Title:  Specialist, Finance

Job Title: Specialist, Finance 

Job Code: 36980

Job Location: (On Site) Melbourne FL,

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Corporate Headquarters IT Finance organization is seeking a highly skilled and The Corporate Headquarters IT Finance organization is seeking a motivated self-starter to support the IT Finance Manager in partnering with the IT Organization.  The Finance Specialist will be responsible for a wide variety of detailed financial analysis including budgeting, forecasting and ad hoc reporting for the IT Services organization. 

Essential Functions:

• Forecast and analyze IT services spend in support of monthly forecasting and annual planning cycles; assist Manager in making recommendations for cost saving opportunities
• Provide timely and accurate monthly reporting including variance and trend analysis for management review
• Elevate critical issues/recommendations to management to ensure proactive resolution.
• Work with service owners and project managers to project capital needs and timing of expenditures
• Provide capital investment analysis as requested
• Streamline and automate processes for transforming financial data into decision making information
• Prepare certain account reconciliations and standard journal entries as part of the monthly close
• Support internal and external audit/compliance requirements
• Prepare various ad hoc analyses, reports, and presentations
• Ability to work with other functional areas in a fast-paced, multiple project environment with changing priorities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience PeopleSoft, Ariba, Hyperion, and Business Intelligence SW skills
• Strong teamwork and business partnering skills
• Strong planning, organizational, and analytical skills
• Experience with cost/schedule development, budgeting, Customer/Management reporting, and forecasting
• Process improvement oriented, ability to identify and implement improvement ideas
• Six Sigma Green Belt

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