial reporting, forecasting, budget tracking, variance analysis, contractor spend reporting, and portfolio performance insights for IT leadership and FP&A.
• Oversee vendor financial administration, including onboarding validations, contract and spend tracking, payment issue resolution, business reviews, renewal monitoring, and coordination with Legal, Procurement, and Accounts Payable.
• Drive process standardization, reporting automation, dashboard development, workflow improvements, and data quality initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and financial accuracy.
• Serve as the primary liaison among IT, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Accounts Payable, and vendors, providing financial updates, managing escalations, and ensuring effective communication and compliance.

Working Conditions (Travel & Environment):

• Typically quiet to moderate office environment

Physical/Sensory Requirements

• Sedentary Work – Ability to exert 10 - 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most…