IT Financial Analyst

Goodlettsville, TN 37070

The IT Financial Analyst contingent worker supports the day-to-day financial operations, analysis, and reporting required to manage IT spend. The 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 for leadership decision-making.

• Financial planning, forecasting, and budget support
• Support annual planning and reoccurring 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 period.
• Identify forecast risks, opportunities, timing changes, funding gaps, and potential offsets; elevate items requiring owner or leadership decisions.
• Prepare variance and trend analysis and follow up with owners to document assumptions and corrective actions.
• Purchase orders, invoices, vendors, and payment support
• Create and realign purchase orders, validate available budget before commitment, and maintain visibility to committed spend.
• Review invoices for coding, supporting documentation, activity alignment, and approval readiness; coordinate processing and follow-up.
• Research payment status, missing or late invoices, vendor discrepancies, and payment disputes with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Tax, Finance, suppliers, and IT owners.
• Support supplier onboarding and other recurring vendor financial administration
• Actuals, accruals, reconciliation, and accounting operations
• 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 reclasses, activity corrections, and data cleanup through closure.
• Validate financial files and reports, document differences, and maintain clear audit support.
• 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 translate changes in timing, staffing, scope, vendors, or delivery plans into forecast impacts.
• Support workforce cost scenarios, labor funding, labor savings, rate changes, labor budget analysis and funding true-ups.
• Reporting, cost center support, and issue resolution
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports for cost center owners, Finance partners, project teams, and IT leadership.
• Explain financial drivers, coding requirements, process deadlines, and required actions in clear business terms.
• Respond to budget, invoice, purchase order, actuals, forecast, travel, and coding questions and coordinate cross‑functional resolution.
• Perform quality control so reports are accurate, reconciled, and concise before distribution.
• Process improvement and documentation
• 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.

Working knowledge of…