Senior Contract Management Analyst

Overview

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, SPECTRAFORCE TECHNOLOGIES Inc., is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!

Senior Contract Management Analyst –
Oakland, CA /
Sacramento, CA – Hybrid (1–3 days onsite in a week)

8 months+ contract. Local candidates in the Bay Area including Sacramento/Oakland only.

• Assist with the daily contract operations and provide general IT business & planning support.
• Prepare reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data; prepare presentation materials for management reports.
• Enter contract financial liabilities into the contract management ATRIUM tool.
• Assist in initiation, orchestration and coordination of contract renewal analysis for IT operations and financial reviews; analyze multi-year contracts to optimize cost.
• Maintain annual Operational Expense budgets, enter financial data into tracking systems, and compile regular and ad-hoc financial status reports.
• Monitor Purchase Orders, review contract invoices, accruals, identify disparities, and resolve issues with vendors.
• Analyze actual spend and forecasting to determine if/when change controls and escalation reporting to leadership are appropriate.
• Provide financial analysis on portfolio cost variances for plan vs. actuals and identify inappropriate charges; make corrections in SAP.
• Lead meetings and act as a liaison among stakeholders to coordinate, document, and schedule changes to IT contracts.
• Capture, analyze and present data to managers and directors to aid in business decision making.
• Plan and control the scope of work on contract renewals; ensure origination targets are met and aligned with standards.
• Develop communications to summarize analysis and discuss recommendations for peers and executives (dashboards, PowerPoint decks, or summarized emails).
• Facilitate problem-solving sessions with diverse business and technology teams.
• Proactively follow up on issues and initiatives for senior leaders to ensure resolution and implementation.
• Work with leaders and key stakeholders to ensure initiatives are delivered timely and aligned with organizational goals.
• Collaborate with the data management, financial analysis and modeling team to build new tools and migrate reports to Power BI.
• Experience with downloading and extracting data from SAP into meaningful BI reports and dashboards.
• Work with IT and functional leadership to establish key business, financial and performance metrics.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Visio, PowerPoint and expert-level Excel skills.
• 5 to 8 years of related work experience.

• May require valid CA driver’s license.
• Experience with structuring contract agreements.
• Experience with basic financial modeling or data management.
• Experience presenting to leadership and developing PowerPoint slides.
• Power BI experience is a plus.

Client is seeking a highly motivated IT Contract Management Analyst to manage a portfolio of technology contracts on behalf of IT leadership. This role interfaces with vendors and internal stakeholders, acting as the client’s representative for day-to-day contract management interactions. The analyst will work with internal teams to implement enterprise policies, risk controls, invoice compliance reviews, goods receipts, and obtain leadership approvals for O&M contract services.

This role administers contract strategic reviews with leaders, architects, and IT operations, and drives consensus and validation for O&M costs. Additional responsibilities include identifying opportunities to rationalize or right-size contracts, discontinue non-critical services, and identify cost optimization opportunities. The position collaborates with Sourcing to understand contract scope, cost, terms, and conditions and partners with the IT PMO and IT leaders to capture incremental O&M costs at the time of purchase.

For information on benefits, equal opportunity employment, and location-specific applicant notices, click. SPECTRAFORCE is committed to fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with applicable laws. This position’s starting pay is: $50.00/hr.