Job DescriptionIn this role, you will be a key player on Rheem's Enterprise FP&A team, responsible for providing support to all levels of management in the development and monitoring of budget/forecast and financial performance metrics for the Enterprise Technology organization. You will get to create financial reports, monitor spend accuracy, dive into trend/variance analysis, and leverage your creativity on financial modeling projects and ad hoc analysis.
You will also work closely with IT and ATI functional owners to understand their initiatives, beyond just the financials. You will learn the key expense drivers and the capabilities that each project unlocks for the organization, to provide visibility to management on the value proposition and KPIs and ultimately, to optimize the ROI of our IT investments.
Successful candidates for this role should have experience analyzing spend within an IT department as well as a knowledge of Corporate FP&A and Corporate Finance concepts.
This position will serve our
Enterprise Division, located in
Atlanta, GA (Onsite).
ResponsibilitiesFinancial Planning & Analysis
- Partner with IT and ATI Technology functions in budgeting\forecasting modelling and analyzing departments' performance. Identify and provide guidance on potential opportunities, challenges, and risks, escalating when appropriate.
- Support monthly close of IT and ATI departments: Monitor spend by project/initiative for accuracy and completeness (including variance analysis) and update forecasts in alignment with IT and ATI management. Manage invoice treatment, including accruals, prepaids, and accounting of capital vs. operating expense.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on preparation of recurring internal reporting packages, dashboards, trend analysis, and other ad hoc analysis.
- Perform and coordinate multi-year project-based financial analysis and modeling of IT and ATI costs to support reporting of the operating and capital spend.
Finance Operations
- Assist IT and ATI management in understanding financial and other business data, including Cloud, Network, Desktop, Services, and SaaS/Licensing. Develop models and analyses to drive better decision-making and business performance, identify trends, opportunities, and risks.
- Assist in preparing business cases for capital and operating expenditure requests.
- In partnership with Procurement and IT and ATI operations, review invoices, contracts, etc., to ensure accurate budgeting/forecasting and to optimize cost.
- FINOPS Management and Reporting (Azure, Oracle, etc.):
- Prepare regular and ad-hoc financial reports, including variance analyses, month-over-month comparisons, and dashboards.
- Communicate expense trends and insights to key stakeholders.
- Collaborate on the development of annual cloud expense budgets, considering business growth, technology advancements, and cost optimization goals.
- Monitor and analyze cloud expenses to ensure alignment with budgetary guidelines.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or Economics
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant business experience in corporate financial budgeting and reporting.
- Not intimidated by large, unfamiliar datasets and confident in understanding and editing complicated Excel models.
- Experience in ERP systems, such as Oracle, Hyperion Planning, OneStream, and other EPM solutions.
- Comfortable with accounting and finance fundamentals (e.g., policies & procedures, journal entries, accruals/prepaids/reclasses, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting).
- Basic understanding of the procure to pay process (Quote, SOW, MSA, PO, Invoice, etc.).
- Demonstrates strong communication skills, both written and verbal; ability to interact and influence at various organizational levels.
- Exceptional attention to detail, analytical, and problem-solving/trouble-shooting skills.
- Ability to deliver results with a sense of urgency, accuracy, ownership/accountability, and integrity; successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining a view of the big picture.
Preferred Qualifications:- Knowledge of cloud consumption services, cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google) and their pricing models.
- Previous experience with managing IT/IOT department spend, including IT/IOT operational function knowledge.
- Balanced financial and technical acumen: ability to speak the language of Finance, Business and Technology.
- Knowledge of IT and/or IOT hardware/software assets which include software licenses and maintenance costs.
- Knowledge of IT and/or IOT cost structure used to provide in depth analysis around project costs (hardware, software, contract labor, absorbed labor and core budget costs).
- Experience with IT and/or IOT quick business/financial models/business cases cost estimation and forecasting.
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