Business Analyst, Cost Transparency & Financial Analytics

Description

The Business Analyst, Cost Transparency & Financial Analytics is responsible for providing clear, consistent, and decision ready financial insights aligned to enterprise delivery execution. This role develops cost transparency and unit cost models, partners closely with Finance, and ensures financial analytics are fully aligned with delivery performance reporting. The role enables informed investment, prioritization, and tradeoff decisions while maintaining credible,regulatory financial narratives.

• Develop and maintain cost transparency models aligned to delivery units, portfolios, and operating models
• Partner with Finance to define, govern, and track unit cost and cost to value metrics
• Analyze cost drivers related to delivery velocity, quality, rework, and capacity constraints
• Support investment, funding, and prioritization discussions by providing clear cost to value and trade off insights
• Align financial analytics with portfolio and delivery performance reporting for leadership governance and regulatory audiences
• Ensure consistency and integrity between delivery metrics, cost analytics, and financial narratives
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, executive ready insights that support decision making

• Experience in workforce planning, capacity modeling, or resource management within a portfolio, program, or enterprise delivery environment
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize data across teams, vendors, and timelines
• Proven ability to influence decision making through data driven insights and scenario analysis
• Experience partnering with Finance and Delivery leaders on planning, forecasting, and tradeoff discussions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex analysis into clear, concise executive narratives
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align capacity and workforce decisions to enterprise priorities, strategic commitments, and value outcomes
• Proven ability to influence without authority and guide leadership decisions on prioritization, trade-offs, and investment timing
• Exceptional critical thinking and judgment in evaluating competing demands, resource constraints, and risk implications
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility across Finance, Delivery, and vendor partners
• Effective facilitation skills to lead structured discussions on trade-offs, capacity constraints, and workforce strategies
• Demonstrated ability to operate in complex, matrixed environments with competing priorities and evolving demands
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple planning cycles, scenarios, and deadlines concurrently
• Ability to translate workforce and capacity insights into clear business impacts, including delivery timelines, cost implications, and risk exposure
• High level of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail in planning, analysis, and executive communications
• Strong collaboration and negotiation skills, particularly in balancing internal capacity with vendor strategies and constraints
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in workforce planning decisions where inputs or forecasts may be incomplete

• Experience supporting large, cross functional portfolios or enterprise transformation initiatives
• Familiarity with vendor heavy delivery models and dependency risk management
• Advanced skills in planning, modeling,process engineering and visualization tools (e.g., Excel based models, Power BI, or similar)
• Experience building dashboards and reports for leadership.
  
  Able to translate data into decisions
• Experience working within a governance, roadmap, or portfolio…